Posts Tagged ‘cd’

Repair a Scratched CD with Hair Gel

Interesting. Ben Hayes at om3ga has discovered a way to save your scratched CD - guess what? At first, he experimented different things - such as using water, deodorant, lem oil, and toothpaste. They have not done any magic fix on the CD. But when he tried the hair gel:

Yes, hair gel, and guess what… It worked!

I applied it in much the same way as the toothpaste, except I… » Continue

August 4 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: cd, repair | 7 comments»

DIY paper lunch bag CD covers

DVD-R and CDR usually available in a spin bundle now where it does not have a individual box or paperbag for discs. David Curry comes up with a DIY where he uses paper lunch bags as its CD cover. It is inexpensive, and it looks pretty cool:

I’ve been making these fun CDR covers for years - inexpensive, crafty, and you can design, print or xerox any arty label you… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: cd, craft, DIY | 3 comments»

Extend the Life of Your CDs and DVDs

The Council of Library and Information Resources knows you want to keep your DVDs alive for a long time, while Sony and others hash out the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD issue. To that end, here’s a guide for the proper care and feeding of your collection.

Archivists and librarians place great emphasis on preserving content for the long term while ensuring its everyday usability. One of their major challenges is to ensure… » Continue

May 29 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: archiving, care, cd, dvd, Lifehack, storage | no comments»

Re-surfacing scratched CD

Instructables has written another quick how-to on using Brasso metal polish to resurface and remove scratches from a CD/DVD. This method is probably worth to try when you have a CD which you cannot read data from because of the scratches. When you use Brasso on the CD, you are scraping away the CD surface to make the scratches smaller:

… Take some of the brasso and pour it onto the… » Continue

March 23 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: cd, Lifehack | 2 comments»