Mozilla continues to keep its word on excessively rapid releases with Firefox 10 now out of testing and available to the public. Firefox continues to remain one of the most popular web browsers on both OS X and Windows, alongside others such as Google Chrome and Safari. Firefox 10 is a pretty significant update to the browser, and brings a few new features that make it worth the upgrade.

Fetch is one of the oldest Mac OS applications, dating back to the early days of the Mac OS Classic era, but it’s still one of the best at doing what it does. A full-featured Mac-only file transfer (FTP) client with a clean, simple, easy-to-use interface, Fetch supports both FTP and SFTP, the Internet’s most file transfer protocols on the Internet.

Whether for a business or hobby, having a well-designed website is the key to having people find you and keep coming back. However, not everyone has the desire or aptitude to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, or the creative eye to design how a website should look. That’s where Sandvox 2 from Karelia Software steps in to save the day. Its purpose is to help you easily create web sites with professional designs, integration with social networks, multimedia, and blogs. That’s a pretty tall order, so let’s see if Sandvox 2 delivers.

Apple has released an update to their desktop Safari browser; the new 5.1.2 software brings a couple of bug fixes with some other improvements within the browser itself. The minor update from Apple will address the problems users were experiencing with webpages that were flashing white, as well as any sluggish performance with the Safari more »

A smart mail box will allow you to filter out messages from the unwanted elements (e.g.- your Facebook buddies) while dialing in messages from more relevant sources (say, your boss) without losing the Internet connection which has become for many of us professional lifeblood. It’s an easy way to stop the deluge and get exactly the e-mail you want in one location without any of the stress, fuss or un-friending that you would normally have to deal with in order to get that level of piece and quiet.

So I was delighted to discover Tincta last week. Tincta’s user-interface layout is quite similar to Smultron and Fraise, and it’s available in both a free version (“Always free” the Website pointedly declares) and a feature-enhanced Pro version. Tincta’s developers say the app was written and designed from ground up, that they don’t use any third party code or technologies (besides Mac OS X) and that they keep their codebase small and clean to maintain maximum speed, avoid bugs and add improvements very quickly.

Jaksta for Mac offers simple, configuration-free downloading, saving, and conversion of audio and video from a variety of sources around the web. With Jaksta, you can even capture homemade videos uploaded to Facebook for downloading or sharing whenever and wherever you like. It is now possible to enjoy the wealth of unprotected video and audio content the Web has to offer even when you are not directly connected.

NetMarketShare’s desktop Operating System Market Share metrics for October 2011 show the Mac OS continuing its advance significantly by nearly a half point, Linux up a smidge as well, and Windows off by a little more than half a point, most of which went to Apple’s OS. The NetMarketShare researchers note that Mac usage share generally rises in late summer and fall, this year rising another half-point plus in October to reach 6.45% of worldwide desktop usage.

Opera Reader implements CSS3 extensions that allow content to be split into pages. These pages can be “turned” in a natural manner through gestures rather than point and click, with figures able to be floated to the top and bottom of pages, and the documents having a sense of themselves and their environment; “knowing” about documents above, below and on the sides. Learn how you can paginate common HTML files with just a few lines of CSS.

Although Firefox 6 was released just last month, Mozilla has been working hard on the next major update, and today marks its official public release. Firefox 7 brings memory and engine improvements to make it faster and more reliable than ever, improving memory handling to use 50% less memory when addressing memory leaks, crashes, and general instability when multiple tabs are open.