Metakine Mini Bundle
The Metakine Mini Bundle is a special opportunity to save almost 90% on 10 amazing apps from Metakine that no Mac user should be without. Save almost $300 on 10 must-have apps that will help you manage your DVDs, protect your Mac, and perfect your pictures. Be sure you download the trial and try the apps for yourself.
The full list of apps in this mini-bundle are:
DVDRemaster
Mac DVD Ripper
Hands Off!
Aurora
Back In Focus
Decompose
Magic Launch
Video Rotate
Processes
Photo Batch
DVDRemaster
DVDRemaster recompresses large DVDs so they can be burned on a standard DVD or converts them so they can be watched on your video iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad Apple TV and many others. DVDRemaster accommodates both novices and experts with its simple but yet powerful interface.
DVDRemaste also allows you to extract raw data streams from your DVD. These can be reused in other applications.
Features:
Soft subtitles: Switch subtitles on and off as you please and preserve subtitles in mutliple languages. Resolution-independent subtitles are always displayed at the best quality possible for your device, big or small.
Custom cropping: Manually customize the removal of black borders and get a highly precise cropping when using this feature in combination with the preview feature.
Fine-tune your selection: With additional and more detailed information about the size of each element, you can now better fine-tune the remasterization of your movies and shows
Preserve mutiple audio tracks: when converting your movies and shows for your video player. This is ideal to retain several languages or audio commentaries.
Faster than ever: with its new enhancements, you will have access to your DVDs, movies and shows even quicker.
Surround sound: enjoy the full surround sound experience. The high-quality surround material is preserved when converting your movies and shows for your Apple TV.
Convert to video players even faster: bring your movies and shows onto your video players faster with improved H.264 support. You can now convert to H.264 using turbo.264 thus freeing you computer so you can work on what matters to you.
DVD backup made easy: From viewing your movies to selecting the languages you wish to keep and burning the final backup DVD, everything is built into a simple but yet powerful interface.
Recompress with ease: No need to worry about complicated settings; everything is summarized into easy to use presets. Simply select a destination device and you are readyto go.
Convert for video players: Watching your favorite movies and shows on the road using your video iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone or enjoying them at home on your Apple TV has neverbeen easier.
Automatically include movie information: Easily locate and classify movies in your library using titles, genres andmany others. Finding the movie you are looking for is now a piece of cake.
Prepare and execute multiple conversions: Never run out of movies to watch again. Prepare several conversion tasksahead of time and let DVDRemaster execute them without supervision.
Easily navigate between chapters: It is easier than ever to find scenes in a movie on your iPod, iPod Touch or iPhone. Thanks to the new chapter markers, you can jump from one chapter to another.
Hands Off!
Hands Off! is an application to monitor and control the access of applications to your network and disks. Being able to monitor the normally unnoticeable activities enables you to make informed decisions regarding the transfer of your private information, hence avoiding confidential information leakage.
When connected to the Internet, applications can send any information stored on your computer to whoever they want without you ever knowing. Using Hands Off!, you can monitor and control Internet connections from all applications as to expose hidden connections and prevent them from sending data or phoning home without your consent.
Applications present on your computer can freely read, store or erase information on your computer without your knowledge. Using Hands Off!, you can monitor and control disk access from all applications as to prevent them from obtaining confidential information, erasing your data or storing cookies.
The best way to find out if Hands Off! suits your needs is to download the latest version and try the demonstration mode.
Aurora
Let Aurora wake you and your Mac. Wake up every morning to the sound of your favorite iTunes playlist instead of that annoying alarm clock.
Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV. Other features include a Snooze Timer, a Fall Asleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state.
Aurora 4 has greatly improved usability and reliability. The alarm properties are much more accessible. Alarms, playback/snooze and fall asleep modes have their dedicated panels. Aurora still builds on iTunes playlists, but doesn't use iTunes itself for playback, greatly enhancing reliability. Aurora 4 takes full advantage of Mac OS X Leopard technologies, and does not run on Mac OS X Tiger or earlier.
Aurora speaks your language: it comes with English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Russian localizations.
Back In Focus
Back In Focus is an application allowing to refocus blurry images.
If you ever took a great photo only to find out it's slightly blurry, Back In Focus can help you get in back in focus!
Supports most image formats
Is able to recover details smaller than the blur size
Makes it easy to explore different deconvolution algorithms
Has tools to refocus only the blurred area
Takes advantage of Grand Central Dispatch to use your computer power
Back In Focus implements advanced deconvolution technologies to recover lost details. It is best used before any image manipulation. Currently implemented algorithms:
Unsharp masking (fast and full)
Wiener finite and infinite impulse response
Richardson-Lucy (with a thresholding variant)
Linear algebra deconvolution
Decompose
Decompose is an application allowing an easy and flawless extraction of elements from pictures in order to use them to make composite images. It is the perfect tool for making images for Web pages, newspapers and magazines or simply for your own creations. Extracted objects are saved as a TIFF file with transparency. Decompose also corrects colors to remove all traces of the previous background, thus generating perfect mattes.
Magic Launch
With Magic Launch users can take true control over which application is launched when double-clicking on a file. You can reinstate creator codes on a per file-type basis, or create personalized rules to select a different application depending on the folder the file is located in, its color label, the name of the file, or its content. It is also possible to run a terminal command instead of an application.
Video Rotate
Video Rotate allows you to turn videos! Do you sometime use your photo camera or your iPhone to take videos ? Did you ever take a video verticaly by mistake? Video Rotate allows you to turn it back in the correct direction, for easier viewing and editing. Video Rotate currently works with .mov, .m4v, and .mp4 files. Other files that can be opened by QuickTime Player (such as .avi files), can be transformed to .mov files using the 'Save as...' feature of QuickTime Player.
Processes
Processes is an application that gives you the ability to:
Zap Stalled Processes and Apps - If a process is stuck, Processes can kill it or restart it with pinpoint accuracy.
Pause Apps and Processes -Is a process bogging-down your system? Pause it and resume it later.
Monitor System Usage Per Process - Monitor each process' system usage, plus see its network connections and files.
Processes is a power-tool to help you monitor and take control of the processes running on your Mac. It provides both a wide overview of the activity on your system, while also allowing you to drill-down to the inner workings of each individual process.
Features:
Pause and resume apps and processes.
Zap unresponsive processes.
View which files each process is accessing, and find them in the finder.
View network connections for each process, to see what they're accessing.
Get user-friendly readouts of CPU and Memory usage per process.
Filter and sort processes by keyword, user, CPU usage, Memory Usage, and more.
Provides short descriptions of select processes.
Retina-ready graphics.
Photo Batch
Photo Batch will help you process all your images at once. No more repetitive work, simply drag the images or the folders you wish to process into Photo Batch, then apply the desired effects, crop, rotate, resize and rename them all, and finally export them.
Features:
Adjust brightness, contrast and saturation.
Crop by percentage or by pixels
Rotate all images at once.
Resize all images by percentage or by pixels.
Set the maximum pixels height and/or width, this way your images will be resized by keeping the aspect ratio.
Name and choose the destination folder for all imported images, regardless of their source location.
Keep the original name of the images or rename them all by appending the desired suffix.
Keep the original file type of each image, or export them all to the desired popular format (jpeg, png or tiff).
Keep the metadata of the original images if desired.
Retina-ready graphics.
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