With Steve Job's announcement of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard during the recently concluded Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), people are already anticipating the next major version of the Mac operating system. German website Apfeltalk was able to get its hands on a couple of screenshots, showing off the new look of the OS. You can view the images in our full article after the jump.

"We've never ever at Mozilla said that we care about Firefox market share at the expense of our more important goal: to keep the web open and a public resource. The web belongs to people, not companies." These were the words of Mozilla's COO John Lilly in a recent blog post of his. What prompted this statement though, is the real story.

For those who have been keeping up with the WWDC, Steve Jobs delivered his keynote speech and unveiled Safari for Windows. Now, this is a big thing because the Apple iPhone will be running web applications, and this is the manner that it will be interfacing with the PC. The simple fact that PC users will be getting another browser option for their systems is really great. So what's the problem?
 
Steve Jobs presented the way he wanted the market to look eventually and it showed a view that's, as Lilly put it, "out-of-date, corporate-controlled, duopoly-oriented, not-the-web thinking." A duopoly (a market controlled by two organizations) cuts out everyone else and leaves everyone at the mercy of the companies running it. Everyone saw the ruckus that was caused with the Microsoft anti-trust issue, adding in another big company to control the rest of the market may not be in the public's interest.

Lilly may have a point with this although there is no arguing Apple's success. It may precisely be that outlook that's driving them to the top. Still, we have to consider the consequences of a possible duopoly on the net and how it will affect the internet community as a whole. If you want to read the entire blog post, be sure to click on our read link. Keep checking back here for more updates on this issue.

After fifteen months, the Camino Project has finally unveiled Camino 1.5. This is the latest and most substantial update to their Camino 1.0 web browser.

Some of the new features in Camino 1.5 include a built-in Mac OS X Spellchecker that works on every text field and added support for session saving. With the latter, Camino can now automatically load whatever websites you were visiting when you quit or when you suffer a crash.

RSS feed detection has also been added to the Camino browser. In Camino 1.5, an icon will appear on the location bar when a feed is found. Clicking on that icon and selecting a feed will send the selected feed straight to the user's default feed reader. Tabbed browsing has also been improved with new tooltips and navigation features.

Camino 1.5 runs on Mozilla's popular Gecko 1.8.1 rendering engine, the same engine used by Firefox 2. The browser is available as is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.

The people behind Joost, which has been formerly known as "The Venice Project", have just recently announced that a beta version of Joost for Mac Intel is now available.

Thanks to the work done by the Client team for the Windows version as well as the cross-platform power of Mozilla, Mac users can now enjoy a version of Joost that "looks very much like Joost for Windows, while behaving very much like a Mac application." The Joost FAQ notes, though, that while the application works fine under Bootcamp, it doesn't work under Parallels yet. Joost needs to access the GPU for some of its operations, and Parallels does not support that at the moment.

If you want to try it out for yourself, you can still sign up for beta testing by clicking on the "via" link below. Remember, the whole thing's still in beta, so be on the lookout for bugs. The devs are going to be giving out t-shirts to those who submit the best bug reports, so keep your eyes peeled.

  

Thanks to the Hawk Wings blog, we found out about a new email client OS X users can try out. It's called Correo and, according to its creator Nick Kreeger, it "blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application."

Correo's currently pretty basic, but it does give offer some viewing options, from a "mail.app" styled layout to an Outlook-like version, as you can see from the above pictures. The application also supports multiple POP and IMAP accounts, so a family of Mac users can pick this up just as easily for their own personal use.

Kreeger mentions adding more functions in the future, from a plugin capability to let people make their own customizable program extensions, to address book support, one feature almost every full-fledged mail program has these days, even if you don't actually use it. The source link has more information on the application, along with the program's source code and its own wiki. Give it a try and see if it fits your tastes.

Features:

• Create multiple mail accounts (POP and IMAP)
• Reply, Forward, and write new messages (via SMTP)
• Ability to setup interface for 2 column split view or 3 column view

Mac users have been longing for a new browser, something a bit out of the ordinary. The current high flyers in the Mac browser business are of course the likes of Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Flock. Now it's time for something new, and that's where the Shiira 2.0 Browser comes in. Shiira 2.0 is currently a Beta release and so is not technically a full release yet, but of course we are here to give you a run-down on the new kid on the Mac browser market. We featured Shiira 2.0 alpha way back in July and you may want to compare that to what we have now - there have been huge improvements!

Here's a list of what Shiira 2.0 Beta features:

• A Nice design - Shiira has been designed with practicality in mind, and has everything in the right places.

• Full screen browsing - This allows you to see everything a website has to offer at the perfect resolution for your monitor. No more annoying toolbars or scroll bars to get in your way, just you, the website and your Shiira.

The rest of the article awaits after the jump!

Download: [Shiira 2.0 Beta]

According to Market Share, Apple Computer's Safari browser is continuing to fight it's way through the Internet browser arena, taking on the likes of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer to rise by 46% year-over-year. Safari remains the third most popular browser with Internet Explorer topping the charts and Firefox taking second place but the statistics are much in Safari's favor.

In August 2005, Safari's market share was 2.20 percent.  In August 2006, its market share comes in at 3.21 percent.  The rise from 2.20 to 3.21 represents a year-over-year growth of 46 percent for the month of August.  In July 2006, Safari had a 3.18 percent market share and experienced a 0.94 percent increase in just one month. Of course, as you will know the Safari browser is only available on Mac OS X, leading some critics to believe that Safari's market share is directly related to an increase in Mac sales.

Of course, Mac sales have increased, particularly after the integration of Intel-chips into Macs but what critics don't take into account are those who have switched from Firefox and Internet Explorer (especially after Microsoft stopped updating IE for Macs) to Safari as the browser has improved. Whatever the reason, Safari's market share is likely to increase again as browser developers feel the full-force of the Intel Mac.

We all know that most of us keep at least two different email accounts - one for work and one for personal use, then there's others who also keep emails for groups, community newsletters, website, for stalking, and so on and so forth. We also all know how tedious it can be to have to log in to each of these accounts separately. That was then. Now, say hello to the ability to access all your mail, all at once.

This is made possible by, first and foremost, having the WebMail extension installed in your system. This extension integrates website-based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird, and allows Thunderbird to download and to send emails using the website. The extension is known to be slick, as itÂ?s just a case of downloading the core package plus the package for the particular service youÂ?re using, installing them, restarting Thunderbird, and then setting up the account.

To get started, you will need to install WebMail first and at least one of its optional components. Once WebMail is up and running, the next thing to check for is if the the status of the enabled servers are "running". This can be viewed in the Options menu. This is also the menu that should display the list of supported domains.

From there, you can move to creating a POP account by going to the main menu and opting to create a new account. You may then set your name and email address in the Identity Page. Then, just enter the appropriate server information and the domain name, follow the instructions until you reach "Finish", and you're all set!

Support is currently available for Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, Libero, Lycos, AOL and Mail.com accounts.

The Camino 1.0.2 web browser has recently been released by the Camino Project. Camino, with its web-browsing capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine, is a secure, functional, elegant and powerful application for the Macintosh.

Users are required to be running Mac OS X 10.2 or higher and Universal Binary for the Camino 1.0.2 Web browser to work. Here's a rundown of what the good folks at the Camino Project fixed to come up with this version of the browser.

• Fixed several critical security issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.4 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
• Fixed an issue in Camino 1.0.1 where proxy auto-config (PAC) files were ignored.
• Fixed an issue where CaminoÂ?s bookmark metadata could not be added to the list of locations Spotlight is prevented from searching.
• Fixed an issue where using Camino on a network with many Bonjour hosts could significantly degrade performance.
• Fixed an issue where Camino would ignore the Â?Link from other applicationÂ? tabbed browsing preference in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue where Camino displayed some search fields on Apple.com incorrectly.

Download: [Camino 1.0.2]