Macworld new products...Toast, Skype, Picasa...

Cleve Nettles
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January 07, 2009
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9to5mac.com/toys is running down the Macworld Hardware and software releases today.  Some standouts:

Toast 10 was released at Macworld.  You can get it at the Roxio Store for $79 (after $20 mail in rebate).  Or Amazon has it for $85 with no rebate hassles.

  • Roxio Toast 10 Titanium is the easiest and fastest way to burn your music, video, photo and data files on to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc for both Mac and PC
  • Locate, convert and burn your favorite shows, music and data to CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs, or sync to your iPhone, iPod and other mobile devices
  • Save and convert video from many popular video sharing websites
  • Automatically capture and tag streaming audio from the Internet right into your iTunes library
  • Roxio Toast 10 Titanium is the essential complement to MacOS X and iLife for disc burning and much more

Picassa for Mac and Skype 2.8Beta are, of course, free.  We are waiting (OMG don't deny us APPLE!) for Slingplayer on iPhone

On the hardware front, get a MacBook Air from Apple for $999.

Also, OWC Offers the Newer Technologies new Voyager Q (for quad interface) eSATA, /Firewire400-800/USB SATA Hard Drive Adapter (picture below).  If you only need a USB model, Amazon has the Thermaltake for $32 (60% off).

Need a 1.5TB SATA HArd Drive to go in there?  Amazon offers a Seagate for 140 plus $8 shipping.  Or get them both for $172 (see combination deals).  Not too shabby.

Comments (3)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 07, 2009 - 11:30am

I started using Picasa the night before MacWorld, thinking I'd switch to it, since I like the PC version so much- now that iPhoto has face recognition I'm going back to iPhoto! Also I like that Skype has remote connection. Sling Player better come out on the iPhone so I can finally get some use out of my Slingbox.

Toast..well I don't use recordable media anymore.
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9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 07, 2009 - 1:13pm

I like that Picasa lets you view photos and views during the same slideshow. That the reason why I don't use iPhoto. Most cameras take pictures and videos now-a-days. I don't want to have to use iPhoto for pictures and iMovie for video. TIme to integrate the two.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 07, 2009 - 1:59pm

i love picasa, most of all because it gives you more control than iphoto. my favorite two examples:
- you have complete control over folders, and their locations. it can scan the entire drive or a single folder, as you like. i like my photos organized into separate folders by date, as god intended. ;) it even works well with removable media, which are scanned only when attached.
- it embeds your tags into the photos themselves, by default.

as for face recognition, picasa web has already had it for about 2 years, and i'm sure google could implement it on the desktop any time it wants. now that there's some competition, i'm confident they will. i don't think it's that amazing or helpful a feature, though. head-on shots work best, and my photos of friends and family aren't usually of the mug shot variety.

on the downside, ilife won't play nicely with non-apple software. that's apple's failing, however, not google's.