Vista Window Preview
One of the Vista features that I really like is the small preview windows as you hover over the taskbar. I didn't know but discovered that video will play smoothly inside of these little window previews!
Makes me wonder.. how was this done? Can these little preview window be persistent. It'll be great productivity boost for me in terms of multitasking if I can have a small copy of any window in the sidebar or floating about. I can watch a screencast and code at the same time. It's worth investigating.