PrtScr (freeware) allows you to make perfect screen captures in a minimum of clicks, and with style. Make full-screen, rectangle or freehand screen captures, annotate them, and put them straight on your desktop, or edit/print/email them. Watch a preview of your capture floating over your desktop.
NAPALM (freeware) lets you draw over your Windows desktop using animated fire ink, and tweak the fire generator parameters. Allows saving/restoring of artwork & style, import of bitmap files. Aside from leaving notes on your desktop, it's useless, thus absolutely necessary. www.fiastarta.com
CoffeeCup Firestarter is a fast and easy way to make Flash effects for your Web site. It can create complex text and image effects with only a few clicks of the mouse. You can make splash pages, navigation systems, graphic logos, and much more. Firestarter has more than 50 built-in, ready-to-use effects, including Assemble, Explode, and Fade; a collection of cool MP3 sounds; a built-in sound editor for fades, echo, and reverse; and more.