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tPhone For The Win!
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... of an Apple laptop in toast. But it was the tPhone that won the hearts of the Mac|Life editors. Or maybe it was our stomachs. Either way, David Nichols’ faithful recreation of an iPhone Home screen in toast is the winner of our Art of Toast Challenge. For his outstanding accomplishments in Toaster Arts, we’re awarding David some awesome disc-burning software from Roxio, plus some coin to spend in the iTunes store. David's Prize image of toast 9 software box Toast 9 Titanium ($99.99, www.roxio.com ), plus a $50 iTunes gift card ...

Roxio offers Easy VHS to DVD
Coolest Gadgets — ... VHS tapes. All you need to do is connect the included hardware to a high-speed USB 2.0 port, and you’re given the all clear to capture from virtually any analog video or audio source. The inclusion of S-Video and composite-video inputs allow for full-resolution DVD recording from VCRs, VCR/DVD combo players, and analog camcorders including Hi8 and V8 models. If you’re interested in converting your entire library of VHS tapes instead of repurchasing them in newer formats, head on here and purchase it online or wait for next January where it will be ...

Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Burns Media, Streams to iPhone, Transfers Video Files to Your Tivo [Burnination]
Gizmodo — ... Other features include folder syncing between computers, conversion of audiobooks from CD to MP3, and compiling clips from DVD movies. Roxio will also offer Toast 10 TitaniumPro, which burns full HD video to Blu-ray or DVD discs that are suitable for playback in Blu-ray players. The pro version also comes with a suite of full version audio and video editing apps. Toast 10 Titanium and Toast 10 Titanium Pro will be available this month for $100 and $150, respectively. [Roxio] ...

MWSF: Roxio cooks up Toast 10 Titanium
Macsimum News — ... Roxio is releasing Toast 10 Titanium, the latest version of the company’s burning and digital media software for the Mac, at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo. The latest version helps greatly enhance and extend Mac OS X and iLife applications with a broad range of additional capabilities for creating,... ...

Macworld Expo Blog Bits (Part 1)
The Mac Observer — ... agrees. Toast 10 and EyeTV Hybrid. If you don't already own these two products, now is a good time to consider getting them. They were both upgraded in time for the Expo. Toast 10 is much more than a DVD-burning utility. You can use it to save videos from the Web, from TiVO recorders or from EyeTV -- and easily convert files to the exact format you want, such as for the iPhone. You can even use it to stream shows from an EyeTV or TiVo to your iPhone (I didn't see this demoed at the Expo, but that's the claim). The ...

MacVoices #909: Macworld Expo - Roxio’s Toast 10 Product Manager Talks About Toast 10
MacVoices — Roxio announced the latest update to the venerable CD/DVD authoring program, Toast, at Macworld Expo, and Patrick Nugent, Product Manager for Toast 10, describes key new features, including web video capabilities and upgraded TiVo support. Patrick also profiles the new software bundle for the Pro version that includes some best-in-class software to help you put more sophistication in your media creations. Links: Chuck Joiner on Twitter MacVoices at ...

Sending Videos To and From A TiVo
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... a hidden feature that lets you transfer videos from your Mac to your TiVo. I have a TiVo connected to my wireless network. How can I transfer videos back and forth between my TiVo and my Mac? If you have a network-capable TiVo (such as a TiVo Series3 or TiVo HD) that you’ve connected to your network via Ethernet or wireless, you can transfer recorded shows from your TiVo’s Now Playing List to your Mac—and, for the first time, from your Mac to your TiVo—using Toast 10 Titanium ($99, www.roxio.com ). Additionally, Toast can convert those videos into a format that you can play ...

Apple software updates for Feb. 27
Macsimum News — ... , its its iPhone/iPod Touch app for reading comic archives, to version 1.1. The upgrade is designed to make it easy to optimize CBR, CBZ and ZIP files and send them to your iPhone/iPod touch using a new companion application: Jivaro. Roxio has updated its Popcorn video tool to version 3.0.3. The upgrade resolves compatibility issues with newer MacBooks and MacBook Pros. ...

Macworld Buying Guides: Optical drives
Macworld — ... ($469) offers 2x BD-R (single and dual-layer), bus-powered USB 2.0 connectivity, and DVD/DVD-RAM/CD burning in a slim case. While burning files to a Blu-ray disc requires nothing more than Mac OS, you need third-party software to create a video Blu-ray disc. Roxio Toast 10 Titanium with the High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in ($100 plus $20 for the plug-in) lets you author HD video content onto Blu-ray—or even onto standard DVD-Rs (no Blu-ray burner required)—for playback on Blu-ray or HD DVD set-top players. ...

Roxio introduces Easy VHS to DVD for Mac
Macsimum News — ... Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, has released Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac, an US$79.99 combination of software and hardware that provides consumers with a way to convert and transfer personal video and entertainment stored on VHS tape to DVD. ...

Review: OWC Mercury Pro 8X Blu-ray External
Macworld — ... with its $20 HD plug-in . Good performance The OWC drive was a decent performer; out of the five timed tests we ran on a recent batch of Blu-ray drives, the OWC posted the fastest times in our DVD+R DL burning test using Toast Titanium 10 and was not far behind the leaders in three of our other tests. It was a bit poky in our Burn and Verify DVD-R Finder test. And while the drive performed well against the other drives in its class, the performance results from the drive’s different connections were a bit of a mystery. Burning a DVD-R ...

Review: d2 Blu-ray Professional BD-R, BD-RE Drive
Macworld — ... Toast Titanium 9 software. (We also had issues with Toast Titanium 10.) The FireWire connection gave us no trouble. Using the company’s stackable d2 case design, this external Blu-ray drive uses Pioneer’s BDR-203 mechanism and requires external power to operate. The drive can burn 25GB single-layer Blu-ray (BD-R) discs as well as 50GB BD-R DL discs at speeds up to 8X. Burning data to Blu-ray discs is supported by OS X’s disc burner utility, or through a third-party application like Roxio Toast . You can burn high definition Blu-ray discs to watch on your home theatre ...

Review: FastMac External Slimline USB 2.0 BD-R 4X Optical Drive
Macworld — ... This compact drive, which sports an attractive matte black case, attaches to your Mac via USB 2.0 and required no external power when connected to our Mac Pro for testing. The drive can burn 25GB single-layer Blu-ray (BD-R) discs at speeds up to 4x as well as 50GB BD-R DL discs at speeds up to 2X. Most of the drives we’ve looked at can burn both types of Blu-ray media at 8X speeds. Burning data to Blu-ray discs is supported by OS X’s Finder, or through a third-party application like Roxio Toast . You can burn high-definition Blu-ray discs to watch on your home theatre ...

MacVoices #9106: Patrick Nugent of Roxio Serves Up Popcorn 4
MacVoices — ... , explains the benefits video enthusiasts will enjoy with their new Popcorn 4. Popcorn 4 is a DVD copy and video conversion utility that will move almost any video from one format to another. Patrick explains how the Popcorn interface utilizes a series of presents for commonly used devices, but also offers all the customization an expert could ask for. With support for even more video formats, direct publishing to YouTube, Flash conversion, Turbo.264 HD support among the new features, Popcorn 4 is fast ...

10 Gifts for the Mac Switcher
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... mean working--to recharge at your desk, we’d recommend buying an extra power adapter so that you can plug in wherever you do lots of work. We have a spare hidden behind the living room sofa that gets regular use, but anywhere you find yourself with MacBook in hand is a good candidate for stashing an extra adapter. Just be careful of that guy a few cubes over who wants to borrow your spare. Trust us, he’ll never bring it back. Tell him to go buy his own.   Toast Titanium Pro Apple doesn’t really kowtow to ...