Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...

Wondering how you were gonna install all your software on that forthcoming optical drive-deprived MacBook Air? Enter Remote Disc, which essentially enables users to "borrow" the optical drive of ...

Your MacBook Air (Late 2010) comes with a USB Software Reinstall Drive that contains a copy of Mac OS X and iLife. If you selected to pre-install iWork at the time ...

Why keep an outdated Windows XP installer… Your disc can include all the latest updates and hotfixes. We show you how. There are thousands—maybe millions—of ...

Whenever you purchase and connect an external webcam, it should run smoothly without much problems. This is often referred to as "plug-and-play" device. Most Logitech webcams, however, will come with ...

Welcome to the re-launch of Ask Ars, brought to you by CDW! Re-launch, you ask? Why, yes! Ask Ars was one of the first features of the newly born Ars Technica back in 1998. Ask Ars is all about your ...

It's been asked. They don't care, everything is over the Internet now and screw you if you can't download it (but please come to an Apple Store even if the closest ...

An ISO file, also known as an ISO image, is a disc image of all the installation files for a single program. Particularly large programs, such as Microsoft Office and the Windows operating system, are ...

Webcams allow you to record video clips on your computer and help you to keep in touch with friends on video chat services. Many laptop computers ship with integrated webcams along with the software ...