Windows 7 have a nifty feature which combines the windows of opened applications under the same taskbar button. If you don't like it you can always turn it off.
If you are a heavy twitter use, possibly with more then one account, than I suggest you to give Tweetdeck a try. You can arrange, schedule, monitor and manage your tweets with ease.
If you know how many years or months you got left until the retirement or any other event or project in your life, Excel can return you the exact date and the number of days left to reach it.
TinEye is a great reverse image search online service, that can tell you where an image came from, find different sizes of the image and you can find out if someone is using your image without your permission.