I’m a Web browser junkie, and I usually have at least four different browsers up and running on my Mac, each with multiple tabs open and often two or more windows-full on the go, and in its own dedicated Space (OS X 10.6) for easy access and switching. Unfortunately, the iOS doesn’t support Spaces, or more »

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.

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 »

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.

Just a few days ago, BigBoss had released its SemiTether package on Cydia, which is basically a tweak that allows iDevice owners running iOS 5 who have performed a tethered jailbreak to be able to reboot and use their iDevice (minus any unofficial third-party apps, tweaks, and themes) without having to boot tethered using a Mac or PC. v0.9.1 offers increased stability along with a bunch of fixes and new features.

NetMarketShare’s desktop operating system market share metrics for September 2011 show the Mac OS up significantly by more than a third of a point, Linux up a smidge as well, and Windows off by roughly a third of a point, most of which went to Apple’s OS. In the Mobile/Tablet category, iOS gained another point and a half of share, JavaME was still in second-place but down more than two points, and Android gained just over a quarter point.

Sleipnizer gets its name from a Japanese browser known as Sleipnir, and the tweak simply integrates with Safari, adding two great features: OpenTabBG+ allows users to open a new web page in the background without any interruptions by just holding down their finger on a link, and 4 gestures performs up to 18 actions such as going back and forward a page and opening and closing tabs.

July 2011′s NetMarketShare Operating System Market Share metrics for the significant players show Windows’ share slipping nearly seven-tenths of a percentage point, continuing its slow downward spiral, albeit still representing the vast majority of OS installs. The Mac OS gained nearly half a point on the month.

Erica Sadun of TUAW has discovered a neat trick for browsing the Mac App Store from within Safari by spoofing cURL with the Mac App Store user agent in order to access its data, using Terminal in OS X. In order to try this trick out for yourself, you’ll need to do the following within Terminal…

Unlike with previous versions of Opera Mini for iOS, it seems the developers are hoping to keep the latest one more up-to-date. Opera Mini is a highly favored third-party browser, mostly because of its ability to tweak performance and compress web pages through Opera’s servers in order to save data and speed up loading time. The initial release of Opera Mini 6.0 offered a lot for iDevices, and the latest 6.0.1 update includes the following changes…