OS Rev Up
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Once you've spent a week or so getting used to using a Mac, install Butler!
What is Butler? It's a system-wide menu, combined with a pasteboard, quick searcher, iTunes remote; you name it. It's absolutely freak'n brilliant! It's one of those super-flexible OS extensions (like Standalone used to write for the Newton) that really feels like it's only limited by your imagination.
The heart of Butler is a configuration screen on which you add and arrange so-called Smart Items. These Smart Items can be accessed via menus in the Mac titlebar, or they can be hidden and accessed using key combinations or hot corners of the screen.
Butler also has a hot corner drop zone. How does that work? Let's say there's an app that I like to access a lot. I drag the app out of the Applications folder and hold it over the bottom-left corner of my screen (my drop zone). The Butler configuration screen pops up and I drop the app onto the list.
If I drop it on a visible menu then it's obviously added to that menu; if I drop it in the Invisible Items list then I can assign a key combination, or a key combination combined with a screen corner, or simply a screen corner on its own to launch that app. And not just apps can be accessed.
I can drop folders or drives to make pop up lists of their contents, or Safari bookmarks, or Contacts lists, or iTunes songs, or preference panes...
Footnote: Quite apart from all the functionality features; it's probably worth the download just for all of the hooks that it has into iTunes...