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Another day, another new version of Toast. Ultimately, our verdict tends to be consistent: it's the best disc-burning app, it's pricey but bundles well-designed and useful software, and it's not a particularly compelling upgrade if you already own the previous version. But there are some things worth noting in this new release, so let's delve in.

Gone are the days when you'd have to head down to the store and pick up a slideshow maker, a video maker, a video capture tool, a CD burning tool, an image editor and so on and so forth

The digital media landscape hasn't exactly plateaued in the past few years, as was once predicted. If anything, the ever-expanding proliferation of portable devices and media formats has made it rockier than ever before

Easy Media Creator is a suite of programs aimed at those wanting to create various types of CD and DVD media. This includes videos and slideshows, as well as data, audio and back-up discs.

Like Nero, Easy Media Creator can create pretty much any disc type you care to think of, as well as offering video conversion and a comprehensive DVD authoring package that really does make creating your own DVDs a very simple task indeed.

As much as the large DVD authoring companies pride themselves on their full DVD burning suites, the most common recording and compression of videos is for YouTube and the iPod.

The amount of media we now consume is on the increase. Also, the number of formats you can convert your digital media into is steadily on the increase, so it makes sense to have a software tool that can handle them without fuss

Roxio's Crunch is another program designed to fill a gap in the market that Apple has left wide open for no well explored reason. In essence, the problem is that Apple TV and the video iPod will only play movies encoded in particular formats

Roxio Copy and Convert review: Copy and Convert uses the same engine as Roxio's complete data back up suite, Easy Media Creator. This is undoubtedly a good thing, as the Roxio's well honed interface provides the most intuitive backup environment out there

Demanding a series of blank DVDs, an original Windows XP CD and four floppy discs before you back-up a system will lose you roughly 40 per cent of your score in any discerning review.

Roxio MyDVD 8 Premium is a set of DVD authoring tools aimed at thehome user. It allows you to copy video footage to DVD with professionallooking menus and navigation tools.

For many of us, Toast has become so indispensable that life without itis unimaginable. This may sound rather dramatic, but think about it...true isn't it? It's also hard to imagine how Roxio could improve onsuch a solid and reliable piece of software

The iPod is a popular focus for enterprising shareware developers - asearch on software repository MacUpdate. com turns up 163 iPodutilities. Now Roxio has brought together five of the best pieces ofiPod/ iTunes software

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