Icy Tower provides a great way to waste time during a lunch break or a rainy day. While the gameplay never gets boring, you tend to get sick of the sight of Harold the Homeboy after around the 1,000th attempt at cracking the game. A while back I explained how to create your own Icy Tower character, but seeing as some of you still seem to be having trouble building your new hero I thought I’d do a quick screencast to walk you through the process.

If you read us on a regular basis, you’ll have seen, and maybe even tried, our Photoshop tutorials. This week though we wanted to do something different, so we decided to publish our weekly tutorial as a video instead of the usual step-by-step written post. This first Photoshop tutorial on video shows you how to create a really nice blending effect between two pictures in just two easy steps. Hope you like it!

What does it take to change the appearance of your Vista computer? Is there a way to play around with the taskbar’s transparency level? A while back Nick gave us some tips on how to tweak transparency on Windows XP.  Elena also came up with the Transbar application and explained how you could use it in XP. In the following video we show you how you can make your Vista taskbar transparent with Transbar and give you a few quick tips on changing the appearance of your desktop. Enjoy!

Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for the past week, you can’t have missed the release of the brand new Firefox 3. Although the event was marred by a few connection issues, which prevented users from downloading the program for a few hours, Mozilla’s Download Day was globally a success and the new version of the browser has already been downloaded more than 13 million times worldwide. This week, Nick and I took to testing Firefox and exchanged our impressions. Today, I invite you to check out a video review of the new features in Firefox 3:

You may have Firefox as your regular web browser, but that doesn’t mean you make use of all of its features. A simple enough one is the ‘Clear Private Data’ function. This allows you to erase all the information stored in your browser. Using it regularly is not only safe practice, as it ensures that you clear out sensitive information like passwords or certificates regularly, it can also improve Firefox’s performance. Anyway, enough said here. Why read when you can watch? Here is a little tutorial using our new video feature. Enjoy!