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ShadowBurndisc authoring made easy Retail price: $20.00 ZOT price: $5.00
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Have you ever felt that although Mac OS X’s built-in disc authoring is nice, it is at times rather limiting? Have you ever wondered what to do when a client requested a custom hybrid CD that required all the Mac-specific files to be hidden on the disc when viewed on a Windows PC? Enter shadowBurn, the painless CD/DVD burning solution that is as straightforward as anything on Mac OS X.
shadowBurn is a CD/DVD burning solution for Mac OS X 10.4 and later that uses Apple’s powerful DiscBurning APIs to ensure all disc authoring functionality provided by your system are handled perfectly and adds such much sought-after features like custom hybrid disc creation and disc overburning support for projects that just might fit on a disc, even though the official disc size does not allow the project to fit on it. The power of shadowBurn lies in its simplicity and straightforwardness. Easily accessible when placed in the Dock, shadowBurn allows you to drag and drop items you want to burn onto its icon or the project window once shadowBurn is open. You can even optionally install the shadowBurn Finder plug-in which allows you to add items to your burn project from the Finder’s contextual menu, this way you don’t even have to keep shadowBurn in the Dock. This can be useful when your Dock is already overcrowded with valuable applications in the first place or your screen is too small and you would like to keep your Dock nice and clean.
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October 5th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Why promote Disco so much and then throw this at us???
I think I’ll stick with Disco.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:07 am
Probably because not everyone signed up for Disco… I did though! I can’t wait for it to be done.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:21 am
To turn that another way —
Why recreate this wheel with the name of a DJ app, when you coulda worked witht his dev’s underlying tech and created a fabuluous new overlayer, in half the time or less?
Q: How many apps does it take to burn a CD?
October 5th, 2006 at 1:33 am
waiting for disco
October 5th, 2006 at 1:45 am
I’ll wait for Disco thanks.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:07 am
Betraying Austin’s Disco application before it is even released?
October 5th, 2006 at 2:09 am
Can it burn audio disks with Apple DRM protected songs? Can it burn an audio DVD? Between Apple’s tools and Toast, those are the only features I am looking for.
BTW I am disappointed with the ShoeZot. Thats two times I felt like “so what.” I guess that just isnt for me. I repeat my earlier suggestion that a percentage (10%) of all mystery zots be given to a charity so at least some good comes of it.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:19 am
Ditto… waiting for Disco. Still &£*”^%$ about the ShoeZot.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:30 am
There was a MacZOT! had an app, Disco was its name-o.
D-I-S-C-O.
D-I-S-C-O.
D-I-S-C-O. And Disco was its name-o.
This zot will forever walk in Disco’s shadow. Don’t burn us anymore, ok?
How about making it up to us with a $5 TextMate instead?
October 5th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Agree with comments above. This one really doesn’t make sense given the Disco hype. And when’s our beta of Disco coming, incidentally? Be nice to have more regular updates for those who bought in (as supposed to all and sundry who can read the blog) as “insiders” – who effectively pre-funded the app’s development.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:45 am
Toast!
October 5th, 2006 at 4:53 am
Come on people. We ASKED for more new apps, why complain about this one like ZOT is doing some huge injustice.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:37 am
First, I wish they’d improve the site navigation. I’m logged in on one page, but not this one, apparently.
Second, the charity idea is a bad one. Nothing is stopping you from donating, on your own.
Third, not everybody got in on the DiscoDeal. $5 is cheap, and it seems to offer at least one, maybe two features I don’t see in Toast or Disk Utility.
You can’t please all the people all the time.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:40 am
It is kind of peculiar that they’re offering this but lonniehb makes a good point. At least it isn’t a repeat (as far as I know).
Orig_Club_Soda – I think the charity discussion was played out enough on the other thread. If you want to give to charity so badly, go ahead. MacZot is a business. In fact, they are struggling to keep up with this business model why would you want them to throw in more complexity. Plus, I hate being forced to give part to a chairty as a purchase – let the company do it on their own too and not part of a marketing ploy.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:45 am
I grow tired of the whining on here about software not being to some people’s liking. Control your spending. To even suggest the charity idea is to me like being a sore loser in a game and wanting to change the rules.
I’m completely against a charity being involved with this. It’s more overhead which means prices would likely go up. It doesn’t really serve the MacZOT team any benefit, nor the developers, nor the visitors here except maybe a handful who think they need something to rationalize to themselves as to why they spent money on something that they learned later that they don’t like.
All in all maybe certain people need to rethink how they use this site. I use it more as a means to learn about new software coming out and it’s worked out great for that. To get great deals on the software is just that much better. I chose to skip the ShoeZOT as frankly I drew a complete blank on the story. I could have lost out on a great piece of software(s) but I’m fine with what I did. They were both intriguing but it would have been $6 spent on something to toy with and then not get used. I could do the same with trial periods and save the $6.
I’ve got some great software through MacZOT and will say that if charity money goes into this in the future, I’ll probably curtail my visits here. I want charity money going to where I want it to go if it’s my money.
If you want to do charities, then send the money directly there. Pretty simple really.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:13 am
Wow I don’t think I have been this dissapointed in people in a long time. I give to charities at work and at home. I try to help out when and where I can. But the attitude on here is me me me me. I still think that the CharityZot is a good idea, but with this crowd…I guess it would not fly.
As far as this app goes, I will probably buy it because I need a burning solution now. And I don’t even know how good of an app Disco will be.
The ShoeZot was great and I know I will get some use out of those.
You people complain to much. MacZot is not here to server only you. It serves lots of people. If you are not happy with the day’s deal, then wait for one that you are rather than whine about it.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:23 am
Wow,
Everyone here is so negative, I have purchased almost every mystery style zot they have had here, I agreea little dissapointment, but who cares, combined I have only ever spent around $100 bucks on this site. You also have to realize, that everyone complained for more apps, Brian gets approached by Software Vendors as well as trying to contact them, when a company calls you up and says, I am going to give you this deal on our software package, you can sell it for whatever you want, you think he is going to turn around and be like “Sorry, no can do, we have already been talking about a burning app”.
Ok sure ;P
October 5th, 2006 at 6:24 am
People should be able to choose to which charities they give. I dedicate all of my charitable giving to one particular cause because it’s something I’m passionate about. There are some causes I just don’t want to support. It would be like donating 10% of each Zot to sale to a political party without the buyer being allowed to specify which one.
If you want to donate to charity, fantastic. Take your pick of the causes that need your support. It just isn’t necessary here. That doesn’t mean these people are bad individuals for wanting to know exactly where their money goes.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:46 am
Not complaining but just my vote…
Waiting on Disco.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:08 am
Sean – glad you give to charity but why is it “me me me” when I don’t want to clutter up this business model with something as silly as a forced charity contribution?
This sounds like the annoying person who goes and tries to guilt their employers into giving more to a charity they are pushing (yes, more, as most companies do make charitable contributions) so they feel better about themselves.
Leave Zot the way it is. If you don’t like the deal, wait for another. If you don’t like the potential to be disappointed, don’t participate in MysteryZots.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:31 am
It was interesting to see read some of the comments. I don’t quite understand the whole hype about Disco.
I don’t deny that I got really excited when I first heard about Disco. The icons looked amazing, but of course noone knew what it was going to do. Then when they announced that it was going to burn dics, I was very disappointed.
There are quite a few disc burning apps out there. In fact, i have been using shadowBurn myself for a while. It does everything that I need to do and it is incredibly simple to use.
Some of you are acting as if Disco was the only disc burning application out there… and the fact is there are already a few out there. And some of those are really nicely done and simple to use.
I would recommend shadowBurn to anyone who is looking for a great all around disck burning solution. Yes, it may not have all the power features, but it is probably one of the cleanest, easiest to use disc burning solutions out there. Undeniably a Mac OS X application and beats the price of some of the more complex solutions.
Give it a shot, most of you will probably end up liking it, a LOT.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Classic. People complaining about people complaining. WhingeZOT!
October 5th, 2006 at 8:38 am
@Peter
Agree on all accounts: stop whining, people! I paid $6 for the ShoeZOT and wasn’t terribly excited by the result. But that’s what I gambled for — and I might win big time on the next one. I should also mention that some people may have been thrilled by the ShoeZOT… that’s just the way it works.
Bottom line: no one likes a sore loser.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:43 am
I also passed on the ShoeZot as I just felt that it would probably have software I wouldn’t really use, and it turned out to be just that for me. The anagram for us Zotgeisters didn’t help me at all. Oh well, I’m sure it will get better. I took the chance of missing out on something great, but that is the choice I and everyone has to make on the Mystery-style-Zots. For someone else it may be an awesome deal, and that is what MacZot is all about.
I am also going to wait on Disco instead of purchasing the current selection, but to say that MacZot is undercutting Disco is wrong as there may be others who did not purchase Disco and who still need a good disc burning tool or maybe some just don’t want to wait on Disco. Besides we don’t know exactly what Disco is going to do, so we may need a tool like this as well. Again that’s the chances we all take on purchasing new unknown software.
If you don’t want to take a chance on buying something unknown, just don’t buy and stop complaining if you do or don’t buy. I also say to leave MacZot the way it is and do not add Charity to the mix, as I also want to send my charity money to a cause I am passionate about and it may be different that MacZot or everyone else here may want to support.
I enjoy MacZot as it gives me the opportunity to see new software and get great deals. I also enjoy the mysteries, although they can be nerve racking not knowing and wondering whether I made a good deal or not, but it makes it exciting and fun too. Just don’t over do it.
Let’s all have fun and enjoy the great deals.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:53 am
No charities, please. Thats just a bad idea.
Seriously, if you are pissed about what you get in the mystery zots STOP BUYING THEM. If people stop paying for them then the MacZot people will stop doing them.
They keep doing them because they know a lot of people will throw money down on the chance for something good. If they stop turning a profit on them they won’t do them as often.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:58 am
I really don’t see the issue with charity unless it raises the price. Other than that, who cares?
October 5th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Today’s entry in the Disco blog has an extensive description of its features:
http://discoapp.com/blog/?p=15
October 5th, 2006 at 10:19 am
lol…someone complaining about people complaining about people complaining. This could get funny.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Burn is also a great alternative. Cool software, cheap price, but I dont burn enough to warrant it.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Looks nice, and I’m a big contextual-menu fan from my only-PC days. $5.00 is a really good price for a burning program (they always seem overpriced to me).
But, I bought Disco, so I’ll wait for that :)
October 5th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I like the integration with the finder and the ease of use. I burn a lot of disks in a day, 50+ yesterday. It’s always nice to have another tool. The version of Toast I have does not allow for hybrid video/data cds, which it looks like this product does.
I like the interface and the price is right and I can always use another tool for burning. I wish I had seen the option to buy into Disco. While the weird wiz-bang features did nothing for me, I did like it’s intent. I wish MacZot hadn’t just forwarded the site to Disco’s for that annoying few days.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I’m rather taken with John’s word, WhingeZOT!. What could the nice MacZOT! folks offer to produce the greatest whinge factor in the Discuss section? Would it be another mystery-style zot? How about a day-to-day, micropay zot — perhaps LayawayZOT!.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Maximum whinge factor would be a 14 day ZOT where we would be required to pay $1 each day in separate PayPal transactions, of which $13 would go to a charity grafting tails onto Manx cats, and the remaining $1 gets you a copy of xPad…ZOTgeisters would get a clue in the form of an anagram, except in ancient Sanskrit, and carved on the side of a melting iceberg. On another planet.
Even if I haven’t always had total satisfaction, MacZOT! is fun, livens up my day, and in between whinging there have been some great comments on software which have helped me make choices. They came out of nowhere with a fresh, interesting way of selling software and I believe they help smaller developers get the word out on their apps.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
If you can handle really bad menu icons – LiquidCD – is a good app to look up. Could certainly hold anyone over until disco.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
WhingeZot for me would be a copy of xPad, where if 50,000 copies weren’t sold at full price, every other Zot for the rest of the month would be a daily mystery ZOT with a 1 in 10 chance it would be an amazing app, and a 9/10 chance it’s a non-giftable copy of xPad.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
You do know that several of you are spelling Whine wrong, unless of course you are British or Australian where Whinge is spelled correctly. Bloody Hell.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Yeah I’m a Brit…we spell stuff correctly…and write dates the right way round…and whinge… ;)
October 5th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
whingZot is a fabulous idea!
I can’t speak for anyone else on here, bu ti cpeak simply to hear myself speak,
and that boosts my self-esteem. :wink:
October 5th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
That’s not a typo……
it’s an anagram!
October 5th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
You guys (not all certainly) should really try to appreciate the work that is being done on macZot a little more. I agree, there are some points that could be discussed and some things to fulfill. But I am sure it’s not too easy, looking for new apps each and every day (not to speak of things like zotGeist). I mean, what should MacZot do? People ALWAYS complain, no matter what is done here. Personally it would make me sick if I had to do the work and would read some of the quite unfair comments in here. I just fear that someday you will have to complain about MacZot closing its doors. How would you like that?
October 5th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
@Cameron:
The charity addition would matter because there are some charities I choose NOT to support. What if, by chance, one of those charities was chosen… if it was a ZOT I really wanted, at a great price, I wouldn’t buy it if $1 was going to a charity whose policies I happen to disagree with.
Better to just leave the charity thing out. Kudos to whoever came up with the idea — it was a good idea — but upon further reflection, I think it would take more away from Zot than it would add. If you want to give, give on your own. Let Zot be Zot.
And about the complaining — we are just trying to voice our opinion to Zot for possible future consideration of what (some) customers want. It’s not really complaining usually, it’s an attempt at constructive criticism or suggestion.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
@ Greenie:
There is simple accountability. When things are promised and are not delivered, “complaining” is justified. Most of the comments are not at all unfair. Do you think people or businesses should not have to deliver as promised?
If someone gives their $ for a MysteryZot, then is disappointed, well, that’s more debatable… if you gave your $, then you were willing to take the chance. As long as there were no promises broken all is well. I didn’t give my $ this time because the ShotZot was too vague to be worth the risk for me, and I made the right choice (for me) this time.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Thank you all for your input, whether it rolled right out of your mind or you spent time in consideration.
Here’s what’s going on from our Inside-MacZOT perspective.
1. We’re doing things that we haven’t done before (and often times others haven’t either – though they might soon.)
2. As the popularity of MacZOT increases, the current systems are being stretched like the industrial spandex used in some of those yo-mama jokes mentioned previously.
We’re working on this and are pleased to announce – althought informally here in the blog – that each day we’re making the site better for you.
3. We’re 100% accountable no matter what. That means, if you purchase something from MacZOT, we’ll provide the serial and you can feel confident of that.
What’s nice is that most of the items are shareware, so you can begin using them as soon as you get the download link (which on the mystery items might be another day.)
There is so much great feedback. If I can do anything, I’ll make a commitment today to provide a state of the ZOT so you can feel confident you’re being heard.
We’ll put those in the ZOT! category of blog posts.
Direct feedback or comments are happily received there as well as anywhere.
We’ll say this: MacZOT would be nothing without you – the loyal Mac enthusiast.
Send comments; send suggestions; exchange contact info and go see a movie. I personally am looking forward to the new Scorsese film coming out tomorrow.
Cheers
ZOT!
October 5th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
@Chris
While I understand that having a charity might preventing you from getting an app you want through ZOT, you’d still fully be able to purchase it outside of ZOT. Charity types things aren’t always about selling the most copies, but rather supporting a worthwhile cause. If it’s a cause that makes you not want to buy, what makes that any different from any other ZOT you don’t want to buy?
I’m not saying every mystery ZOT should have a charity element, but if Brian wants to do a CharityZOT, more power to him.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
@Cameron
Yes, I’d be fully able to purchase it outside ZOT, but not at the ZOT discount. That’s my point. If it was a charity ZOT that was not connected to an app, then it’s a CharityZOT, and that would be the same as any other ZOT. Otherwise, it changes it. If ZOT wants to do a charity ZOT, that’s his right. I’m just “voting” that I no longer think it’s the best idea in practice. But, whatever, it really doesn’t matter to me. I come here to get good deals on apps, and I give separately when I can and feel it’s appropriate.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Why the fascination with Charity ZOTS? Leave things as they are, please no Chairty ZOTs.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
>you’d still fully be able to purchase it outside of ZOT.
You’d still fully be able to donate to charity outside of ZOT.
>but if Brian wants to do a CharityZOT, more power to him.
I must have missed something here, but I didn’t see Brian venture any suggestion about a charityZOT. Did he say he was considering it? IF this was HIS idea, well it IS HIS site and I guess he has partners. They can do what they want. It looked to me that this was NOT his idea, but some customer-poster.
So be disappointed all you want. You are NOT the only one who gives to charities at home and “at the office”. It’s pretty arrogant of you to be “disappointed”, but that is your choice.
Some of the complaints have been valid. You can only use so many copies of AppZapper and xPad. But the offerings are more varied of late even if we’re not getting CS3 for $6.95
MysteryZots ARE a gamble, and I haven’t done too bad. As long as I don’t get the same apps, or the only one of the apps I wanted is sold the next day for less, I’m willing to take a chance.
A lot of the complaints are so much whining, and not particularly constructive. They’re the “I want Final Cut Pro for $10!”. macZot is a shareware buffet. ZOT will not get Wolfgang Puck to cater it, and not everyone will want every or any app. Some will like the MysteryMeal, and others will hate it when they find out it’s blood meat. Oh well.
>Some of you are acting as if Disco was the only disc burning application out there…
Not true. Not one bit. Some of us are acting like we’ve paid for Disco, so we don’t feel like paying for any additional burn apps, as there are quite a few disc burning apps out there. I’ve got Toast, and don’t see anything incredible/amazing/awsome about Disco, but it was a mysteryZot. I’ve never needed anything other than Disc Utility and Toast, and don’t need Disco. So for me even $5 is too much for YABA (Yet Another Burn App).
I don’t want to make supporting burn app authors my charity.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Oh, word.
If you want to really throw your money at a charity do what I did and join Americorps.
Or do the Dave Ramsey thing, and set aside an envelope. Everyday, place a certain amount in that envolope. If you seomthing on MZ you want, use that money to buy it. Whatever you have left at the end of the month – give to charity.
When MZ gets big enough, it’ll make good tax sense for them to give charitable contributions. THEN we’ll see them do so, and promote it, just like every other for-profit entity.
Now, if someone can have pity on me and “charity” me into ZotGeist, that wuld be perfect.
hindsight is 20-20. Our spending impulses aren’t.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
@SoftwareJunkie
“ZOT said,
October 2, 2006 @ 11:34 pm
I like the idea of CharityZOT!
Let’s make a list of Charities.
ZOT!”
Moreover, some people will only give if they get something in return. It’s not an ideal world moment, but if Brian wants to encourage people to give, why not?
October 6th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Wow you guys really freaked out about the charity idea!? I am astounded. To hate charities so much comes across as a mental disorder… I saw a little charity to other s who may need computers or software as a nice way to feel good about the purchase regardless of the software. As for the guy complaining “what if it was an app I really wanted but I hate the charity.” That makes no sense because I was suggesting it only for the mystery zots….
If there was a huge discussion, I was unaware. I’ll have to go look.
As for my comments regarding ShoeZot, they were regarding shoe zots and mystery zots. Not MacZot the site. I love make MacZot the site. Thats why I bought the ShoeZot and and other apps and visit every day – even on the weekends!