We talked about VirtualBox before as a free alternative to Parallels or VMware Fusion.  The new version 2.0 makes it more compelling than before.

CampTune from Paragon Software Group promises to do one thing and one thing only: resize your Boot Camp partitions without erasing the data on either.  Right now, CampTune is in beta so it is free to brave souls out there.  Paragon will start charging for it once the code leaves pre-release.  CampTune is actually a Linux LiveCD, so you must burn the iso file that you download to a CD and boot off it.  When I tried CampTune on my own computer, it failed to resize my partitions and kicked back …

As a Boot Camp user, I have run into many frustrations when I can access the files on my Windows partition from the Mac side, but cannot access files on the Mac partition from the Windows side.  I know I could just buy MacDrive, but I don’t have $50 to spend on a single purpose application like that.  Luckily, I discovered HFSExplorer.  While not nearly as elegant as MacDrive, HFSExplorer gets the job done for accessing files on my Mac partition.  Since it is free, it can’t hurt to try …