“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 12
Thank you, we have a winner – this Contest is closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Scotty D!
On the Twelfth Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) Toast 10 Titanium Pro from Roxio!
That’s right, Roxio released this monster update today at Macworld, and we are you giving you a chance to snag your very own copy of the Pro version of Roxio’s award-winning CD/DVD burning/Media Streaming/video compressing/Tivo-loving/ High-Def supporting/File Syncing/too much more to naming- software!
Toast had already long ago evolved from a mere CD/DVD burning application, but version 10 has so many cool new features that you may find it replaces many of your existing media applications. In fact, there’s so much cool stuff in Toast 10, even if you never burn a single disc you’re still going to want to pick it up! You can check out the full list of features here, but some of the cooler new features in version 10 are:
AVCHD™ Archive – Backup original video from AVCHD camcorders direct to DVD or BD media in one easy step.
Mac2TiVo – Send standard definition and HD video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR for viewing on your TV.
Web Video To Go – Save Web video from your favorite video sharing sites to view offline, burn or convert it for viewing on portable players such as an iPod or iPhone.
On-the-go Entertainment – Stream and watch television programs, such as EyeTV recordings and TiVoToGo transfers on your iPhone or iPod touch over Wi-Fi with the new iPhone native application Streamer®.
Portable Audiobooks – Convert audiobook CDs into single audiobook files for playback on your iPod or other portable player– complete with individual chapters – no more individual audiobook chapter files scattered throughout your iTunes library or iPod.
Music Builder – Expand your audio library by capturing streaming audio. Toast now automatically splits captured songs into tracks, tags them with title and artist information, and then sends them to iTunes.
Folder Sync – Synchronize folders bi-directionally between multiple computers, network volumes or external hard disks.
Stunning DVDs – Create personalized DVDs with any of the over 20 new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles—available in both full screen and high-definition widescreen versions.
Plus, since you are winning the PRO version of Toast 10, you also get these five 3rd party apps designed to handle all your High-def, audio, and photo needs!
HD/BD Plug-In – Author HD video content on to standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Take high-def (HD) video footage from AVCHD™ camcorders, TiVo® and EyeTV and create Blu-ray Discs or even standard DVDs with HD content that can be played on any standard Blu-ray set top box or PlayStation® 3 game console.
SmartSound Sonicfire™ Pro – Orchestrate the perfect sound track to accompany videos and slideshows. Use Sonicfire Pro’s unique automatic “Mood Mapping†feature or select from a library of included music tracks and adjust the mix and feel of the score to perfectly match your videos and slideshows.
BIAS SoundSoap™ – Remove unwanted noise like wind, hisses, scratches, and pops from LPs, cassettes, or almost any audio, music or video soundtrack.
LightZone™ – Produce striking photos in a simple and intuitive way. Sophisticated features such as zone mapping and relight give you the control to achieve professional quality results.
FotoMagico™ – Turn pictures into spellbinding slideshows with a few simple clicks, and then present them in high definition. Innovative text, transition and alignment tools ensure astonishing results. Burn your slideshow to DVD or Blu-ray Disc for easy viewing and sharing.
To enter: Since Toast 10 is first and foremost about burning discs, leave us a comment telling us what horrible CD or DVD you would want to burn, literally, in a bonfire. It could be a Backstreet Boys CD your aunt gave you for Christmas one year, or the extended director’s cut of Halle Berry’s Catwoman. Maybe it’s that Barney & Friends CD your kids make you play when you get in the car – plastic fumes, be damned, you know of a disc somewhere that needs burning! Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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Burn any emo! (God knows, I don’t want to remember what possessed me to get them in the first place)
Alan Parsons Project is pretty cool. Their Best of the Alan Parsons Project is ok. However, the Best of the Alan Parsons Project Volume 2 has got to go.
Up. In. Flames.
well, I try not to keep unwanted CD/DVDs but I think all pirate CD/DVDs should be burned!
Every Dora the Explorer DVD in existence – they drive me mad!
All ELMO movies must go!!!!
Play – Moby
And any movie made by Michael Bay (directed or produced) after Armageddon. in fact – if you can make it NOT BLOW UP when lighting it, that would be gravy.
BloodRayne, I just threw up in my mouth a little typing that.
Umm the very best of sash… i hate dance
showgirls
Kelly Family records.
all educational CD’s DvD’s.
I have an old David hasselhof LP. Burn burn burn !
as a german, that i am, i’d feel wrong to burn cultural goods, but if i’f forced by cruel song-writing and aweful vocals i’d pick the whole “modern talking”- discography.
(you guys from overseas: you shouldn’t google it, if you like your day ’til now)
My old Dell driver disks… still it’s better than no drivers for a windows computer O_o
high school musical (any of them) *shiver
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Stupid Crystal Skulls. BURN BABY BURN!!!
In my country there’s a show to kids hosted by a bold clown named: Yuval Hamebulbal.
I’d burn all his media and put him in an iron mask!
For children’s sake of course…
My company’s 10 year old product cd with LD video of our customers.
I’d like to burn the DVD of Tropic Thunder. I wasted 2 hours of my life last night by watching that terrible film.
Anything by the german band Pur. Most of you may not know them, and believe me I envy you.
Actually, given the coice, I wouldn’t just burn their CD’s :-)…
My sister’s Brtney Spears’s everything
Eragon DVD – the saddest excuse of a fantasy flick in a long time.
Definitely the Windows Me install cd..worst OS ever created.
“I’m Breathless” by Madonna (soundtrack for Dick Tracy)
All CD’s with “manele”, a horrible music that plays in some establishments … that I just HATE … me and 70% of my country … but still it won’t go 🙁
“Bridget Jones’s Diary” boxset. It belongs in a big fire
Every single version of Quicken/QuickBooks for Mac.
Any Uwe Boll movie!
All Michael Jackson CD’s~!
amierican pie
That would be “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Luckily, I haven’t bought it in the first place.
But I demand my ticket money back!
windows vista install disc
“The Wraith: Shangri-La” -INSANE CLOWN POSSE
Worst cd in the world
an elvis cd for my mother 🙂
This oldies-cover CD my parents bought. I like the oldies – but the remakes are awful!!!
My first 10 tries to burn the holiday DVDs for my family. Had them all ready – and then found that I had selected the last year’s holiday pics…
Anything with AOL, Real Player, Anti-whaterver, Computer Professor “try my product”, Any of the SIMS but roller coaster Tycoon for sure, oh god those out of date but still on sail Map CD-roms, anything with clowns on it, and air supply
I think it would be my old Windows ME installation cd…
Tom & Jerry for my daughter.
I burned a copy of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. I love Megan Fox and I couldn’t even get through the first 15 minutes to see Megan, I took the disc out and snapped it in to and then threw the remaining pieces into a shredder.
If I had the chance, I would burn it yet again and roast it over an open fire.
Dave Mattehews Band Every day. One of the most dissapointed presents I’ve ever gotten
well, ALL cd’s of chis brown. and all music files on all hard disks of him. so, that the radio stations never play his song again. i am not hating this artist, but every time he cames up on the radio (at home, car) my girl just turn the volume up and sing with him….. can’t sand longer…
Vista install dvd
Every last one of the music compilation’s “Now! That’s What I Call Music” volumes 1 through a million… Burn them all I tell you… They ruined my youth…
teletubbies. back in the day my sister would drive me nuts with that.
Quite frankly, I’d burn every disk of ‘Desh Drohi’ that I come across. I’ve never seen a movie more disastrous, yet so much hyped before.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158700/
All Jonas Brothers CDs.
man it’s easy
I once got an ABBA cover versions cd for filling gas in my car.
I am willing to buy gas to make that fire much bigger so I’ll know there won’t be any chance of it’s return
The dvd a survey company sent my wife to watch and analyze.
Camp Rock – OST
My students listen to it all the time, and I’m so fed up right now…