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The Map Envelope site is a nifty little utility that does, well, pretty much what it says. Using Google Map, the site finds virtually any address or landmark in the world, and places an aerial photograph of the location along with a message of your choice. Then, it gives you a printable template so that you can print out the shape, fold it into an envelope, and the inside flap will show your map and image!

Every computer these days tends to come with a decent variety of fonts pre-installed, but I tend to find they all blend together and none really stand out. For day to day projects this might be fun, but sometimes you need something that stands out a bit.

Enter dafont.com, a website with a seemingly endless library of strange and exotic fonts. There are dozens of categories to choose from, each with dozens of fonts. You can find find fonts to match most any movie title (my personal favorite search), as well as many custom creations.

TagCrowd is an online application that takes any user-supplied text, a website or an uploaded file, and creates a tag cloud. Tag clouds are a visualization of word frequency in that text. The image shows a tag cloud created for this very blog, but any site is possible.

TSP Solver is a website that attempts to solve the so-called "Travelling Salesman Problem". You can add in a series of addresses via Google Maps, and TSP Solver attempts to find the most efficient route to hit all of those points. Have a long trip to plan? Need to run errands all over town? Use TSP Solver to plan the best round trip so you won't have so much backtracking.