Nice setup, polished and pretty unlike mine. :) Excellent use of thin 1px bars indeed.

Thanks for sharing!

http://ethsza.deviantart.com/art/Screencap-2009-April-118728036

Samurize is the 14px bottom bar. (I’m proud of the 1px orange progressbars, but those are the downmost pixels, they can be hardly seen unless you watch it over a black bacground. In reality the thin black border of my TFT does the trick.)
Also samurize has a taskbar client, upper right next to mí start button. I use it to switch virtual desktops (there’s a great samurize plugin for the VirtuaWin virtual desktop manager), open folders and control winamp/kmplayer).
Also Samurize puts that big translucent time/date on my desktop.

About resource usage: This setup consumes 4.5 MB of RAM with only 0%-2% of the CPU cycles, while Vista sidebar sets you back over 60MB.

Even more minimalistic setup. :) We need someone flashy all over desktop for balance.

Nice tray btw, I keep my under control but it is still packed full of stuff all the time.

http://nickstaroba.com/pics/NSC_Samurize.png

I used to do a lot more with it, but it used up more RAM than I liked and all the bells & whistles weren’t necessary for me anyway.

Using it on the taskbar like this takes up very little resources and I don’t have to see any of my desktop for it to be useful.

Heard about that few times but never got to trying it. :) I think Samurize is quite easy but only after initial “what the heck does what” stage in editor.