Open the same application multiple times
 

Hi, sorry for bothering, but the best the search could come up to me was this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=63646
and it is not satisfactory to me |:/

So, may I ask if there's some way to open the same program(any program) multiple times, OR if I can trick the ".desktop" file in some way so that the same program is not recognized as one that is already opened and then opens a new instance (without the need to make multiple ".desktop" shortcuts for each instance I want)?

Thanks in advance!