If you didn’t have enough with our review about Windows 7 RC and the blog post with further details about the Release Candidate, here’s a video where you’ll be able to see Microsoft’s new operating system in action while waiting for the 2.36 GB file to download.

Internet Explorer 8 has finally hit the shelves today, without many differences in comparison with the release candidate launched two months ago. Accelerators, Web Slices, InPrivate browsing and the so called SmartScreen filter are some of its most outstanding new features. But since a picture is worth a thousand words, we though you might get a better idea if you see Internet Explorer 8 in action. Here’s a video we just recorded with the newly launched browser: an overall review that covers its main tools and explains all the new stuff.

There’s been a bit of trouble for Microsoft at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. It seems like Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo (right) was a bit careless as he roamed around Barcelona last night and managed to lose his prototype HTC Touch with the yet-to-be-released Windows Mobile 6.5 running on it.

Luckily, this happened after OnSoftware had already taken a sneaky peak at the device and grab a video of the new operating system in action. Coincidentally, we were also in the same room as Sol Trujillo yesterday, when he delivered his keynote address at the conference. I know it might seem like the evidence is stacking up against us but I can assure you that it’s purely circumstantial and we can confirm we went nowhere near Sol’s pocket at any point during the day.

Besides, Microsoft Steve Ballmer had said earlier this week that because the new Windows Mobile service backs up all your personal data “it doesn’t matter if it gets stolen”. So what’s all the fuss about then?

Straight from the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, here’s some video of Palm giving us a first look at their new device, the Palm Pre. The first video features the phone’s search feature and web browser. The second highlights the address book and image viewer included with the brand new WebOS operating system.

Despite the criticism for its ever growing size, Nero remains the most popular burning app in the world. Its latest version, Nero 9, offers new features such as a more elegant interface design, a better tool organization, support for Blu-Ray discs and several HD video formats, a highly improved backup tool and other slight changes that make content sharing and multimedia creation easier and more enjoyable. If you want to take a first view at Nero 9, don’t miss the screencast we’ve prepared for you with all the Nero 9 essentials.

If you’re anything like me, you probably installed the new Google Chrome web browser, thought that it was pretty neat, then went back to Firefox when you realized that many of your favorite sites and web services don’t work in it. I decided it was time to take another look at the Google browser, and really got under the hood to explore some of the more interesting features that sets the app apart from the likes of IE and Firefox. Learn how to master these powerful tools by checking out the screencast.

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!