TechTool Pro 5 - MicroMat

Micromat's TechTool Pro 5.0.4 is the latest version of the company's venerable troubleshooting and data recovery toolkit. TechTool Pro packs a ton of tests and tools into one easy-to-use package... read more at Macworld

DMG Canvas - Araelium Group

DMG Canvas helps you do the same thing with your own disk images and discs using a simple WYSIWYG editor, letting you focus on the design and appearance rather than on the normally tedious process... read more at Macworld

Toast 10 Titanium - Roxio

Toast is the best-known Mac application for creating CDs, DVDs and, since version 9, Blu-ray movies, though you need to purchase a plug-in. Almost a year on, Roxio has updated Toast and the suite of applications bundled with it. Little has changed on the surface, but appearances are deceptive... read more at MacUserUK

MacBackup - Mac Ware

Its simple interface splits backup options into Easy and Advanced choices, although the difference between them is minimal. Easy backup includes options for 'Photos' and 'Music and movies' categories, or both. When you select one, you can either drag any files into the backup box, or let the program search for relevant files... read more at MacUserUK

RipIt - RipItApp

As any respectable road warrior knows, transferring movies from DVDs to your hard drive—"ripping" the discs—is great for portable movie watching. If you’ve got the hard-drive space, it means you don’t have to deal with lugging around—or worry about damaging... read more at Macworld

DVDRemaster Pro 4.4.1 - Metakine

DVDRemaster from Montreal-based Metakine is a utility that allows the recompression of dual-layer DVDs so they can fit onto single-layer, 4.7GB DVD discs... read more at MacUserUK

Ultimate DVD Player - Roni Music

Any software with the word 'ultimate' in its name had better have something special to offer. Ultimate DVD Player, however, doesn't quite live up to the accolade... read more at MacUserUK

Roxio Popcorn 3 - Roxio

Popcorn 3 converts DVDs and movie files to an even wider range of devices than before, including Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3... read more at MacLife

Adobe Encore CS3 - Adobe

Say hello to Premiere’s new best friend. Adobe Encore comes with Premiere Pro (which is also sold as part of the Adobe CS3 Production Premium suite and the CS3 Master Collection), but it’s by no means a no-frills DVD authoring application tossed in the box. Encore is a full-fledged DVD authoring app... read more at MacLife

DiskWarrior 4 - Alsoft

After a long wait, Alsoft has finally released its Universal version of DiskWarrior. This program is one of the stalwarts of disk repair for Macs, and has proven, over the years, to be one of the most reliable utilities for repairing disk directory problems. DiskWarrior both optimizes and repairs directories on hard disks, RAID volumes, FileVaults, disk images, and iPods... read more at Macworld

Disco 1.0 - MadeBySofa

When it comes to optical-disc-burning software, there's Roxio's Toast and there's everything else. So when an affordable disc-burning app like Disco comes along, you pay attention, especially when the developers claim on their website that Disco will be "last media-burning app you'll ever need." The reality is that Disco has a ways to go... read more at MacLife

Toast 8 Titanium - Roxio

For those who need more power than is offered by Mac OS X's built-in disc authoring tools, Roxio's Toast Titanium has long been the best authoring alternative... read more at MacUserUK

BounceBack Pro 7.1 - CMS Products

After you install BounceBack Pro and perform the obligatory restart, a set-up assistant appears on-screen to guide you through setting up a backup. If you have an external hard drive attached and select the default options, the software creates a bootable duplicate onto that drive. If you don’t have an external drive, the default option is to store a duplicate of your user Documents folder... read more at Macworld

Backup 3.1 - Apple

To use Backup, you begin by creating a Plan—a combination of items to back up, one or more destinations, and a schedule for each destination. You can create as many Plans as you want. To make the process as easy as possible, Backup provides several predefined templates you can use or modify to suit your needs. Or, you can use a custom template to create your own... read more at Macworld

Data Backup 2.1 - Prosoft Engineering

Prosoft Engineering’s Data Backup 2.1 offers simple options for beginners, while including numerous advanced options for power users. The first time you launch the program, it looks for an external hard drive and, if it finds one, offers to use that as the default destination; otherwise, it asks you to choose a destination. You can then drag files, folders, or an entire volume into the Sources field and click Start Now for an immediate, hassle-free backup... read more at Macworld

Retrospect Desktop 6.1 - EMC Insignia

Retrospect Desktop 6.1, from EMC Insignia, is one of four editions of the software available for Macs. The Workgroup and Server editions add features to handle large networks and computers running OS X Server; the Express edition, bundled free with numerous hard drives and optical drives, omits network backups and tape drive support. Retrospect’s design caters to the needs of network administrators... read more at Macworld

Personal Backup X4 10.4.5 - Intego

Intego’s Personal Backup X4 10.4.5 has an unmistakably friendly interface that makes backups appear quite simple. Pick a backup type, choose your source and a destination, click a button, and you’re off. Behind this easy-to-use system is a full-featured backup application with some surprisingly advanced options—and also some surprising limitations... read more at Macworld

Tri-BACKUP 4.0.4 - TRI-EDRE

Although all backup programs differ somewhat in their use of terminology, Tri-BACKUP differs more. If you want to make a bootable duplicate, the mode you choose is Direct Copy—not to be confused with Mirror Backup, which copies all files into a new folder on the destination volume. For incremental archives in which old copies of files are preserved, you choose the Evolutive Mirror Backup... read more at Macworld

PresStore 2.3 - Archiware

As storage capacities grow, traditional backup systems are finding it more difficult to get the job done. PresStore is a client-server enterprise standard backup, archive and synchronising solution that really gets to grips with the problems of dealing with large quantities of data, solving the problems with an admin-friendly approach... read more at MacUserUK

Popcorn 2 - Roxio

Our first thought when we reviewed Popcorn 1.0, Roxio's application for DVD-to-DVD copying was, 'why?' Pocorn provided an elegant way to copy content from one DVD to another and enabled you to compress the content of commercial dual-layer discs so it would fit on a regular single-layer DVD. However, it didn't (and still doesn't) allow you to make copies of encrypted DVDs... read more at MacUserUK

Fast DVD Copy 4 - Velan Software

Fast DVD Copy is an all-in-one DVD-copying program that’s designed to let you make personal or backup copies of DVDs and video games you own. After watching my child practically eat my Finding Nemo disc, I can see the use in that. The product works great, but there’s one catch: The software isn’t technically legal... read more at MacAddict

Drive Genius 1.1.5 - A M Micro

Prosoft Engineering has updated its suite of disk tools to version 1.1.5, and the headline change is compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger; indeed the CD on which the software is supplied will boot your computer into Tiger for testing. Don't get excited - you can't use it to upgrade your installed system... read more at MacUserUK

Toast 7 Titanium - Roxio

IF THERE'S ONE thing we learned from Willie Wonka (oh, but there's so much more), it is that it's lonely at the top. Corner a market, and people only expect more from you as competitors try to take your ideas. The market for Mac disc-writing software would have to be described as cornered by Roxio Toast Titanium... read more at macHOME

CopyCatX 2.5 - SubRosaSoft

IF YOU HAVE ever had a hard drive fail, you know how true it is that there's nothing like a failed hard drive to reveal the adequacy of (or lack thereof) one's backup procedures. SubRosaSoft's CopyCatX 2.5 takes a very simple approach to backing up; it sends in the clones. The program uses "device-to-device copying" instead of "file-by-file" copying... read more at macHOME

DVD2oneX 1.4.1 - DVD2one

It’s impossible to copy a commercial DVD directly with either company’s software, because neither product has the ability to remove a DVD’s CSS encryption (one of the major issues in the 321 Studios lawsuit) nor strip away Macrovision copy protection.... read more at Macworld

Drive Genius - Prosoft

ProSoft's Drive Genius is a suite of disk tools designed to analyse a hard drive, identify and fix current problems and prevent future ones. It also has a few other neat tricks up its sleeve, such as the ability to edit partitions on a disk without erasing it, edit sectors, and clone a disk .... read more at MacUserUK

Popcorn - Roxio

Roxio's Popcorn is an application that's desperately in need of a purpose. Its tag line 'Copy DVDs and Movies' seems to suggest it's the ideal way to back up your DVD collection. But further investigation reveals that it's not capable of breaking the Macrovision encryption used by all commercial DVDs. For that you'll need, as Popcorn's documentation helpfully points out, a DVD-ripping application .... read more at MacUserUK

BounceBack Professional - CMS Products

If you want to make regular backups of your entire computer, and want a program that’ll take care of it for you, BounceBack Professional might be exactly what you need. It’s designed to make full, automatic backups of your entire hard disk to an external disk or a second internal disk..... read more at Macworld

Fast DVD Copy/ Fast DVD Copy 2.1 - Velan

If you're a parent who just purchased your third copy of Finding Nemo because thrice-weekly viewings have destroyed the first two copies, or if you're a road warrior who prefers to take copies of movies with you so the originals don't get scratched, you've probably wondered how to make easy backup copies of your commercial DVDs. ... read more at Macworld

Retrospect 6.0 - Dantz

Backup programs are mission critical for all users, no matter how they earn a living. Dantz Development's Retrospect backup software, the most popular of this genre, performs full and incremental backups of local and networked Macs and saves data to a wide variety of storage devices ... read more at Macworld

TechTool Pro 4 - Micromat

TechTool Pro 4 is the first Mac OS X-native version of this popular disk utility, and its release was delayed by the need to ensure compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3. Was it worth the wait?
As you would expect of a first OS X release, TechTool Pro 4 has been completely redesigned. The main window uses the now-standard brushed-metal look, with attractive icons and clearly labelled buttons ... read more at MacUserUK

DiscBlaze 2.1.1 - Radical Breeze

S X can burn CDs and DVDs without additional software, but it does so in a fairly limited manner. If you don't need all the features of the $100 Toast 6 Titanium check out Radical Breeze's $19 DiscBlaze 2.1.1 It expands on OS X's abilities and provides all the functionality many users will ever need ... read more at Macworld

Dragon Burn 3.0 - Newtech Infosystems

While iTunes fulfills your audio playing needs, as a CD/DVD burning program, it's not marriage material. Give NTI's Dragon Burn 3 a try, and you may find yourself wrapped around its finger. ... read more at macHOME

Retrospect Desktop Backup 5.1 - Dantz Development

Retrospect Desktop Backup makes secure, incremental backups to a host of different backup media, including CD-Rs, tape drives, and network volumes. Its options are many—which, unfortunately, can make it a pain in the butt to learn ... read more at MacAddict

Toast 6 Titanium - Roxio

A Good Program Gets Even Better The Mac's built-in CD- and DVD-burning capabilities are great, but they may not be sufficient for burning a lot of CDs or DVDs. For people who demand powerful burning software, there's Roxio's Toast ... read more at Macworld

DiskWarrior 3.0 - Alsoft

Even a modern, memory-protected, and preemptively multitasking operating system such as Mac OS X can't prevent bad things from happening to the data on your hard drive. And when an unfortunate event occurs -- such as a kernel panic that forces you to reboot your machine without shutting down properly -- you want a tool that can downgrade a major disaster to a mere inconvenience ... read more at Macworld

CD Session Burner 1.0.2 - James Sentman

"Simply put, a multisession CD lets you write individual volumes until the disc is full. After each burning session, the program creates a new volume on the CD; when you mount the disc on your Mac's desktop, each volume (or session) shows up as a separate CD icon " ... read more at Macworld

Norton Utilities 7.0 - Symantec

"Norton Disk Doctor, the suite's main application, checks for a variety of problems on your disk and its files, and in most cases, it offers to fix them" ... read more at Macworld

Toast With Jam - Roxio

"if you want to professionally compile, master and reliably burn your own CDs on a Mac, this is an unbeatable package" ... read more at MacUser UK

Carbon Copy Cloner 1.2- Bombich Software

"Carbon Copy Cloner [is] a simple utility that harnesses the built-in power of OS X's Unix layer to make moving or backing up a volume as easy as clicking on a button" ... read more at Macworld

BootCD 0.2 - CharlesSoft

"BootCD almost magically does something that's otherwise all but impossible to do in OS X -- create a bootable CD that gives you access to the desktop and the Dock, complete with your personal selection of applications." ... read more at Macworld

Drive 10 - Micromat

"It's an application we all hope we'll never need: a disk fixer. Long-time Mac users, however, will know only too well that hard drives do go wrong. Data becomes corrupted, important files go walkies and sometimes entire drives refuse to play ball." ... read more at MacUser UK

Discribe 5.0 - Charismac

"The newest version of CD-burning program Discribe has many improvements--including support for Mac OS X and many more drives--but just doesn't stand up to the stiff competition posed by Roxio's Toast 5 Titanium" ... read more at Macworld

Waveburner Pro 2.0 - Emagic Software

Few applications offer full audio CD mastering and burning capability in a single package. One such package is Emagic's Waveburner Pro 2.0 ... read more at MacAddict

DiskWarrior 2.1 - Alsoft

DiskWarrior 2.1 is as solid as disk utilities come, isolating and repairing directory damage, and even preventing minor disk problems from festering into major data-corruption disasters ... read more at MacAddict

Toast 5 Titanium - Roxio

With Toast Titanium 5, you can make not only CDs but also DVDs and Video CDs (VCDs), and you can record and clean up audio from analog sources ... read more at MacAddict

TechTool Pro 3 - MicroMat

TechTool Pro has been a perennial macHOME favorite because it provides an excellent collection of tools to maintain your Mac and keep your system up to snuff. Version 3 upholds the standard, adding several new and useful features ... read more at macHOME

Discribe 4 - Charis Mac

CharisMac's Discribe 4.0 is a CD-burning application that attempts to be like Roxio's (formerly Adaptec's) Toast (see Reviews, this issue, p51) in terms of interface design and ease of use ... read more at MacAddict

Norton Utilities 6 - Symantec

Utility Adds a Handful of New Features, OS X-Beta Support ... read more at Macworld

Radialogic 1.8.1 - Prosoft Engineering

Any Mac storage device worth its salt should ship with its own device drivers. But for a select few folks who work in specialized fields, Storage Master is a good investment ... read more at MacAddict

DiskWarrior - Alsoft

a tool, making it possible to repair hopelessly trashed hard drives and restore your files to their initial, wholesome state with the click of a button ... read more at macHOME

Hard Disk Toolkit 4.0 - FWB

No hardware-fiddling Mac type should lack FWB's outstanding Hard Disk Toolkit. It provides Mac OS drivers for nearly every hard drive and magnetic removable storage device on the market ... read more at MacAddict

CD-ROM Toolkit 4.0.1 - FWB

CD-ROM ToolKit has long been considered the "king" of CD-ROM software packages. It uses several caching and read-ahead techniques for improving data transfer ... read more at macHOME

CD-ROM SpeedTools 4.1 - Intech

SpeedTools 4.1 let your Mac work with devices that Apple's stock drivers don't support. ... read more at Macworld

Toast 4 Deluxe - Adaptec

The popular CD recording program supports more machines and can record analogue sound to digital ... read more at MacUser UK

DiskRecall 1.2

DiskRecall is a shareware cataloguing utility which creates an inventory of the contents of drives, folders and FTP directories ... read more at MacUser UK

Norton Utilities 5.0 - Symantec

Popular utilities suite becomes more reliable and gets an excellent disk defragmenting tool ... read more at MacUser UK