Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Free is a free (for personal use) partitioning tool.

The program supports creating new NTFS or FAT32 volumes on MBR, GPT and 2TB+ drives. You can resize or move existing partitions from a single dialog. And there are tools to copy partitions; change their drive letters or labels; check them for errors; delete, format or wipe them, and more.

The interface for all this is much like most other partitioning software. There's a list of your drives and partitions; select one, and you can choose whatever options you'd like to perform. Any changes aren't applied straight away, appearing instead in a "Pending Operations" pane. But once you're happy, just click "Commit" and the program will carry out each of your commands in turn.

Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Free has some limitations and issues. There's no "Merge Partition" option, and no partition recovery tool. No EXT2 or EXT3 support. Odd spelling ("opereations") doesn't create the best of impressions, and may cause confusion on occasions. We were told that the status of our drives was "Health", for instance, but what does this mean? "Healthy", presumably, but when you're dealing with something as important as partitioning we would prefer to be sure.

What's new in 5.2.0 (see the version history for more):

- Disk Clone Function now supports any type of partition, like unformatted partition, RAW partition, Ext, BitLocker, etc.

Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Free is a free (for personal use) partitioning tool.

The program supports creating new NTFS or FAT32 volumes on MBR, GPT and 2TB+ drives. You can resize or move existing partitions from a single dialog. And there are tools to copy partitions; change their drive letters or labels; check them for errors; delete, format or wipe them, and more.

The interface for all this is much like most other partitioning software. There's a list of your drives and partitions; select one, and you can choose whatever options you'd like to perform. Any changes aren't applied straight away, appearing instead in a "Pending Operations" pane. But once you're happy, just click "Commit" and the program will carry out each of your commands in turn.

Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Free has some limitations and issues. There's no "Merge Partition" option, and no partition recovery tool. No EXT2 or EXT3 support. Odd spelling ("opereations") doesn't create the best of impressions, and may cause confusion on occasions. We were told that the status of our drives was "Health", for instance, but what does this mean? "Healthy", presumably, but when you're dealing with something as important as partitioning we would prefer to be sure.

What's new in 5.2.0 (see the version history for more):

- Disk Clone Function now supports any type of partition, like unformatted partition, RAW partition, Ext, BitLocker, etc.

BB FlashBack Express is a screen recording tool that can capture desktop activity as it happens, record the results as a movie, and even upload the resulting clip to YouTube or other video sharing sites.

You're able to record the full screen, an individual window, or any region of the screen that you like. FlashBack Express can capture application sound, too, perfect if you'd like to capture your performance in a game.

If you're preparing a software tutorial or presentation then you'll appreciate the option to capture and highlight keystrokes, which should allow viewers to clearly see what you're doing. But if they need more information then you can always record a spoken commentary to go along with the clip.

There are options to limit the final video size, useful if you're intending to share the results online. When your project has finished, then FlashBack Express can export it in AVI or Flash formats (SWF and FLV). And there's even an option to upload it directly to YouTube, Blip.tv, Viddler or Revver.

Weather Watcher Live is a comprehensive monitoring tool that will keep you up-to-date with the very latest reports from weather stations all around the world.

The program can reveal an amazing amount of information. The "Now" tab alone, for instance, will show a satellite photo of your chosen location; the current, minimum and maximum temperature, pressure, humidity and wind speed; and predictions for how the weather will change in the next few hours and days.

You're then able to focus on more specific information at a click. Want to know what the weather will be like at 9pm tonight, say? The Hourly tab reveals all. Or choose the Daily tab to see what's happening over the next week.

If you're planning to travel, then the Maps tab will show you what's happening over a wider area. There are hundreds of maps available, so there's a very good chance you'll find something that suits your needs.

And the program is supremely configurable, so if you don't like something, then just head off to the Options dialog. Monitored locations, update frequency, program skin, icons, colours, fonts and more can all be tweaked to suit your needs in just a few seconds.

The speed of browser development these days means you’re never more than a month or two from the next “major” release. But if you can’t wait that long, and you’re happy to sacrifice some stability and security in return for getting an early glance at new features, then this beta build of Google Chrome will satisfy most people.

While the beta version is still not stable enough to be considered a final release for the masses, it has at least undergone a measure of testing by those Chrome users adventurous enough to install the bleeding-edge alpha, or Dev, build, so crashes and glitches are fewer and far between.

It's important to realise that updating to the beta build will overwrite your existing stable installation of Chrome, so you can't run it side-by-side. But you will at least be automatically updated with the latest beta build, so as time goes on, Chrome becomes more stable before your current version migrates to a stable release and you jump to the next beta build.

You can always jump back to the stable build by visiting the Release Channel page, but note you'll only properly switch when a stable release newer than your beta build is released. If this is an issue, simply uninstall the beta and reinstall the stable version instead.

Chrome 69 is now in the Beta channel. What's new in Chrome 69?

- Under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit is a rebranded and improved beta version of ZeroVulnerabilityLabs' ExploitShield, an easy-to-use tool which protects popular applications from zero-day exploits, web-based vulnerability exploits and more.

The full list of shielded apps includes browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Media Players (Windows Media Player, VLC, Winamp, QuickTime), PDF-related tools (Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, Adobe Acrobat) and more (Java, Windows Script Host, Windows Help).

Better still, no special configuration or setup is required to make this happen. Just install and launch it, and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit will immediately go to work.

Under normal circumstances, the program should then run entirely in the background, without you ever noticing anything at all (certainly, it's 3MB RAM use isn't going to present much of a problem for even the most basic of hardware.)

If you want to know more, though, right-clicking the Anti-Exploit system tray icon and selecting "Show Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit" will reveal a few details. You can see how many exploits have been blocked, for instance, or view the program's logs for more details.

The other key option is the ability to stop and restart protection, which could be useful if you notice any odd behaviour after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit. If you notice any problems, right-click its system tray icon and select Stop Protection; right-click the icon and select Start Protection to restore normal operations.

Note that Anti-Exploit technology is now included in Malwarebytes Premium, but this Beta version is supported for testing purposes.

What's new in the latest build 109?

- Fixed False positives with Grammarly Add-in
- Fixed false positives with Edge browser
- Improvements in Exclusion capability
- Improvements in Detection Information and Telemetry
- Fixed page freeze issues with Browsers
- Fixed slowness issues with Adobe Acrobat Reader