Top 3 BOOTCAMP Softwares For MAC computers

So I recently installed Bootcamp for the first time, and I must say: Wow.  The install went really smoothly, and my Windows XP SP2 install works incredibly well (or rather, as well as a Windows install can possibly work).  Despite the overwhelming awesomeness, there was just a few things that bothered me.  So I got to googling and was pleased at what I found.  At this point, I would never think of telling someone to use Bootcamp without also recommending these three apps.  Enjoy!

1. VMware Fusion ($79.99)

The hefty price-tag is definitely worth it!  Fusion basically allows you to boot your Windows partition in another window from inside OS X.  This is incredibly useful when you want to do something non-cpu intensive in Windows, without having to reboot.  I personally use it quite a bit when doing web design, for testing in the Windows browsers.  One of the coolest programs ever made.

1. MacDrive ($49.95)

This is a completely indispensable utility for any Boocamp user.  It allows you to access your HFS/HFS+ formatted drives from within Windows by supplying the needed drivers.  It also handles external drives just fine.  This is especially useful if you want to install programs onto a Mac-formatted drive without having to make a partition that can be understood by Windows.

1. NTFS-3G  (Free!)  
This is great, it allows you to browse your Windows files from OS X (it’s pretty much the mirror of what MacDrive provides).  Some of you may be thinking “but can’t OS X already do that?”, and the answer is: sorta kinda not really.  OS X can read/write FAT partitions, but has issues with read/write on NTFS partitions.  This driver fixes that in the most elegant possible way, and hey, it’s free!  Note: NTFS-3G requires MacFuse 1.3 or higher be installed prior to installation.