Two more productivity apps that I find very useful
RocketDock
http://www.rocketdock.com
A windows version of the dock application based on the Mac dock. Except its better because its on windows of course. =)
If you’ve ever seen the Mac dock you’ll know what to expect. You can add icons to the dock, and also folders of icons using the Stacks Docklet (a separate download, here). In fact there are all kinds of addons available on the site, although most are fairly simple stuff, usually just adding a shutdown button or some other trivial function.
Rocketdock also shows your minimized tasks, and I can happily report it works very well with previously blogged app miniMize.
Apple recently won a legal battle to patent the dock, so it may not be around forever, as they’ll no doubt try and keep it exclusive to macs. hopefully by that stage the geniuses behind XGL or Bumptop will have created some ingenious new way to interact with our PCs.
TaskSwitch XP
(http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp/download.html)
Even with miniMize and RocketDock, you’ll still need to alt-tab occasionally (sometimes its just more instinctive). TaskSwitchXP replaces the default alt-tab menu with a much better one, which allows sticky mode (the menu stays on the screen until you pick something with the mouse) and is super-customisable.