Is participating in social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook just a “phase” that people seem to go through? A new video by user “Super Josh” on Current.com claims just that. In his satirical animated short “Networking Wars,” cartoon representatives of MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, and Second Life vie for the attention of an average user. Very funny, and perhaps, very true.

Sometimes, running a brand new, top-of-the-line operating system isn’t possible. Systems made to run Windows 2000, for example, will not be able to properly support Firefox 3.0, as one of our commenters has already figured out. But fear not. Don’t let those old legacy systems die in the basement. Get WattOS instead. Based on Ubuntu Linux, WattOS is designed to get the best out of older, more “time tested” machines. It can do almost anything that its bigger brother can do, just in a smaller package. WattOS is completely free to use and is covered under the GNU public license.

Moving to the world of telecommunication devices for a moment, there’s TokBox. Powered by Adobe’s innovative “Air” development platform, TokBox is a Skype-esque way to keep in touch with family and friends. TokBox can be used from a variety of diverse places, from their website to Facebook. While the little upstart might not have the features of Skype at the moment, it is definitely one program to keep your eye on.

Those who own an iPhone are no doubt familiar with Apple’s MobileMe, a handy little service that syncs up all of your media devices. If you like the idea of everything working together, but don’t think that perfect harmony is worth $100, give Mail2Web LIVE a try. Mail2Web does everything that MobileMe does, from playing nice with your Blackberry to updating Outlook on your PC, only it’s free. And the kicker? The service is built upon Microsoft’s Hosted Exchange Platform. So give Mail2Web LIVE a try. We promise not to tell Steve Jobs.

These days, staying mobile doesn’t mean that you have to leave your social networking habits at home. For example, check out Moblog. It works kind of like Twitter, except it allows you to post pictures and video you’ve taken with your phone as well as text. And the best part? The Moblog team builds your private space for you. All you need to do is send a text message. Moblog makes networking on the road simple and easy.

The new iTunes store was launched last Thursday, and with it came all of the new portable applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Out of the roughly 550 applications hat have been released, 125 of those applications are completely free.

And of course, the best way to choose what to install on your new iPhone is by seeing it in action. Tech blog TechCrunch has a fantastic feature showing off eight of the new apps.

Our friends at Lifehacker a nice little piece detailing the best free applications the iPhone has to offer.

And it just wouldn’t be the Free Line if we didn’t put our two cents into it as well. So without further adieu, we give you the Free Line’s top five free applications for the iPhone.

Remote: Control both iTunes and Apple TV using your iPhone. Simple idea, but it’s executed well.

Pandora: Internet radio has invaded the iPhone. Not only does Pandora stream your favorite music, it actually customizes its play list based on your preferences. Perfect for those who want to listen to something different, yet don’t want to shell out the $12.95 a month for satellite radio.

Mobile News Network: Powered by the Associated Press, the Mobile News Network allows you to keep up with the latest goings on in the world around us. Easy to use and a wealth of proven, credible sources, all for free. Can’t beat that.

SpeechCloud: A helpful little tool that adds voice dialing. Simple? Of course. Not everything great has to be complicated.

Wordpress: The sheer power of blogging has hit the iPhone. Keep in touch even when you’re away from your computer. Fun and useful… seems to be Wordpress’ M.O., doesn’t it?

欢迎来到免费帮的iPhone专辑。首先，新的iTunes商店上周四上线了，随之而来的是为iPhone和iPod touch设计的全新手机程序。到目前为止有超过550个程序发布，`这个数字也超越了以往任何一个新上线的系统。乔布斯也称这是他职业生涯最重要的产品发布。我们也非常欣慰的告诉大家乔布斯深喑免费之道，因为当中的125个程序，相当于全部的25%，是完全免费的。当然，在那么多免费的程序中挑出来一些值得安装的也不是件容易的事。所以我们为大家献上最热门的iPhone程序列表。我们的最爱？是那个可以把你的iPhone变成iTunes和Apple TV遥控器的程序。加油啊乔布斯，我们期待着更多的免费程序。另一个超牛又免费的程序就是新的iPhone版的潘多拉。·潘多拉是一个免费的在线音乐试听网站，并有独特的根据用户喜好提供的推荐系统。iPhone版的潘多拉完全免费，而且它几乎也是你能在网上找到的最好的音乐试听网站了。它的基面完美的整合了iPhone的特点，几乎与原生的iTunes界面无异。不过当然了，判断一个新的程序最好的办法就是亲自去体验它。· TechCrunch上周五发布了一份特别的报道给程序开发者提供了一个展示的舞台·。网站的链接就在FreeLineReport.com。最后，那些特别想随时随地记录生活的Wordpress玩家注意了，·看一下最新的iPhone版的Wordpress。没错，现在不论在什么地方你都可以登陆wordpress并发布博客了！

At the Free Line, we love product launches, because it’s a great way to get free stuff. Plus, if you’re an internet marketer, there’s nothing like selling a few million dollars in an hour to keep the lights on in your business. At StomperNet we’ve done that a few times now and it’s fun. Plus, it lets us pay for the best faculty of world class internet marketing experts ever assembled. And yesterday, StomperNet CEO, Andy Jenkins released a new free video — all about using video to sell more online. It’s 45 minutes long and you won’t want to miss it.  It’s a behind the scenes Director’s commentary on one of the most successful videos StomperNet ever produced. And of course, it’s free.

Speaking of product launches and free stuff, the the smoke has now cleared and Mozilla’s Firefox 3 Download Day has been a roaring success. Within the first hour of the launch the numbers zoomed past 1 million downloads. Which is amazing, considering the fact that the servers kept going up and down, making it hard for most people to participate. If you were a part of download day - congratulations! You’ve been a part of history.

A majority of plugins don’t work with the new version of the browser, so before you get frustrated, check out this link that lists up to date plugin compatibility for FireFox 3. If your favorite plugin or theme isn’t listed, don’t worry. We’ve also got a tutorial that shows you how to get past that pesky problem with only a few clicks of the mouse and get any of your old plugins working fine.

Now that you’ve got your bright and shiny new version of FireFox, you might wander what new power is under the hood that you’re not taking advantage of yet. We’ve got a link that can show you some little known features that can really make things shine. My favorite? Being able to use Gmail as the default email program in FireFox without using a plugin. Sweet.

And to celebrate the occasion of FireFox Version 3, the folks at Microsoft sent them a cake. A big cake with a giant blue E, the trademark symbol of Internet Explorer. The IE team did the same thing for the release of FireFox 2, so it looks like this might become a tradition of sorts between the two rival companies. So far, we have no idea how good the cake tastes, or whether it was vanilla or chocolate.  But it sure looked delicious.

Speaking of Internet Explorer, we’re starting to get some information about Internet Explorer 8, the new version that’s on the horizon. Due to complaints across the web, IE 8 will be 100% standards compliant, right out of the box. What does this mean? It means a lot of websites need to stop slacking and get things up and running using proper web code, or else it might not work in Internet Explorer. What’s so important about being Standards Complient?  Until now, people had to write special code just to get a website to look the same in Internet Explorer as it did in FireFox and Opera.  Once IE8 goes live, new websites will be easier to create an mantain.

In the next few weeks MySpace users should expect the ability to quickly and easily share videos, profile details and images to web sites operated by Yahoo, Ebay and others, including websites like Photobucket and Twitter.

OpenOffice 3.0 is now ready for public beta testing. We have some visual changes- new and better icons, a pretty start screen, as well as some pretty heavy changes under the hood. You can expect a better install process for Mac machines with complete look and feel that jives with other aqua apps.

Facebook finally reached an agreement with the attorney generals of 49 states and the District of Columbia concerning stricter safety standards. Facebook pledged to develop age verification technology in addition send warnings to anyone under 18 giving out their own personal information as well as restrict a vast majority of what they can do on the website.

Facebook plans on lifting that cumbersome 5,000 friends limit in the near future. Different reasons for the limit have been bandied about for keeping the upper limit on friends to five thousand, but the real reason is scalability issues.

FullFillment Central is giving away 100 free full color flyers. That’s right- free. All you need to do is pay a small shipping and handling fee to get them delivered to anywhere in the US. A great example of pushing the Free Line.

Internet Marketing Sweetie has a new free eBook that gives you fifty different ways to market online.

Right after Google allowed programmers to upload programs on Google’s servers using the App Engine Technology, TechCrunch leapt right in and tested the waters.

Dr. Ralph Wilson, author of one of the longest running Internet marketing newsletters, released a new issue of his free newsletter, Web Marketing Today.

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Internet Marketing Sweetie, 是一个帮助你用非残忍手段在残忍的营销世界中竞争的博客，它最近在一本新的免费电子书提供了55种在线营销方法。在看了书之后，你也许也会对她提供的免费 在线营销课程感兴趣。它甚至包含超过1小时的音频和一本70页的手册来帮助你学习在线营销的技巧。

当Google允许程序员们把 程序放在Google的服务器上测试他们的程序引擎之后，TechCrunch马上就加入并测试了自己的程序。基本上而言这个程序是一个创业版的Hot or not。他们的评价是正面的 — 他们编写了一个简单的小程序放了上去运行起来也很快。

Ralph Wilson博士，这名专门发表长篇网络营销实事分析的作者，刚刚发布了他最新新的一期分析，叫做今日网络营销。在这一期中你可以了解网站如何通过视频进 行营销，和如何利用名人进行营销。和以往一样这篇东西的链接就在FreeLineReport.com。我是Brad Fallon，这期就到这里了，明天我会在纽约。不过那里应该有网络，所以别担心——我们FreeLine会在这里等你。

Microsoft Labs debuted PhotoSynth in a jaw dropping demo at the TED conference. This software, set to revolutionize the way we look at digital photos, can take collections of images (from Flickr or any other online source) and then project it into 3D space. You have to see this to believe it! And of course, you can do so for free. Beta testing is open to the public, all you need to do is visit the Photosynth page, install the web browser plugin, and then prepare to be amazed.

In other digital photo news Facebook had a serious snafu with their latest privacy update. It turns out, photos that users uploaded to the social network they thought were marked private really weren’t, and a small bug allowed any hacker to get around the security measures. It didn’t take long to fix this problem- the minute Facebook found out they had it fixed within the hour.

And thanks to a tip from Oliver Taco in the comments on the Free Line Report website, we learned that the maker of the cool tool Digg Friend Finder have released several more SEO based web tools, including a downloadable list of social networking sites and a Yahoo Store SEO tool. Thanks, Oliver!

Google rolled out a new feature to it’s popular search platform-search within a search. Which allows you to search entirely within a site that your first search brings up, allowing you a faster access to Google’s already powerful site search tool.

In more Google news, the web giant is now petitioning for the “white space” spectrum of Television airwaves. It seems that this might’ve been the target all along in the FCC auction. What does Google plan to do it with these radio waves? Use it for web access, of course. They call it WiFi on steroids, and all ready have the backing of Microsoft and Intel.

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微软实验室在TED会议上初次展示的PhotoSynth震惊四座。这个革命性的软件改了我们浏览数字相片的方式，它可以把从Flickr等网站搜集来的图片投射成一个三维空间。你必须亲眼目睹才会相信！而当然，它完全免费。测试版对公众是开放的，你只要访问Photosynth的主页，安装一个浏览器插件，然后准备好吃惊吧。

有关数码相片的另一则新闻，Facebook最新的隐私问题带来了很大的反响。原因是有些用户发现被他们标记为隐私的照片被没有起到作用，而且黑客也可以通过一个小的bug轻松突破安全设置。不过很快这个问题就被解决了——事实上他们在发现问题的第一个小时就进行了修复。

另外多亏了Oliver Taco在我们网站上的评论，我们得知Digg Friend Finder的制作者又推出了几款的SEO网络工具，包括一个可以下载的社交网络站点列表和一个Yahoo商店SEO工具。多谢了，Oliver！

Google被添加了一个最新的特性，它将允许你进行二次搜索。现在你可以对第一次搜索的结果进行整站搜索，这也为功能强大的Google站内搜索提供了一个更快捷的方式。

另外一则Google新闻，这个网络巨人正在申请电视转播频率的“白光波段”，看起来同FCC竞拍一样这这也是他们的目标之一。Google打算用这些无线频率做什么呢？当然是用在网络访问上。他们把它叫做“WiFi on steroids”，而且已经得到了微软和因特尔的支持。

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Hot or Not has sold for over $20 million dollars to the Canadian company Avid Life Media.  The original cofounders, James Hong and Jim Young are stepping down after the acquisition and will no longer be involved with the web phenomena they had originally created in 2000 as a joke. When asked what he’s going to do next, James Hong differentiated himself from all the Type A workaholics in Silicon Valley. Quote:  “I have no problem sitting doing nothing at all.” 

For all you Mac users out there that have been dissatisfied over the new release of OS X  Leopard, feel free to cheer loudly after downloading the latest update.  This new update addresses all the current complaints that users have been making vocal through blogs and twitter channels, and shows that Apple really does listen to its customers.

Firefox 3 is nearing completion and a new public beta is now available, fixing some security problems and speed problems in the old beta releases.  I’ve been using this version for the better part of a day now, and it is impressive!  It’s fast, and has a cool new way for bookmarking your favorite sites.  Well worth checking out. (Warning: None of your plugins will work.)

Wired magazine has an interesting article up- going over the history of Google’s colorful logo. They even include different iterations of the logo through time, showing that its powerful simplicity was done on purpose.

Want to listen to your music on any computer in your house?  Jukefly is a handy little app that will let you do just that, and it’s completely free.  All you need to do is download a small application, and it will turn any Windows machine into a web based streaming JukeBox.