“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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I want to burn the Metalica CD “St. Anger”, what can i said. Burn in piles
Any stupid show like “Saved By The Bell” …. Vista burns itself upon installation.
All those AOL CD’s you used to get in the mail
Britney Spears’ first album
A friend bought the original “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” DVD for me on eBay for 99¢ as a joke. (It stars John Travolta in his teens.) It is just awful.
Mammamia
All the demo CD’s that are included with magazines that I haven’t gotten round to throwing away yet.
anything with the name toby keith on it…
Anybody have a copy of the Finger 11 CD with the song “Paralyzer” on it. I haven’t even heard the rest of the CD but that CRAP A$$ song has been so overplayed that I would absolutely love to burn the entire CD!
my youngest use to watch a teletubbies dvd, which I think caused me more brain damage than any drinking could have
any lil wayne cd
My collection of AOL coasters/CDs.
ANY Windows OS CD/DVD! Particularly, Vista!
Microsoft Office cd
ice ice baby!
I’ll catch hell for this from the older kids, but Rod Stewart has got to go. If I could get Rod Stewart and Aerosmith to stand close to the fire, even better
All of the CDs that AOL has been sending me through the mail… they’ve been so annoying!
Any film or cd Shaq made, but if I had to pick one… it’s either Kazaam or Steel.
Anything with a guy dressed up as a purple dinosaur!!!!
Sisterhood of the traveling pants!
A repeat, but all those AOL CDs.
The Ring
All Barney DVDs, preemptively. My kids have never seen Barney, and so help me God they never will.
Vista CD
Anything New Kids on the Block and Every single legal copy of windows I own!!!!!
All of my Windows Install CDs
The wedding video starring my ex-wife!
Anything by nickelback
Bad Lieutenant. Bad movie. Bad Harvey Keitel.
I guess I could give up my complete Vixen discography.
It would definitely have to be the Disney “Sing Along Songs” videos that I had to watch over and over and over again when my kids were young! I can still sing all the words to most any Disney song you can throw at me because of those $^@%$~! tapes!
Barney
ME and Vista install disks.
Bad lieutenant was a great movie, who wouldn’t want to see full frontal Harvey Keitel?
The Spice Girls “Spiceworld” album.
Snow! I hate that Informer song. Ah crap, I said it and now it’s going to start playing in my head….NOOOOO!
windows vista disks
The bad asian chicks porno that I got as a gag gift….
The High School Musical singing game for the Wii my sister gave to my daughter for Christmas. That thing needs to be broken in to tiny bits, fed into an industrial shredder and lit on fire. Matter of fact it really needs to be lit on fire at the studios of Disney and Bink… so they know never to make some crap like this again!
Metalica CD St. Anger
A milli Vanilli CD i made from an old cassette.
I know, it’s embarrassing.
Windows Vista
All Mac OS X install DVDs 🙂
Earth Girls are Easy
How about blank ones?
We once spent an afternoon charting how long it would take a blank CD to arc and flash in a microwave under various settings. you should try it some time.
As far as other uses of a disk, some friends once played frisbee golf with an old vinyl album (remember those?) When they told one gal that they just finished playing frisbee golf with Led Zeppelin, she was all like ‘wow, that’s awesome! are they still here? Can I meet them?’
Spice Girls, why is that disc even in my cd collection ;_;
Anything by Celine Dion must burn in the fires of hell.
Disaster movie is a real DISASTER. BURN THE ******** thing
Believe it or not, my dad’s DVD of Casablanca. No, I know, it’s a good movie. However, my dad seems to think that they stopped making movies after around 1965, and never wants to watch anything made during my lifetime. I’ve seen that stupid Casablanca DVD enough times for a lifetime, and now…it. needs. to. burn.
Most of the crappy 90’s music that I seem to have accumulated when I was at University, mainly through those CD programs where you buy two CDs and get a bunch free… what a waste of money now!!!
a cher maxi