Peripherals

This article will show you how to make your personal computer's operating system perform faster than before! You can improve your Windows XP performance by simply adjusting your...

It's easy to ask for help with your computer. Remember these rules, though, because the quality of the help depends on it.

When looking for a backup solution for your computer system, tape systems are still a strong contender when compared with newer technologies. Tape has the lowest cost per megabyte....

There are many reasons why you might want to transfer an audio recording from cassette to CD. You may have a recording from your early garage band days or an interview with your...

In this day of writable CDs, thumb drives, and cheap wireless networking, floppy disks are just about obsolete. However there are still many cases where floppies are a convenient...

Computer CD-ROM drives are fairly robust and need little if any attention. They can function even with a fair amount of dust on the lens, but on rare occasions, may get dirty...

What are the differences among all the DVD formats available for purchase? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Let's look at the options: DVD-ROM. Nobody calls pre-recorded...

I used to travel a lot, and experience taught me to never take an original CD or DVD on the road. I invariably ended up damaging or losing a disk at some point. Because of legitimate...

VHS video is inconvenient in today's digital world, and there are a lot of people who want to convert their older video recordings to DVD. You can certainly find a service that...

This article, Choosing DVD burning software, is a logical extension of its companion article, Choosing CD Burning Software. The fundamental steps are the same: do a web search...

The basics of choosing CD burning software are the same as making an intelligent choice when buying other types of software: do a Web search to explore your options, check out...

I find very few CDs these days where I like every track. I tend to listen to the whole thing at first, but after a while, I start skipping over the tracks I don't care for. A much...

How do you take a movie that is stored on your hard drive in AVI format and burn it to disk so that you can watch it on a standard DVD player? This is an important question...

Buying CD-R media today is no longer the daunting task it used to be. You can find CD-Recordable disks just about anywhere, even at your local convenience stores. They have become,...

Floppy drives are not used often today, but when you need to get data to or from a floppy disk, there is no substitute. Floppy drives are not usually very difficult to install...

Floppy drives are rapidly going the way of the dinosaurs. Most laptops don't even have floppy drives installed anymore. But for moving small amounts of data to and from a legacy...

Duplicating compact disks (CDs) is cheap, versatile, easy, and available to virtually every budget. To do it, you only need to know a few things:

Floppy disks were invented at a time when portable data storage was not well-developed for the home user.  Devices for portable media existed, but their storage capacity was small...