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Macworld 2010 Exhibitor Profiles...Comics, Transformers Comics, Star Trek comics and G.I. Joe Comics. Appropriately called "Quick Start", their company's high-quality, CD-Rom based video training courses are designed to teach the basics of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand,... In this article: Iphone, Macworld, Apress, Doxie, XBRL, IDW Comics, IPod, and San Francisco, CA. |
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Daring Fireball | 7 days ago
Flash Headed the Way of Director
Posted by Michael Pinto on Jan 30, 2010 in Tech | During the CD-ROM era of the 90s the only real game in town was Macromind Director. The program first started life out as an animation program bit with the boom in multimedia Director gained a...
In this article: Apple, HyperCard, Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Visual Basic, Silverlight, Macromind Director, and QuickTime
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Independent.ie | January 27, 2010
Computer giant Apple's hits and misses
:: In 1995 Apple attempted to grab a slice of the lucrative console gaming market with its Pippin, boasting multiplayer modem gaming and a CD-ROM drive. But the Pippin's timing was poor - it arrived just after Sony's PlayStation - and in the...
In this article: Apple, Iphone, IPod, Internet Explorer, Sony, Cd-rom Drive, Cyberdog, Safari, PlayStation, and Steve Jobs
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Chris Pirillo | January 26, 2010
Windows 3.1 Launch Party
...more weeks before asking to borrow the disk to blow away OS/2 Warp. (Which he did get on a CD, but there were no drivers for his CD-ROM Drive. He had to send away for those 20-30 floppies just to install.) © 2002-2010 Chris Pirillo,...
In this article: All rights reserved, MS Office, Cd-rom Drive, OS/2 Warp, and Windows 95
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The Register | January 14, 2010
Samsung SH-BO83L Blu-ray drive
...to write DVD+/-R discs at 16x, DVD+RW at 8x and DVD-RW at 6x. You can write CD-R media at 48x and CD-RW at 32x. Read speed for standard CD-ROMs is 48x, reduced a little to 40x for CD-R and CD-RW discs. Boring all that might be, it simply...
In this article: DVD, Blu-ray, Cd-rw, CD-R, CyberLink, Dvd-rw, Dvd+rw, Cd-roms, and Samsung
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Wired: Game Life | January 13, 2010
Why I Like Wii Mad Dog McCree And You Won't
...Western shooter using live-action video that debuted as an arcade game in 1990. It was one of the first really hot games for the emerging PC CD-ROM format, and represented what we all carelessly, wrongly assumed was the Future Of...
In this article: Wii, Mad Dog McCree, The Last Bounty Hunter, GameStop, ESRB, PC Cd-rom, Marky Mark: Make My Video, Target, Majesco, and American Laser Games
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Chicago Tribune | January 11, 2010
Wayback machine-- What were they all excited about at the 2000 Consumer Electronics Show?
...electronics.... MP3 is a digital compression system that's the rage in audio. It can store 10 hours or more of music on a single CD-ROM or an hour on a tiny memory card.... Kenwood also offers a heads-up display system, the first...
In this article: Consumer Electronics Show, E mail, DVD, Visteon, Sunbeam, Chicago, Brewing, Walkman, and Steroid
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eWEEK Technology News | January 08, 2010
Samsung Previews Slim External DVD Writer at CES
...Hg, PBBs and PBDE have been eliminated. The DVD writer drive provides a variety of speeds across different data media types including: 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD±R recording, 5X DVD-RAM recording, 8X DVD+R Dual Layer recording, 6X DVD-R...
In this article: DVD, Samsung, Consumer Electronics Show, Dvd-rw, Dvd+rw, Cd-rw, Mac OS, and Samsung Semiconductor
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Washington Times | January 04, 2010
KELLNER: Time for tech resolutions, security solutions
Today, just about every new Windows-based PC has a mechanism for creating "rescue" or "system restore" disks using some blank CD- or DVD-ROMs. Be sure to use it. (3) "Secure your wireless network." As I drive around the D.C. suburbs,...
In this article: Information superhighway, E mail, Debit card, Microsoft Windows 7, USB Flash Memory Drives, Microsoft Office, Cd-roms, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Itunes, and Gmail
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Daily Mail | January 01, 2010
Man 'buys' $3billion CD-ROM on Amazon - just to see what would happen
...tag of nearly three billion dollars - just to see what would happen. Brian Klug spotted the copy of the Discovery Channel's 'Cells' CD-ROM for sale at $2,904,980,000 (GBP1,800,979,540). Out of sheer curiosity, convinced the price tag was a...
In this article: Amazon.com, Reddit, Discovery Channel, U.S., and San Mateo, California
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Life123 | December 15, 2009
Tips for Cleaning CD ROM Drives
...the problem probably isn't your CD ROM drive. If the problem persists, it may be time for cleaning the CD ROM drive. Don't clean the CD ROM drive unless you're truly having trouble, though, because you can damage your CD ROM during the...
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CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory") is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.
CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, whilst data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as PC CD-ROMs). These are called Enhanced CDs.
Although many people use lowercase letters in this acronym, proper presentation is in all capital letters with a hyphen between CD and ROM. It was also suggested by some, especially soon after the technology was first released, that CD-ROM was an acronym for "Compact Disc read-only-media", or that it was a more "correct" definition. This was not the intention of the original team who developed the CD-ROM, and common acceptance of the "memory" definition is now almost universal. This is probably in no small part due to the widespread use of other "ROM" acronyms such as Flash-ROMs and EEPROMs where "memory" is usually the correct term.
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