most of you will know about dashboard on a mac (and comming on vista) where you can use widgets for stuff, personally i like to use the post it widget for keeping notes when im using the mac but when im on the pc i dont have the same functionality and it seems a little odd, i know i can use notepad an save it when i need to and thats what ive been doing for years, till now ive been having a look around and theres a free proggie from yahoo (it used to be konfabulator but its called yahoo widgets since they bought it)

basically you install the proggie from here
http://widgets.yahoo.com/

then pick/download widgets from either their site
http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/

or from the folder with them in that you get in the download its not the same as vista or a mac but you can make it so when you press a button (ive got f1 cos it doesnt get used all that much) it pops up in a headsup display and then when you press the same button again they all vanish just like on a mac

enjoy