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Mac Blu-ray Player software plays HD movies on your Mac

by Mel Martin (Aug 16th, 2012)

Want to play a Blu-ray disc on your Mac? Apple doesn't include Blu-ray as an option, but they are readily available through 3rd parties like Amazon or Other World Computing. You'll also need software to play the disc, which is where the Macgo Blu-Ray Player comes in. I reviewed the Macgo ...

10.7 Lion upgrades expected to come via Mac App Store

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 4th, 2011)

It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the Mac App Store is likely to be the preferred method for installing and updating OS X 10.7 Lion. AppleInsider reports that the next version of Mac OS X is going to ship digitally via the MAS, with optical media available as a backup for users on slow ...

Rumor: Apple buys 12 petabytes of video storage for iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Apr 6th, 2011)

According to a site named StorageNewsletter.com, Apple has picked up a whopping 12 petabytes of data storage from a company named Isilon Systems. Supposedly, the new hardware (which makes Apple one of Isilon's biggest customers) will be used for storing video for iTunes, though because this ...

OS X Lion preview ably demonstrates that disc is dead

by Erica Sadun (Feb 24th, 2011)

Today's cloud-based release of the OS X 10.7 Lion preview adds one more nail to the coffin of removable media. Last September, TUAW declared that the disc is dead. Apple's move today, in releasing Lion through the online Mac App store, helps reconfirm that DVDs and CDs are headed the way of the ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Burn baby burn

by Erica Sadun (Sep 16th, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Is iTunes slowly encouraging the death of CDs? The burn icon at the bottom of the interface has disappeared as you can see in this screen shot. Concerned, Your nephew Sean ...

A big bag of Blu-Ray hurt for Apple

by Mike Schramm (Oct 15th, 2008)

Just the other day I was wondering on this very site just where Blu-Ray has been on Macs, and yesterday's big Apple event gave us the answer: Blu-Ray, according to Steve Jobs, is just "a big bag of hurt." Apple says they haven't settled on an HD format yet because no one else has either: "the ...

Terminal Tip: Burning a disc

by Cory Bohon (Aug 12th, 2008)

Are you a Terminal geek (or wannabe, but not the pop star type)? If so, did you know that you can burn discs right from the Terminal window with a simple command and a drag/drop? Just enter the following command followed by the path to a folder or disk image: drutil burn filehere Don't type the ...

Mac Automation: Burn a backup disc of recent iPhotos

by Cory Bohon (Jun 17th, 2008)

Time Machine is great way to backup your entire Mac, but what if you want to make a single backup of your recently imported photos in iPhoto? Well, Automator for Leopard is here to help with this task. In this how-to, I will show you how to find photos taken in the last 2 months and burn the ...

DiscTop

by Cory Bohon (Jan 11th, 2008)

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 ...

Free Disco for your friends!

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 31st, 2006)

But... only if you took advantage of yesterday's macZOT offer! I see as of this morning Disco is still available for $14.95, so maybe the freebie is still valid. Apparently when you register, the surprize (sic) is revealed: another license to give away to a friend. That's a brilliant way to spread ...