I was inspired by this screenshot of a Cocoa-based web-browser from OSNews from Mike Taulty's blog (phew, have I made all the references I need to - I think I could handle Xanadu which I learnt about from Dare Obasango's blog - oops, there I go again).
The thing that excited me wasn't the sexy glassy interface (although that is nice too), but rather the diagnostic panel that is sitting down the bottom of the application.
Anyway - while I was sitting at the airport I whipped up this little component that emulates it just by being dragged onto a form. I wouldn't dare say it is production ready - but don't expect any of the code I post on this blog to be.