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Go Pro with MacDrive Pro
Introducing MacDrive 9 Pro
MacDrive has become the standard for sharing Mac-formatted disks with Windows. Now, take your file sharing to the next level with MacDrive 9 Pro for Windows.
Apple RAID for Windows
For the first time ever, Windows users can access Apple RAID sets straight from their PC. Professionals and power users that need improved performance and reliability have used Apple RAID for years, and now with MacDrive Pro, those disks can be shared with Windows. MacDrive Pro opens up a whole new realm of cross-platform computing.
Everything you love about MacDrive and more!
For over 15 years, MacDrive has enabled PC users to access Mac disks in Windows. MacDrive Pro includes all of MacDrive Standard’s features, including fast and reliable control of all your Mac disks. You can open, edit, save and even format, partition and repair Mac disks. MacDrive Pro builds on MacDrive’s standard features and gives you more power and more tools to get your work done faster and easier.
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MacDrive 101: How to view a Mac hard drive from Windows
Your computer’s hard drives are like big file cabinets. They are used to store all the information on your computer, including photos, music, programs, etc. In order to keep track of all of this information, you computer needs a map of where everything is located. This “map” is called a file system.What is a file system? Do I need one?
There are many types of file systems. While they all serve the same basic purpose, they do it in different ways. In order for your computer to use a particular hard drive, it must understand the file system used on that drive.The two most common file systems understood by Windows computers are called NTFS and FAT32. The Mac uses a very different file system, called HFS+. Unfortunately, Windows does not understand the HFS+ file system.
MacDrive to the rescue
MacDrive makes your Windows computer smarter by teaching it to understand the Mac’s file system. Once installed, MacDrive gives you full access to your Mac disks from anywhere in Windows. You can see all of your files, and work with them directly from your Windows programs. You can even save them right back to the Mac disk. You don’t need to turn anything on or learn anything new–MacDrive works invisibly in the background, and is there when you need it.It really is that simple. MacDrive just makes your Windows computer a little smarter.
You can try MacDrive for free or purchase a copy at the Mediafour Online Store.
Next MacDrive 101: Creating Mac disks from Windows
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Introducing Ready, Aim, Drop!
Ready, Aim, Drop! is now available, making it easy to turn your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a portable hard drive.Most people bring their iDevices—iPad, iPhone and iPod touch—with them everywhere and charge and sync them with their computers. The portability of the devices make them ideal portable solutions for transferring both large and small files. With Ready, Aim, Drop!, transferring data files is now painless.
With Ready, Aim, Drop! installed on your Windows computer, a “Target” icon appears on your desktop giving you the ability to easily transfer files to your iDevice. Simply drag files onto the target icon and they are transferred. If multiple devices are attached, Ready, Aim, Drop! allows you to copy files to each specific device.
In addition, your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch will show up as a drive in Explorer making it easy to open, copy and delete files on your device.
“We wanted to make it extremely simple to move files on and off your iPad and iPhone,” said Rick Rockhold, Mediafour CEO. “Why carry a thumb drive or external hard drive? Your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can replace those and Ready, Aim, Drop! makes it extremely easy.”
Ready, Aim, Drop! is available now at www.mediafour.com for $9.99 for two licenses or $14.99 for five licenses. A fully functional 10-day trial version is also available. Upon expiration, the trial version can still be used in reader-mode, enabling you to view files on your device, copy files off and delete files.
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MacDrive user: The Baltimore Ravens
It takes more than putting athletes on the field to build a winning sports franchise. You must also put together an entertaining package that draws fans young and old.
In Baltimore, they are succeeding not only on the field, but off the field with their award-winning Rave-TV.
Rave-TV is the Baltimore Ravens in-house broadcasting arm that produces weekly shows such as the Ravens Report and Ravens Wired. The team includes director of broadcasting administration Don DiRaddo, broadcasting manager Lauryn Lukin, and production assistant Jay O’Brien. Rave-TV has won nine Emmy awards for their work. Recently, the Ravens made a significant shift in their production workflow moving from video tapes to a tapeless recording system utilizing both PC and Mac-formatted drives. Thanks to MacDrive, this has been an easy transition.
“This season is our first utilizing tapeless media and our workflow needs to be as fast as an NFL game,” said production assistant Jay O’Brien. “We constantly use MacDrive to transfer video data between Mac & PC-formatted drives without a hitch.”
Prior to using MacDrive, workflow throughout the studio was a nightmare. Video was brought in on various drives and accessing the video was hit and miss, since the staff did not always know what format of drive they were being given. Some drives were PC and readable on the editing systems and others, Mac-formatted drives, were not accessible at all.
“With MacDrive, we don’t even have to think about how a drive is formatted, saving us time and frustration”, said O’Brien.
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MacDrive 8.0.6 update is now available
What’s new in MacDrive 8.0.6?
- Added: Ability to deactivate MacDrive’s license so that MacDrive can be activated on another computer
- Improved: “Access denied” error when attempting to repair Mac partitions in 64-bit Windows
- Improved: Added “Change MacDrive Options” to the Start menu
- Improved: False report of “invalid license” when booting some 64-bit systems
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XPlay 3.5.1 update is now available
What’s new in XPlay 3.5.1?
- Fixed: Compatibility with iTunes 9.1
- Fixed: Album art changes not working reliably
- Fixed: Context menus in “Recent Music Purchases” don’t work
- Fixed: Compatibility with Windows 7 Starter Edition
- Fixed: “Support Information” link not working reliably
- Fixed: High processor usage when iTunes isn’t installed
- Fixed: Various connectivity issues with iPod touch and iPhone
- Fixed: Compatibility with 3rd-generation (and older) iPods
- Fixed: Copying songs between iPods can lose tag information (Windows 7)
- Fixed: iPod tray icon not showing reliably
- Fixed: Copying songs from the iPod doesn’t create correct folder structure (64-bit Windows)
- Fixed: Various fixes and minor improvements
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MacDrive 8.0.5 update is now available
What’s new in MacDrive 8.0.5?
- Fixed: Interaction with Mac-formatted FireWire drives on Windows 7
- Fixed: Incorrect identification of CD/DVD drive when disk corruption was detected
- Fixed: MacDrive Disk Manager handling of hard drives greater than 4TB
- Fixed: Problems that occurred when changing the drive letter of a Mac-formatted hard drive
- Fixed: Unresponsive system after writing to some removable drives and then shutting down
- Fixed: Problems resuming from sleep with an external (USB & FireWire), Mac-formatted disk
- Improved: Mounting and unmounting DMG files
- Improved: Working with Time Machine backups with very deep folder structures
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Media Boss 1.4.0 update is now available
What’s new in Media Boss 1.4.0?
- Added: Support for Windows 7
- Fixed: Miscellaneous improvements and fixes