Toast Titanium is a universal disc burning application that can be used to do the following:

• Back up files and folders to CDs and DVDs including photographs.
• Enhance the sound from your music files and create your own CDs
• Create DVD playable movies or slideshows from your still photographs.
• Convert QuickTime video files or iMovie project files into playable DVDs.

The application, however, can do far more than just what is listed above. For additional information about the features Toast Titanium, please click here.

For basic instructions on burning CDs and DVDs with Toast Titanium using our lab Macs please click here.

iTunes is the primary music player for the Mac. One of its many features allows users to easily create music CDs from playlists. iTunes can be used for much more than just playing music. Like movies, TV Shows, podcasts, iPod games, ringtones, etc.

For additional information about iTunes, please click here.

For basic instructions on how to use iTunes to burn music onto a blank disc, please click here.

iDVD is a DVD creator that allows users to build and then burn their own DVDs. Some of it's features include:

• Several dozen themes that feature dynamic drop zones that display photos and video clips in motion across DVD menus,
• The freedom for users to edit existing themes or create their own basic DVD menus.
• Easy drag and drop insertion of completed movies, video clips or stills.
• Direct importation of completed movies from iMovie.
• Direct importation of video from a camcorder along with limited editing functions in "Map View".

For additional information about iDVD, please click here.

Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include:

• the creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or .cdr, which is identical to the .iso format;
• mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks
• burning disk images to CD or DVD in HFS+ format;
• erasing CD-RWs and DVD-RWs;
• adding or changing partition table between Apple Partition Table and GUID Partition Table;

Disk Utility makes it easy to make an exact copy of a CD or DVD that can be stored on a hard drive as a disk image, or burned to a CD or DVD for future use.

For additional information about Disk Utility, please click here.

For basic instructions on how to use iTunes to burn music onto a blank disc, please click here.

When you start up your computer, the Finder opens. The Finder is a program that’s responsible for managing your files, applications, disks, network connections, and devices such as printers. The Finder is always on when your computer is running, though it may be in the background if you’re using another program. The Finder provides a menu bar along the top of the screen, and a Dock at the bottom edge.

The Finder can also burn a DVD/CD as a backup but it will consume all the space in the disk. If you want to burn items to a disk in more than one session until the disc is full, use other software like Toast or Disk Utility. This is called multisession burning.

For additional information about Finder, please click here.

For basic instructions on how to use iTunes to burn music onto a blank disc, please click here.