Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools , Apple ComputerWorld is reporting that Chrome has surpassed Safari as the third-most popular browser. According to Net Applications, which tracks the browser habits of 160 million unique visitors each month to the 40,000 sites it monitors for customers, Chrome’s share jumped to 4.4% for the week of Dec. 6-12, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over Google’s slice of the browser pie for the month of November.

Filed under: Odds and ends , PowerBook , MobileMe In late August we told you the story of ‘Jim’ who had his Mac laptop stolen along with some other computers and household goods. For the heck of it, he tried using Back to My Mac to find his machine

Filed under: Deals ‘Tis the season shop until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely, depending on your interpretation of the term holiday). In that spirit, for the next few weeks we’ll be rounding up a dozen daily deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com . Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this handy summary

Filed under: Hardware , How-tos , Holidays , Mac 101 Now that the holidays are approaching, you’ll probably be asked to service your relatives’ computers. “You like computers, right? Will you take a look at this for me?” Prepare yourself, it’s coming.

Amazon has announced that their Kindle for iPhone app is now available in close to 63 of the 77 countries that the App Store caters to. China and Singapore are among those countries where the iPhone app is still not available.

With 10 shopping days left before Christmas, we have a bonanza of Apple hardware bargains, ranging from MacBook Pros to iPod nanos. We start off with the Apple Store, offering more than a dozen refurbished MacBook Pro laptops, including a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo machine with 13.3-inch display for $1,299.

mPassport Paris – One of my biggest fears, beyond losing my wallet or passport, when traveling abroad is that I might be injured in an accident, come down with a serious bug or get some other illness. Say what you will about the America health insurance system, you can’t beat American hospitals and doctors to patch you up when you get sick.

As a sniper in Sniper Vs Sniper by Com2uS, you’ll have mere seconds to line up your shot and take out other sharpshooters. Available for the iPhone and iPod touch, the action ranges from a robust set of single player campaigns to heart-stopping competition against other players online.

Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Found Footage A piano has 88 keys, and this arrangement of iPhones comes pretty close (we counted 84).

The App Store is bursting with mobile applications — 100,000-plus of them to be more or less exact. But never fear: We’ve scoured the store to find the must-have apps for your iPhone and iPod touch to pick 20 of our favorite apps from the past year

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Rumors , Mac Pro You’d think we were on the verge of an old-school Macworld Expo Keynote with all the rumors about this morning. Chinese site PCOnline.com.cn has spilled the beans on Intel’s forthcoming Core i7-980x Processor. We’re guessing that this processor could reside in future Mac Pros

Our own illustrious Craig Grannell might have had issues with Chrome for its willful transgression of Mac interface design principles, but he still liked it enough to make it his new default browser at the end of the day. Looks like Craig wasn’t alone: after last week’s release of the Chrome for Mac beta, Google’s

Filed under: Gaming , iPhone This is an interesting trend: Warrior Epic , an MMO game by True Games , has announced that they’ve released an iPhone app [iTunes link] version for free, featuring “a small portion of the strategy, role-playing and battles found in the online MMORPG,” kind of like a taster for the actual PC game. The game itself isn’t a 3D action game like the full game, but rather a “stat game,” much like many of the minigames being released on Facebook and other social platforms (in fact, Warrior Epic is releasing this game as a Facebook game as well).