Faststone Capture

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.

http://www.faststone.org

Fake Progress Bar

Trivial, but fun: A Fake Progress dialog for your desktop. Ever wanted your computer to look busy so that you could do something else? Read the paper perhaps? Stare into space? Features include fully customizable titles, icons, speed and progress messages. It can also disable your screensaver.

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/fakebar.html