Hewlett-Packard? Official Recordable CD Handbook - Softcover

Chambers, Mark L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764534742 ISBN 13: 9780764534744

Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Synopsis

No matter what recordable CD hardware you own, this ultimate guide to using and troubleshooing your equipment shows you how to make the most of its capabilities. Most people use recordable CDs to back up and store huge data files, but you can also cut your own music CDs, make greeting cards, baby books, wedding albums, design family trees, archive important documents, and more! The Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook walks you through everything from choosing a system that suits your needs and recording your first CD to getting the most out of your investment.

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Review:

You can't beat a compact disc recorder, also known as a "CD burner," as an accessory for your home computer. With it, you can make backups of your data and software, transfer files among computers without a network, and compile music CDs containing all your favorite songs. In an office environment, you can take presentations on the road, make demo disks for customers, and lots more. Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook shows how to select a CD burner and use it to maximum effect. With remarkable brand neutrality, Mark Chambers explains how to configure a CD recorder, use the most popular software for controlling one, and put it to use in interesting home and office recording projects.

Chambers offers no-nonsense buying advice ("For most of us, 4x is fast enough"), straightforward hardware configuration instructions with lots of illustrations, conceptual information about how the CD-recording process works, and precise directions for using recording software. He's not stingy with procedures for you to follow, but you might value more highly his explanatory text. In that prose, Chambers offers facts and hints you can use to get your system out of any jam it might get into, and properly optimized once it's running. The projects described in these pages are cool, too: Chambers shows how to create a CD that contains resources for new employees, record a video CD (VCD), and combine music and video on a single disk. --David Wall

Topics covered: All aspects of installing, configuring, and using a CD recorder. With its emphasis on PCs running Microsoft Windows 9x, this book shows how to hook up a CD recorder and get it to work well. A large part of the how-to material deals with Adaptec Easy CD Creator, a popular software package for configuring and burning CDs. Specific instructions for various recording projects conclude this book.

From the Publisher:

Prices for recordable CD hardware are falling, making this powerful tool available to more and more users.

Discover hundreds of helpful tips for choosing, setting up, recording, and troubleshooting your new CD-R or CD-RW hardware.

Explore some fun and creative uses for recordable CD, in addition to backing up your hard drive, through 7 different projects.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764534742
• ISBN 13: 9780764534744
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288