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 ...

Nero is being a bitch again. I'm trying to backup some data, but when I try to burn a CD, Nero asks me to insert a blank cd. I've got a perfectly working blank CD in my CD-R drive, but its not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blank CDs are on their way out as a day to day storage medium, and by the looks of things they don’t make for a very comfortable chair either. The inexplicably titled “Panda Chair” was designed by ...

No more temporary backups resulting in failed burns Mac OS X 10.4 no longer creates temporary backups of the data that is being burned to media. This saves time, but also results in more failed burns ...