Showing off your photographs in a slideshow is a time-honored tradition. Use the Windows Media Center to share your slideshows via compact disc. When you put a slideshow on a CD, you make it more accessible, as picture files are often too large to email in batches to family and friends.

Burning a data a CD or DVD is no longer as popular as it once was. Chalk it up to high-speed Internet connections, cloud storage services, USB drives, and other technologies that have made massive data transfer easy and dirt-cheap. Nevertheless, there are still times when you'll need to burn a data CD or DVD with your Mac. The resulting disc can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. Here's how to burn a data CD or DVD in Mac OS X: • Insert a blank CD or DVD into your Mac's drive.

The window shown below appears. • From the Action menu, select Open Finder.

• Click OK • Open a new Finder window. The blank CD or DVD appears in the sidebar, as shown below.

• Drag and drop files and folders onto the CD or DVD. Because you're copying the files and folders and not moving them from your hard disk to the CD or DVD, all of the icons appear as aliases. • When you're ready to create the disc, click Burn as shown above. The window shown below appears. • Enter a name for the CD or DVD in the Disc Name field.

• Click Burn. Your Mac burns the disc - you can monitor the progress by watching the status window, as shown below. • The Finder mounts the disc after it has been burned, as shown below. You can now eject the disc and share it with friends. It should work on any other computer, including those running Windows and Linux operating systems. Related Articles • • Meet Your Macinstructor, the author of, has been a Mac user for over 20 years.

A former ghost writer for some of Apple's most notable instructors, Cone founded Macinstruct in 1999, a site with OS X tutorials that boasts hundreds of thousands of unique visitors per month. File sync application. You can email him at:.

One of the things I missed the most when I replaced my late 2012 MacBook Pro with my is the optical drive. I didn't really use it that often, but I did use it, and I knew I'd miss it. Yes, an external works just fine and iCloud (as well as other cloud-based services) have made it easy to transfer files digitally. But in a pinch, you might just want to access files from a disc on another computer.

This is where Remote Disc comes in. It's a Mac feature that lets you view and access files on a Mac or PC with an optical drive from a Mac that doesn't have one.

Here's how to set up and use it. The minimum requirements Most importantly, the Mac you are trying to access a Remote Disc from can't have a built-in optical drive. If it does, you just won't see Remote Disc as an option in Finder. The disc you are trying to access must also support Remote Disc. Remote Disc does not support certain types of media, mainly copy-protected media like movies and music. You can't access audio CDs, Blu-ray or DVD movies, copy-protected games, recordable CDs or DVDs that you want to burn or erase, and Microsoft installation discs. How to set up Remote Sharing on Mac From one Mac to another, Remote Disc is just about as simple as can be.

It's just a matter of ticking a box in your System Preferences. Office for mac 64 bit. • On the Mac with an optical drive, click on the Apple Menu icon. • Launch System Preferences. • Click on Sharing.

• Tick the box for DVD or CD Sharing. • To protect your content, tick the box for Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD Drive. When DVD or CD sharing is on, a green light will appear on the Sharing page. How to set up Remote Sharing on Windows PC Sharing your CD or DVD drive from a PC is not any harder than sharing from a Mac, but you do have to install some additional software first. • Download and install Apple's onto the PC. • Open your PC's Control Panel.