I've got a buddy with a PowerPC running OS 9.1<BR><BR>I downloaded a Mac program for him off the web since he doesn't have broadband. I'd like to burn it to a CD compatible with his computer. What ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

Following up on our recent item (Apple! Are you listening?) requesting a utility to make customized bootable CDs that launch applications the user selects: Use BootCD Ask and ye shall receive! Charles ...

More Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice users. Every so often, stumbling around the Mac OS you find something clever and wish everyone knew it. As I was about to do a CD burn on my internal optical ...

Organizations often create a secondary disc backup to prevent permanent loss of data or to help deploy it across multiple computers more efficiently. While burning a CD image to a blank disc is ...

When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...

We previously reported that if you connect your Mac to a new dual-layer DVD drive like the LaCie 8x d2 DVD /-RW Double Layer drive, in some cases it will not be recognized by the Mac. The previously ...

if the file is a tar archive of a bootable system image of some kind, you should do the following:<br><br>1. Run the Terminal application<br>2. Use the cd command to get to the directory where the tar ...

Disc Makers announced Thursday the expansion of its CD and DVD duplication system line with new Mac-compatible offerings. Disc Makers offers systems starting at $699 for the Mac market. Disc Makers’ ...

One of the more more interesting, albeit minor, announcements at Macworld was Remote Disc, Apple's method to undermine the need to bundle an optical drive with the Air. To our chagrin, Apple also ...

A few weeks ago, we brought you the news that Lorde's new album Virgin, which was released on a fully transparent CD, wouldn't play. Fans reported (across BBC, Reddit and Amazon reviews) that the disc ...