On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.
macOS
Toast 20 Titanium and Toast 20 Pro are the latest versions of Roxio’s disc burning suites for macOS. According to the folks at Roxio, Toast Titanium 20 offers:
- New! Template Designer: Experience new customization tools to create and save your own DVD movie menu templates. Customize the font type, layout of your menu and submenus, and menu buttons. Plus, add custom backgrounds, creative frames to your menu options, music and more.
- New! Easy File Conversion: Convert photos, videos and audio files between popular digital formats quickly and easily. Simply drag in your file, choose the desired output format and press convert.
- New! Workflow Walkthroughs: Master a variety of Toast 20 workflows with new in-product walkthroughs. With on-screen guides, learn to accomplish anything from burning video, photo or audio to creating duplicate discs, converting files between formats and more.
- Enhanced! Audio Disc Burning: New flexibility when burning audio discs enables users to easily customize the metadata of added audio files. Now, choose to display custom columns like Artist, Album Art, Album Title and Genre and even include custom audio tags that will be added to the metadata of your mix when you burn to disc.
And they say Toast 20 Pro offers:
- New! WinZip Mac 9: Benefit from enhanced PDF capabilities, file backup and renowned file protection to securely store, manage and share files on your Mac with support for iCloud, Google Drive and more.
- New! Painter Essentials 8: Discover this fun and uncomplicated painting software for beginners. Sketch, draw or paint on a blank canvas using realistic Natural-Media™ brushes, or experiment with image-based AI and cloning art.
- AfterShot 3: Efficiently correct and enhance your photos and apply adjustments to one or thousands of photos at once.
- Blu-ray Disc Authoring: Burn your high-definition video to Blu-ray Disc.
Roxio Toast 20 Titanium and Roxio Toast 20 Pro are available now in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish directly from www.roxio.com. Roxio Toast 20 Titanium is available at the suggested retail price (SRP) of US$99.99. Roxio Toast 20 Pro costs $149.99.
Claris International Inc., an Apple company, has announced the general availability of ECF Records Manager, a purpose-built app created by Claris Platinum Partner, iSolutions.
The folks at Claris say it “addresses the device, data, and document retention requirements mandated by the Federal Communication Commission’s ECF (Emergency Connectivity Fund) Program.” ECF Records Manager is the first app launched as part of the Claris Smart Pack, a portfolio of ready-made Claris FileMaker apps, designed by premier Claris Partners, to help K-12 schools and libraries tackle a variety of administrative challenges in addition to data-heavy and time-consuming manual tasks, such as attendance tracking, transportation planning, event ticketing, and more.
In addition to ECF Records Manager, the Claris Smart Pack will include a variety of pre-built apps developed and licensed by premier Claris Partners. These custom apps will help schools get a jump-start on automating and managing a range of manual, repetitive tasks.
