Giving the new blender 2.56 beta a try, and finding some usefull things that help every day modeling missing from blender.
On that long bar which has the select modes Vertex Mode/Edge Mode/Face Mode for somereason it does not have “select element” or “border”.
Blender has in fact got a select element mode its Ctrl+L after selecting a face/vert or a edge.
Element is basicly if your got 2 or more objects in 1 object and you need to select one off these sub objects fast.
It would be help full if blender added Select Element Mode to bar instead of click your selection then Ctrl+L, just to speed things up.
Select Border mode would be help full aswell.
Border is basicly is if you have a hole in the mesh and you want to select all the edges that create that hole.
These are just 2 ideas that could help user’s select sub objects and borders faster instead of looking up how.