Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Q: I noticed that there are two different types of blank CDs on the market — data and music. Is there any real difference, and, if so, would the quality of the sound suffer by burning a music CD on a ...

Here's the deal: I bought a ton (400+) of blank CDs a while back. They were generic silver CD-Rs, rated at up to 12X, I believe. I burned some CDs with them occasionally on my Plextor 16X burner. Both ...

There was a time when burning a blank CD-ROM in your own home sparked feelings of wonder and joy as if you were performing a minor miracle. What once seemed like a technical marvel has, like so many ...

Napster is teaming up with Imation, a maker of optical media products, to market and distribute Napster-branded blank CDs and DVDs in North America. The online music company also announced an ...

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. In a nod to the popularity of CD burners, Apple Computer Inc. and Time Warner Inc.’s Reprise Records label today will begin marketing blank “Lord of the Rings”-themed ...

Spurred by the growth of writable compact disc drives in computers, with consumers using them for everything from creating music CDs to computer back-ups to basic file copying, retailers are starting ...

Even though CD-R discs are compatible with MacBook Pro and can be used to upload data such as music, the notebook will have a hard time reading and writing it if the disc is dirty and damaged, or if ...

I'm having a weird problem with Nero (v 5.8.0) and my Liteon 48x burner.<BR><BR>I'm using the copy of nero that came bundled with the burner and it worked when I first got it because I burnt quite a ...

CD burners have made it possible to combine the best of Bach and Destiny's Child on the same compact disc -- prompting grand scale consumption of CD-recorder drives by computer owners new and old. But ...

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The dramatic announcement from Microsoft and Wang last year -- that anyone who purchased a copy of Windows 95 would receive a free image viewer -- led many to believe inexpensive imaging would soon be ...