I started using Nero Burning Rom back in the days of the – super expensive – CD burners. It was an excellent CD burning software program but deteriorated into a resource hungry collection of applications and background processes. That’s when I decided to skip Nero and uninstall it from the computer system. I did find [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The ability to burn CDs is one of those issues that often perplexes many new users (to any operating system). For Windows users it’s about finding software to do the job. For OS X users it’s about knowing where to add a burnlist. For Linux users it’s just knowing that your operating system can in [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

You just downloaded the newest version of your favorite Linux distribution but you remembered the first time you did it you were in Windows where you had Nero (or some similar application) to help you burn the ISO image onto a CD or DVD. Now you’re in Linux…what do you do? Simple. You turn to [...]

Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

What are the main requirements of a burning software? It should obviously support all operations that a user would need. It should also be fast, resource friendly. Free would be nice as well. Lots of different CD burning software programs are available these days on the Internet, from CD Burner XP over Deepburner to IMGBurn. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows users can pick from a wide variety of commercial and free disc burning software applications. The free versions are usually trimmed down versions of their commercial editions. The Open Source disc burning software CDRTFE which is an acronym for CDRTools FrontEnd is a frontend for some of the classic Linux cdrtools. The disc burning [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I have been using Nero Burning Rom for a long time. It used to be a free giveaway with every CD or DVD burner that I bought over the years and I’m currently using version 7 something of it on my computer. Nero is a good program, really. It is just a little bit slow [...]

Categories: ask the readers, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

There are actually several impressive programs out there that can be used as a replacement for commercial CD and DVD writers such as Nero Burning Rom. They are interesting not only for users who do not buy a commercial products but also for those that feel that those commercial applications have become so bloated with features that their responsiveness has gone down the hill.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Many users just buy blank CDs and DVDs without thinking much about the manufacturer who created them – most want it cheap which has the result that their system has to cope with different media. They notice that their system burns some CDs and DVDs faster without knowing why. Your burner might have the specification to burn DVDs with 8x speed but your burning software offers you only 4x. This article explains why that is the case and what you can do to never make this happen again.

Categories: Hardware