DiscTop
This is probably one of the coolest freeware applications on the Mac that I've seen in a while. Have you ever placed a disc in your Mac's drive, only to shut it down with the disc still in there? I know I have a couple of times. Now you will never do that again, thanks to DiscTop. When you load a CD or DVD into your Mac, DiscTop displays a disc-like icon on the desktop, letting you know that you currently have a disc inserted. When you eject the disc, the icon zooms off the screen. The coolest thing about DiscTop is that when you insert a known DVD (say, The Simpsons Movie) you can set the artwork via an Amazon search and display it over top of the DVD icon. DiscTop even asks you what type of Mac you use and then positions the disc accordingly. For instance, I have an iMac Core Duo (early 2006 model), so when I use that profile DiscTop will make sure the disc's icon is positioned where the optical drive is located. Very cool!
If you want to give DiscTop a spin it's freeware and available at the developers website.
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This is probably one of the coolest freeware applications on the Mac that I've seen in a while. Have you ever placed a disc in your Mac's...
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Why wld anyone install something like this to uglify their desktop?
January 13 2008 at 5:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat site's design is a total rip-off of Doug Bowman's Stopdesign. Unbelievable.
http://www.stopdesign.com/
http://mekentosj.com/disctop/
Damn, everybody is just hating on this. It's just a little fluff/eye candy program. I've had it for years and have NEVER had a problem with it. It's cool for friends to see it work when you slide a disk into your iMac and it looks like you've sled it in just behind the glass screen. And it's actual CD/DVD size so you don't lose the little cd/dvd icon among any other items on your desktop.
January 12 2008 at 11:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI had this somewhat nice piece of eye-candy installed a while ago on my MBP. I finally uninstalled it after realizing I couldn't use the eject key on my keyboard. I _HAD_ to eject it from DiscTop. No thanks.
January 12 2008 at 11:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm sorry, for a second there I thought I was reading an Erica Sadun post.
January 12 2008 at 10:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyErica's posts make this look good.
January 13 2008 at 4:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYeah this app hit the trash can quicker than Kevin Fenderline's latest cd, but nonetheless it was worth the try.
January 12 2008 at 9:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replymost useless app of all time
January 12 2008 at 7:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Mac OS already "displays a disc-like icon on the desktop, letting you know that you currently have a disc inserted" - but thanks for this wonderful new functionality!!
January 12 2008 at 6:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWait, doesn't a CD in the drive always mount on the desktop anyway? How would it be in there w/o you knowing it?
January 12 2008 at 4:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replylooks like another case of new bloggers posting to be seen rather than posting anything news-worthy. This software has been around for years and doesn't appear to have changed much either. Its still rubbish, and IMHO, does nothing to solve the 'problem' of leaving CD or DVD discs in the drive when powered down.
Come on TUAW, this really isn't something I'd expect to find on a site of this calibre - maybe the times are changing.
not only has it been around for years, but TUAW already wrote about it 3 years ago.
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/03/11/disctop/
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