The Al l Things D conference is going on right now and one of the most interesting things to come from it was when Walt Mossburg was interviewing Jeff Bezos, founder, president, and chief executive offer of Amazon.com. Bezos announced that within the next couple of weeks, Amazon will be launching a streaming movie service that users will pay for.

Some of you may remember about a year ago at this time (April 23rd to be exact), we experienced our very first hard drive crash on our server. At the time we had hoped it would be the last time we needed to put our trusty back-ups to good use, but unfortunately, as luck would have it, it wasn't. Early this morning we experienced hard drive failure and so our host had to set us up with a new server.

I've said it before, but I'm always amazed at what Tony Ruscoe is able to dig up about Google from snooping around. This time around while he was snooping on one of Google's experimental sites, he found that it looks as though Google is working on Macros for Google Spreadsheets.

Back in early April this year we wrote about a new service from Google called Google App Engine. At the time we questioned whether it would Compete with Amazon's S3 service because the two are similar in the fact that they open their infrastructure to developers so that they can focus on developing.

Last night at the D6 conference both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer sat down together for an interview. We've got two highlight videos from the conference below, and there were actually some interesting things brought up. What's even more surprising is that there were some jokes being thrown around.

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).

Keyboard shortcuts step aside! Mouse gestures have been around for quite some time, and are often used as a way to quickly issue commands. One of the places that these are used the most is in the web browser, and that's because a lot of repetitive actions are performed there. Just think about how many times each day you click the back or refresh buttons.