Over at Lorelle on WordPress is a guest post by John Pozadzides about the 5 Most Useful Administrative Plugins For WordPress.
I have installed Admin Drop Down Menus and it makes the WordPress dashboard much easier to work with.
In one of the comments they mentioned the DashBar plugin, I have installed that and try it out. This plugin gives you a dashbar at the top of your screen when you are logged in to your blog.
