WinTabber - you wouln’t expect it to be cool, but…

Basically, WinTabber just takes the tabs from your taskbar (for all your open apps) and puts them at the top of the screen, inside a browser-like shell. What’s the big deal?

If you like to use Alt-Tab to switch between applications, you know that it likes to annoy you by sticking up 6 identical Word icons to represent the 6 Word docs you have open - not too helpful. WinTabber lets you cycle through windows, not icons, so you can see where you’re landing.

It also seems a little faster to me, which is one of the website’s bragging points.

And lastly, if you’re trying to train yourself to keep your apps fullscreen (supposedly less distracting than having lots of little windows visible), this could help. Once you load your apps into it (you can pick and choose which ones you want to include in a session), there’s no minimizing or maximizing.