or if you have a keningston two button mouse, tell the prefs that when you chord make a app menu. I find this feature very usefull.

The taskbar is indeed like the dock. You can use it to switch apps, or you can get apps like ASm that use the OS9 app switcher in the top right corner, or dragthing, which can make a floating dock that holds open apps, like the OS9 launcher.

If you aren't familiar with these don't worry. To quickly switch between apps, use cmd+tab to go to the last used app, and then down the dock, or cmd+shift+tab to go backwards, exactly like the taskbar.

In 10.3, there will be a cool "zoom out" feature, that will seperate and shrink all your windows so you can pick which one you want to go to.

I'm starting to use iKey to assign cetain apps to f-keys (which is way faster than even moving my mouse to the dock). Cheetah's suggestion is ok, but I don't want to switch through every app open to get to the one I want, then accidentally pass it 'cause I'm switching too fast, argh!

I also like to be able to auto type commonly used text like my several email addy's with my function keys.

iKey is $20 shareware, but I think I'm going to buy it, since it does everything I likes that Quickkeys did in OS9, but way cheaper.

Another way to quickly switch between apps without going to the dock is to use windowshadeX. You can minimize windows in place to little floating icons that you just need to click to quickly bring them back to full screen.

Or you can double click the task bar to minimize the task bar to a narrow strip that allows you to see the desk top or other open apps, when you double click it comes right back.

WindowshadeX