For those of you looking for a free alternative to PowerPoint or Keynote, look no further than 280 Slides. Started by two former Apple employees and backed by Y Combinator, it does an excellent job of mimicking those desktop applications, online. They use Javascript instead of Flash, which makes the whole experience even more impressive. While it won’t solve the problem of having to sit through excruciating Power Point presentations, at least it’s free.

We’ve reported on Last.FM quite a bit here on the Free Line- after all, it lets you stream any music you want to hear for as much you would like. But that is all about to change. Warner Music has pulled the plug on letting Last.FM stream their artist’s music, which will cut down on a large amount of free songs that you can tap your toes to. No more free Neil Young or Death Cab for Cutie. Bad form Warner. That’s not the way to move the freeline.

Of course, some people get their music in less than legal ways, using programs like BitTorrent or BitComet. AT&T has officially come out and said that have never and will never cut down on bandwidth for people using BitTorrent technology. They say that it’s just not a part of their philosophy. They have, however, thought about doing something similar to what Time Warner Cable is doing for it’s internet offering- and that’s charging people per gigabyte of bandwidth.

Of course, if they do charge for bandwidth, this could be a big problem for people using sites like Box.net to store their files. Box.net is an online file storage site that lets you upload any file you want, and also edit documents and photos online. A cool tool, and I hate to see people use it less just because they will get charged more by their internet company for using it. Especially since Box.net is completely free.

And if you’re a Wikipedia addict (and who isn’t?), you should get a kick out of Six Degrees of Wikipedia. It’s a game where you put in two subjects, and see how many clicks it would take to get from one to the other. How far is it to get from Gatorade to Genghis Kahn? Just three. A fun and free way to waste some extra time.

MySpace plans on pushing the Free Line by offering, (and I quote), “all the music in the world” for free.

YouTube rolled out a beta release of its three newest features, which they refer to as improvements in the overall management of your messages, contacts, and videos.

AT&T has decided to enter into the Web Browser market by crafting it’s own offering: Pogo—in private beta now.

And finally, Popular Mechanics has an interesting interview online with Web search guru, Udi Manber.

We’ve got a link that promises to help you get the most out of MuxTape. And when you are done reading the article, you can send in your favorite MuxTapes and they’ll add them to their list of favorites.

MixWit is another online MixTape program. MixWit’s interface is snazzier and easier to use than MuxTapes, and uses streaming online music.

Here is a link to the top 15 power user plugins for WordPress.

Adobe Lightroom’s 2.0 beta available for free download. Even though Lightroom is offline, it is available for both Mac and PC. It contains more power than Express, and can give any digital hobbyist the tools they need for great photographs.

Fans of the Free Line will remember a rumor we reported awhile ago about talks between MySpace and Music studios for creating a music store and free online streaming music videos in MySpace. Looks like the rumors have finally become official, and MySpace Music will launch sometime next year.

Google has always been a fan of pranks, ones that usually only uber geeks think are funny. But today, we have a link to the top 17 hidden gems and jokes that Google has scattered across the web — and I’m sure anyone will enjoy these.

Mozilla announced that FireFox 3 is finally ready for public consumption. Until now they have cautioned users to stay away from FireFox 3’s beta, claiming that it was not ready for use and to wait until June for the official, final release. Now, they’re telling us the latest FireFox is ready to use — stable, fast and free of memory leaks.

Ebay has layed off 125 of its workers in both the US and Europe during its massive reorganization, in a move to centralize customer support and other administrative functions. Still going strong, the auction giant plans on hiring more workers within the next year.

And last but not least, Apple Insider says that Apple is finally in talks with music companies over their own music subscription service. Until, Steve Jobs, who sells music on iTunes, has dissed the idea as only “renting music” but now the Nokia/Universal deal (called “Comes with Music“) — allows Nokia cell phone users to download as much Universal’s library as they want – and keep it at the end of the period. Currently Real Music and Napster are the only providers with subscription services – after Yahoo Music dropped its subscriptions earlier this year. Now, it looks like Apple may be next to offer all-you-can-eat music for a flat monthly rate. That’s big news – and by the way, if you’re on iTunes check out the Free Line Report podcast. It’s in the Business section, under Management and Marketing.

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你知道，Google可是个恶作剧的行家，比如那些复活节彩蛋，和那些隐藏在各个程序中的小秘密——很多玩家都觉得非常有趣。今天，我们找到了17个Google隐藏在网络上的宝物和玩笑。一定要看一下！

Mozilla宣布火狐3浏览器终于可以供大家使用了。以前他们总是警告用户不要使用火狐3测试版，声明说现在还不成熟请耐心等待今年六月份的最终版。现在，他们告诉我们最新版本的火狐可以使用了，稳定，迅速而且无内存泄露。

Ebay刚刚因为结构重组在美国和欧洲解雇了125名员工，此举是为了加强客户服务和其它管理功能。 这个还在持续增长的拍卖巨人计划在明年招入更多的员工。

最后，苹果的内部人士说它们终于和音乐公司展开了关于它们自己的音乐订阅服务的对话。其实，Steve Jobs，这个通过iTunes卖音乐的人，最初只是冒出了“出租音乐”的想法，现在却做成了诺基亚/环球的这项服务（叫做随音乐而来）－－它允许诺基亚的手机用户随意下载环球公司发行的音乐，直到订阅期截止。目前Real Music和Napster是唯一两家提供音乐订阅的公司，而雅虎在去年早期放弃了类似的业务。现在，看起来苹果将成为下一个月租无限量下载音乐的服务商。这可是大新闻，顺便说一句，如果使用iTunes的别忘了关注Free Line Report的广播节目。

The popular, free file backup based on Gmail, called G-Archiver, has been found storing user’s gmail addresses passwords. The creator of G-Archiver claimed that it was only debugging code that he had left in on accident, and has taken down the application so that no one else can download it. It’s suggested that if you have used G-Archiver in the past, you will need to change your password as soon as possible.

The non-profit organization Takes All Types has worked together with the Red Cross to create a Facebook application to report on blood shortages. If you are a blood donor who wishes to participate, you simply install the application, give it your blood type and address and it will notify you when there is a shortage of your blood type.

MySpace is talking with major music labels to start MySpace Music. So far it has support of some major music companies, but not the largest label- Universal. They plan on going ahead without Universals support, hoping they can win it back later.

MyLoki is a new webservice from the folks who brought us SkyHook, that nifty application that gets your GPS coordinates for your iPhone. MyLoki is a free toolbar for your web browser of choice. If you’re near a wireless hotspot, it simply triangulates your location and then gives you a map you can embed on your blog, giving your location in real time.

Dropbox officially moves into private beta this week, giving out 5gb of free storage. Dropbox is an easy to use application to back up your files across the web and share it with coworkers, or just access them from anywhere you have internet access. The true benefit to Dropbox is its ease of use- a simple right-click on a file and you can share it or back it up.

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那个热门的基于Gmail的免费文件备份软件G-Archiver，最近被指有私藏用户Gmail密码的嫌疑。G-Archiver的编写者说那只不过是段用来查找程序错误的代码，并且不再在网上提供该程序的下载。虽然如此还是建议大家如果以前使用过G-Archiver，你最好还是尽快把密码换掉。

非盈利组织Take all types与红十字合做推出了一个Facebook程序用来提供供血资源。如果你想参与鲜血活动，只要安装一个小程序，输入你的血腥跟地址信息，它就会在别人急需你的血型的时候联系到你。很不错。

MySpace正在与大的音乐公司商谈计划推出MySpace Music。目前它已经取得很多主流的音乐公司的支持，但没有最大的，比如环球。他们正计划扩大这一业务，在没有环球的支持下希望他们取得进展。

MyLoki 是一个由SkyHook的原班人马制作的全新网站，后者是一个为iPhone提供GPS服务的软件。MyLoki则是一款免费的浏览器工具条。如果你在一个无线热点附近，它就会自动测算你的位置然后你就可以把你所在位置的地图放在博客里面与别人共享。不知道你为什么有人想在网上做这样的事情，我相信他们马上会推出备份服务，这样你就可以保留所有你到过的地方并告诉你在那里待了多久。

Dropbox本周正式进入了内测阶段，并提供5G的存储空间。Dropbox是一个提供网络免费存储空间和文件共享服务的应用程序，同时也通过基于网页的程序服务。Dropbox最大的优点就在于它的易用性，只要轻点一个右键你就可以轻松的备份或是分享。

QTRax is a new company that offers free legal file sharing for music with ads. They have backing from major labels, and will launch with somewhere between 20 million and 30 million copyrighted tracks. (Did I mention it was legal?)

Widgetize is a new, free web app that allows you to “widgetize” any site with an RSS Feed. This allows you to embed any other website’s feed into your blog, and it has full CSS support, so it fits nice and snugly into your current web design.

In a smart but inevitable move, Facebook made its little applications available on any website. All it takes is cutting and pasting some javascript, and you can place a Facebook app anywhere.

The Colour Lovers website recently released a free, advanced DHTML color picker that can be placed on any website. They’ll even host the files that are created for whatever color you make with this handy little application.

Following in Google’s footsteps, YouTube has streamlined its site and interface to work more easily with mobile phones. You can now access your YouTube account on the go, interact with the community, upload videos within minutes and browse many more videos than before, all for from your mobile phone.