September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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• Choose FileÆBurn Disc.
• Click the Burn button next to the disc’s name in the Sidebar.
• Drag the disc’s icon toward the Trash icon in the Dock. As soon as you begin to
drag, the Trash icon turns into that yellow fallout-shelter logo. Drop the disc’s icon
onto it.
• Control-click (right-click) the disc’s icon and choose Burn Disc from the shortcut
menu (shown in Figure 8-12).
In any case, the dialog box shown at bottom left in Figure 8-12 now appears. Click
Burn. When the recording process is over, you’ll have yourself a DVD or CD that
works in any Mac or PC.
Tip: Not sure what kinds of discs your Mac can burn? Open System Profiler (in your ApplicationsÆUtilities
folder) and expand the Hardware triangle. The Disc Burning category lists every format your machine can
read and write (that is, read and burn).
iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
iTunes, in your Applications folder, is the ultimate software jukebox (Figure 8-13). It
can play music CDs, tune in to Internet radio stations, load up your iPod music player,
and play back digital sound files (including the Internet’s favorite format, MP3).
It can also turn selected tracks from your music CDs into MP3 files, so that you can
store favorite songs on your hard drive to play back anytime—without having to dig
up the original CDs. If your Mac can burn CDs, iTunes lets you record your own
custom audio ...
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