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A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacUpdate to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least 11 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $467.82 value if all purchased separately) including:
• Toast 11 Titanium ($99) - Burn CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs
• Data Rescue 3 ($99) - Recover files and corrupt hard drives
• FX Photo Studio Pro 2 ($39.99) - Post-processing photo editor with 159 effects
• Fantastical ($19.99) - Natural language calender scheduling
• iStat Menus 3 ($16) - Monitor your system from the menubar
• PhoneView ($19.95) - Access your iPhone's voicemail, SMS, and more
• Concealer ($19.95) - Stores information such as credit cards safely
• EarthDesk 5 ($24.95) - Replaces your desktop picture with a realtime rendered image of Earth
• Mellel 2 ($29) - Word processor for writers, scholars, technical writing and multilingual word processing
• Bookends 11 ($99) - Bibliography/reference and information management system
MacRumors is a promotional partner with MacUpdate. Bundle sales through these links benefit MacRumors financially, and provide a way for readers to directly support this site. Buy all 10 apps for $49.99.
The first 10,000 buyers also get Printopia for free ($19 value).
Top Rated Comments
I didn't even know there was a version 11 already.
I haven't downloaded the last 3 updates for version 10 yet. [rant] they really need to put in a self updater in the app, not require customers to create an account to download an update.[/rant]
Be careful here. The version in the bundle is NOT the PRO version!
I got burned in the previous bundle, which I bought to clean up audio files from vinyl, only to find out that the SoundSoap application is not included.
Considering a 33MB, free, open-source app bests it at performing its most rudimentary function (burn. a. disc.), Toast is a bloated, buggy piece of garbage and I'll never go near it ever again.
Could be your hardware. I've been using Toast since v5 and coasters have been a rarity for me. I only use Verbatim discs. Most discs out there are made by a handful of manufacturers and even "brand name" ones can be the same garbage as the .02 generic brand. Also have to make sure the discs are fresh as they do "expire."
Of course I will agree that Toast's usefulness 4 month toward 2012 is limited because DVD-R, CD-R is one foot in the grave, but generally I have no complaints with it.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/pro/why-upgrade.html
here is a comparison of the recent products.