“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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The High Scool Musical X (X between 1 and 11) to my friend^^
Eddie Rabbitt: All Time Greatest Hits.
(But please don’t tell my wife).
Windows Vista. Even though I don’t own it. I would go out and buy it, just so I could burn it up.
I’d burn one of the DVDs that I made with windows software before I switched to Mac & Toast – a surprising number have glitches when I try to play back today
Moulin Rouge (2001 remake). Whoever told Nicole Kidman and Ewon MacGregor they could sing was living in a fantasy world. Ewon needs to stick to lightsabers and Kidman needs to just go away…
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – BIG disappointment to all who watched it.
we have this old Adam Sandler CD we were so excited to get – it’s the worst comedy album I’ve ever listened to. Please, burn before listening.
Every single driver cd related to my old windows-based computer.
Donna Summers Anthology…and don’t ask why I still have it.
my entire collection of AOL disks
an old nsync album (no strings attached)
remember those AOL cds….
burn them!!!!
Anything Spice Girls
Any Lara Croft – Tomb Raider DVD.
Thanks, Doc!
Chaka Demus and Pliers’ Greatest Hits
I’d like the master copy of the new “Day The Earth Stood Still” DVD burned and destroyed.
No one should be afflicted with that piece of carp.
High School Musical. I once saw 3 seconds of one of the movies. AAA!
anything by Limp Bizkit
The Little Mermaid.
When I worked at Hills Department Store in the electronics department (YEARS ago), that’s the only video that we were allowed to play over the christmas Season. I saw that move hundreds of time and I go into a rage everytime I see it any more. Thank God I don’t have a daughter.
Anything ever recorded by Barry Manilow
Bye-bye, Baby Einstein!
If they put Princess Caribou on a DVD then I would take that DVD and torch it, the package the ash/goo and ship it to the fake country she was from. Included would be a brief but heartfelt note asking for those 2 hours of my life back.
Tarzan OST by Phil Collins. Burn it!
Taylor Hicks…
I’ll throw my Vista Ultimate CD into the fire with the others. Burn, baby, burn!
Any Iron & Wine CD. Especially “Our Endless Numbered Days”
That is If it doesn’t put me to sleep first…
Any of the Saw movies, except for the first one!
On Golden Pond — Criterion Collection
Star Trek Nemesis
Any Windows CD
The Kirby Stone Four with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra “The ‘Go’ Sound”
All of those stupid CDs that come with every little gadget that has nothing more than the PDF manual and the out of date software that will be downloaded from the web anyways.
The movie “Titanic” and the damn Celine Dion soundtrack that goes with it.
any guindows me cd
Santa Clause 2
MAMA MIA needs to be burned while getting it from RAMBO
The Tweenies DVD my parents bought for my daughter, it’s killing me!
Any old DVD they re-released a collector’s edition of.
All-4-One’s self titled cd. First one I ever owned. Scarry.
Anything that says High School Musical 1, 2, or 3 on it!!!!
My son’s Elmo DVD. He watches it every day. It makes my eyes and ears bleed.
80s One hit wonders
Any of the HARD HAT HARRY child-oriented “Look, this is a fire engine! These are it’s ladders! These are where the hoses are kept!” videos. Or all of them. AND their cleverly re-branded, (look out for the fine print on the back that confesses it’s really a Hard Hat Harry) “All About… (insert your favorite construction vehicle here)” discs, too. Yeah, them too. Is that too many?
I would really love to burn a DVD of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, for disappointing me so much after a 20 year wait!
Nightfall
i want to burn my father’s copy of “the man from snowy river” i have learned to despise it.
Everyime, by Purpose. a friend bought got it for me, can’t remember if i listen to more than 2 songs on this thing.
Photo with me and my ex-girlfriend..
I hadn’t burned it, i destroyed it, far the same 🙂
I would want to burn the DVD in a bonfire of me at some “Beauty Walk” contest in like 1990. I was 8, and it was awful and something I hope the world never sees.
The movie Ishtar. My mom dragged me and two cousins to see it when it came out in the 80’s. What a horrible movie.