Having an independent bootable USB drive or SD Card also makes sense in case you want to install Mountain Lion on multiple computers without having to download it time and again.

Etcher is the easiet ISO image burning software we've come across in a very long time that allows you to Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives.

Lion Diskmaker has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media. The process is straightforward: 1.

Etcher can actually make a bootable SD card from any operating system image, but we’ll be using it for Raspberry Pi images more than anything else.

Trying to get started with VMware's virtualization app but lack an optical drive on your server? Here are the steps to transform the ISO into a bootable flash drive for installing the hypervisor.

The addition of a built-in SD card reader to the 13" and 15" MacBook Pros may have dubious utility for many users, but Apple has seen fit to include at least one feature with lots of potential use ...