Fluid
For Mac users only (although inroads are being made for PCs; see, e.g., Mozilla's Prism): Fluid. This nifty little app lets you turn web sites into "apps" that reside in your applications folder (or any folder, really), and most helpfully, on the OS X dock.
So you can have instant access to your favorite services, in fully-functional browser windows that you customize to be as large (and only as large) as the site requires.
Another neat option is to have a Fluid "stack", which method keeps your dock uncluttered, but does cost an extra click.
Here I've created a stack right next to my general Applications folder, and in this stack live all of my Fluid apps. Let's face it: The line between system-resident apps and web apps is largely one-dimensional these days, and it makes sense to have persistent, dedicated access to web apps in the same way we do for system apps. Fluid rocks.
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