Hi all Several people have contacted me following my message of Sunday last, both on and off list, expressing an interest, regarding Toast Titanium Professional, from Roxio Inc.. Thus, I thought I would make known my initial impressions.
Actually that's quite an apt term of phrase, given Roxio's historical integration with their "Impressions" application which, I am happy to say, is now retired, well and truly consigned to the history books. Impressions was a very visually appealing, but functionally restrictive application, in the last instance, even for those who, like Lynne from whom I gleamed this information, do not require assistive accessibility tools. Toast 11 Pro, as it's now called, (the word "Titanium" having been dropped from the overall suite's title, comes bundled with a number of applications for the editing and production of photographic, sound and video content. As yet, I have not tried any of the bundled applications from third parties. But it's probably worth pointing out that they don't appear to be current versions. For instance, Adobe Elements 9 is now no longer available from Adobe in their Mac OS X product family, as I understand it. So for the moment, I will concentrate on Toast 11 alone. Actually those who don't require the bundled applications would probably b content to buy Toast 11, rather than Toast 11 Pro, as it's considerably cheaper and the Toast application is just the same. I've not tried copying anything yet, (but I shall do so very soon). But initial findings would seem to indicate a far higher degree of accessibility than in previous incarnations of the Toast application. This will possibly be significantly enhanced by the new Mountain Lion "Menu Extras" functionality available buy pressing Control+F8 or VoiceOver+M twice in rapid succession. That has always been a problem, because it is where Roxio positions its "Toast It" options. I'm going to go and plug in my Superdrive shortly so that I have 2 drives available. I will then try to make a copy of a CD which has, using NTI's DragonBurn utility, presented some ugly problems. So I will let you know. Obviously I'm not going to discuss it here, but on Windows-access which is the sister group of this one, I plan to review the Windows equivalent, "Roxio Creator 2012". I'll be interested to see how accessible that is as well. More coming on the Mac version very shortly. <--- Gordon Smith ---> This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. gor...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess <---> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
