If you ever get annoyed from that beep you hear every time you push down more than one key by accident? Or maybe it happens when your PC freezes and you can’t push any key without hearing it. Well, here is how you disable the sound: 1.) Go to “Start–>Run” and type “Regedit” in the command prompt. Then hit OK. 2.) Navigate...

Video editing is taking the world by storm. Everywhere you look, you see videos made by average people. If you just bought a DV camcorder and want to show the world or your family what it’s seeing, you need video editing software. It’s possible some software was included with the camcorder, but you might want to take a look at the options before...

Note: The following review was posted January 18, 2006. Microsoft Anti-Spyware has since evolved into Microsoft Windows Defender, built in to Windows Vista and available for Windows XP via download. You can read our full review of Windows Defender here: http://www.pcmech.com/show/reviews/916/  For this week’s Freeware Frenzy, I will be taking a look at...

The number of different electronic devices that people are likely to own in this day and age is staggering.  You have your cell phone, iPod, PDA, laptop, digital camera…  After a while it gets to be tiresome.  Your pants are falling down from the weight of all these devices.  But you need, or at least want, to be able to make calls, listen...

This tip may be very simple, but I bet some of you have never tried it before. If you ever need to quickly access the address bar in your web browser, just press “Alt” and D at the same time. This will auto-select all of the text and highlight it in the bar so that you can just start typing in a new address. This does work with Internet Explorer...

I used to really like WeatherBug, but it hogged up valuable resources in order to run. I then found this little FireFox extension that gives me real-time weather and alerts at almost no cost to system resources. Forecastfox sits to the right of the search bar in the browser and is hardly noticeable when you’re trying to do other things. There really...

I have found this to be one of the most useful FireFox extensions I have installed, and I believe it will come of great use to many of you. Instead of always having to go to Dictionary.com for definitions, you could install this extension and just double click on the word you don’t know the meaning of. Go download this extension and start expanding your...

If you have ever accidentally erased or have a corrupted registry entry that affects your Internet connection, you should give this program a try. Though it is a last resort, Winsock XP Fix could be just the thing to save you from having to call those tech support guys. Also, if you ever do have a problem with your connection and this doesn’t work, feel free...