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Firefox Mouse Gestures Plugin: Click and drag a mouse button to navigate web pages.

Go to the link above and click on the "Install Now" button in the middle of the page. It will install the plugin, and when it tells you to restart, go ahead, your session will be saved on restart.

If you use Windows or Linux, this is as far as you need to go.

On a Mac, do this to make it work: Tools Menu -> Add-ons -> (In the new window) Mouse Gestures -> Preferences

I have been trying to sit down to write this article for a while, but I never seem to have the time. I had put together some links while researching that were pretty good, so I figured I would publish them anyway so interested people would have somewhere to start from.

Amazon.com, while building a book selling machine, has put together a pretty extensive set of cloud computing services. This article is meant to give you a brief overview of a few of their services and give you a starting point if you are interested in researching this technology.

I think Windows release of Vista is a turning point in the desktop environment landscape. People are going to start looking for alternatives instead of trying to relearn how to use their computer, all the while dealing with the fact that it is slower than it ever was.

With many new types of media available online, the newspaper industry has been loosing traction and are being forced to downsize. Is this just an inevitable chain of events due to the onset of the information age, or do newspapers still hold a valuable market and just need to adjust their thinking? I think that the newspaper industry has a solid product and will continue to have a market, but I feel that their market is changing and they need to reevaluate their approach to the editorial consumer.

I recently attended the Mesh 2007 Conference in Toronto with many notable keynotes and guests. One of the more interesting presentations I attended was 'The Web and Philanthropy'. It was a conversation led by Rob Hyndman with Tom Williams and Austin Hill, two people who are doing a lot to facilitate philanthropy online.

If your company is looking to update your online feature set, but don't have the technical expertise to do it your self, there are a lot of new options that are tailored just for you. The price tag associated with getting a professional looking and feature complete website online has always been a major deterrent. If your company does not have a technical department up for the challenge, it can be difficult to put together a manageable solution that suits your needs and does not cost a fortune.

Juan Rodriguez wrote an article in the Montreal Gazette titled the 'Web of Mediocrity' which I found somewhat obtuse. Here is my response to that article.
(The article is only available online for paying members, so you will have had to have read it in paper form for proper context...)

I promised to come back and visit the community aspect of Ubuntu because I feel that it is an underrated feature of this OS. I'm sure most of you have had an experience where you are trying to do something with Windows and you just cant seem to figure it out. I have been in that situation many times and I have always been kind of discouraged with the amount of support that I can get. Its not that the answers are not out there, because for the most part they are, but you can only really rely on google to find them.

I have been working with Ubuntu exclusively for the last 2 years. I switched because I was sure there was something better than Windows out there and I was willing to try to find it. It has been one of the most satisfying changes in my desktop experience since I can remember. I am going to have a hard time to give you a tangible feeling for what I mean, but in this post I will do my best.

I started working with web based development and design when I was 16. I started out working mainly with graphic design and then moving more towards web development as I got closer to heading off to university.