Grab your Android device and experience a blast from the past with ChuChu Rocket, the classic puzzle game originally released for Sega's Dreamcast console in 1999.

Previously only available in the iTunes app store, the classic puzzler has finally made its way into the Android Market, and can be had for a mere 99 cents. It's just as fun as it was back in the day, and lucky for us, today's touch-screen interface hasn't slowed it down a bit. In fact, we think the swipe gesture actually lends itself quite well to the game.

In ChuChu Rocket, your objective is to guide hordes of frantic mice (ChuChus) to their rocket ship by dropping arrowed tiles on the ground. As the mice move about the screen, simply swipe in front of them to drop a tile and point them in a direction to run. While the game may not sound very difficult, there are, in fact, an assortment of obstacles and an army of evil cats that very well could have you pulling your hair out by level 10.

With three different game modes, some ridiculously fast-paced gameplay, and an out-of-this-world story line, ChuChu Rocket is undoubtedly one of the more unusual puzzle games out there. Whether you used to play it on Dreamcast or you're just now hearing about it, we think it's definitely worth a download.

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In a recent discussion about the support of OS X 10.5 for its popular Firefox Web browser, Mozilla developers have been considering the removal of support for Leopard.

Leopard is now four years old, and the prediction by the Mozilla development team is that by the time Firefox 13 is released in June of 2012, the number of users running the operating system who would install it will have dropped to less than 10 percent of the Firefox Mac install base. In addition, technical challenges would make continued support for OS X 10.5 an unnecessary burden on Mozilla's Mac development team.

According to Mozilla's Josh Aas, Mac systems currently make up around 6.6 percent of all Firefox users, including versions of the browser since Firefox 3. While the majority of these are using OS X 10.5 (53 percent), if you just look at Firefox 7 then only about 20 percent of Mac users are running it on OS X 10.5. The Mozilla team expects that by the time Firefox 13 is released, those installing it who are still using Leopard will be only 9 percent of the Firefox Mac install base.

Beyond low numbers of users, maintaining Firefox on OS X 10.5 Leopard would also be far more difficult than developing it just for OS X 10.6 and 10.7. Leopard does not include support for advanced features like WebGL, and maintaining much of the security of the browser would rest ... [Read more]

Chrome is within striking distance of Firefox for second place in worldwide browser usage.

If one in 50 people on the Web move from Firefox to Chrome, Google's browser will unseat Mozilla's for the No. 2 spot in worldwide usage.

That's because, according to Net Applications' November browser usage measurements, Chrome is now within 4 percentage points of Firefox. With a 2 percentage-point increase in one and a 2 percentage-point decrease in the other, Google comes out on top.

Firefox dropped 0.4 percentage point to 22.1 percent of usage in November, while Chrome gained 0.7 percent to 18.2 percent. If that rate was to continue, Chrome would outpace Firefox in March 2012, but fluctuations make such predictions difficult.

Firefox once was the prime challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which for years languished in the doldrums of software development. Now it shares that role with Chrome and, to a lesser degree, Apple's Safari. Microsoft is in high gear again, though, with IE9 a credible challenger and ... [Read more]