NetMarketShare’s desktop Operating System Market Share metrics for December 2011 show the Mac OS slipping back another tenth of a point on the month, with Windows posting exactly the same share for two consecutive months. Linux made another proportionally significant gain, continuing its recent positive streak.

At one time, it was an amazing feat for Macs and PCs to play with each other for multiplayer games. Now, Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles will bring together players with mobile devices—both Android and iOS—with those on Macs and PCs for the first 3D MMO in gaming history. In Star Legends, human privateers travel to the UCS Blackstar, a massive colony ship, to answer the call of fame and fortune.

Many Internet users just use the default Web browser that came installed with their computer operating system. Others seem to spend a fair bit of time and mental effort deciding which alternative browser they’ll use instead. Personally, I can’t imagine limiting myself to just one, or even one primary web browser.

Extensions developer and Mac OS Hints contributor canisbos explains how to reveal a forgotten password in a password field on a web page in Safari or Chrome by changing its rendering from asterisks or bullets to standard text characters using the browser’s web inspector. And if the manual method sounds too much like work, you can always try ShowPass for Safari.

It’s official (even across the pond); Google is expanding the Chrome brand beyond a browser and creating the Chrome OS. According to the Google Blog, the OS is founded on a three S strategy: speed, simplicity and security. In an era of operating systems whose roots stretch all the way back to time shared mainframes, it is refreshing to see someone building an OS based on current needs rather than supporting legacy applications.

There was an interesting article over at TG Daily recently, titled, “Browser wars: When will the madness end?” As you can likely guess from the title, the author assumes that the cage match currently underway between Safari, Google’s Chrome, Firefox, and IE is a bad thing. But aren’t we taught that competition is a good thing? In this case, competition is good—vital, even, if the Internet is to keep growing.

For those of you eagerly awaiting Google’s Chrome—a new, extremely popular browser for Windows—to make its way to the Mac or Linux, hold on. According to Brian Rakowski, Chrome’s product manager, he expects and hopes that the Mac and Linux version will be ready by half way through this year. Now that Chrome for Windows has been updated to contain almost all of the features requested (such as extensions), they can focus their energy on expanding it.

When Google Chrome Beta 1 was released earlier this week, Mac users were shocked by the fact that it was Windows-only. Google, with a reputation for creating their apps for all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), had not yet released a Mac version of their web browser. In an interview with BoomTown’s Kara Swisher, Sergey Brin said “I know, I know, it’s embarrassing.” He was unable to provide a date for the release of the Mac OS X version of Chrome, but did mention he is “asking every day” and hopes “it’ll be a matter of months.”

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