Here’s another cool map-related program I “stumbled upon.” It’s called Visited States and it’s basically a program that allows you to “paint” a map, marking the states that you check. There’s also a Visited Countries, which does the same thing for countries. While it’s aimed at marking the states or countries you’ve visited, you could use it for marking them for any other reason (like elections).

Here’s my Visited States map:


create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Yes, the developers also have some cool Google Hacks, like doing the translation thing from English to German to French and back to English to see the results (the chorus of “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” becomes “listen announce angels sing. Re-elected with the new-born king”) or Google Talk, where you enter 3 or 4 words and Google attempts to finish your sentence. Or Visual Poetry, which takes your words and does Google Image Searches on them to show you a picture of your words, so to speak. Very interesting. Try some of these hacks out. They’re cool!

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