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Like the title says, just type in something (your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online tool will take what you typed in and fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter.

Give it a try — it’s a very cool Flickr applet!

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Today’s nugget is Frappr, a mash-up of Google Maps and Flickr-like photo sharing. It looks like a neat way for groups to share a bit about where they’re from. Check it out — I’ve created a group for BigBlueBall.

Technology really is pretty cool.

I’ve extolled the virtues of Flickr and Google Earth before, but now a guy by the name of Rob Roy has linked the two together with FlickrFly. FlickrFly adds a nifty little “Fly to this location” link to your properly geotagged photo. Clicking the link (assuming you’ve installed Google Earth), will take you around the globe and zoom you in on that spot on the big blue ball we live on.

If you’d like to check it out, grab a free copy of Google Earth and click one of the “Fly to…” links to see Sacre Coeur, Place Vendome, Thousand Island Lake in the Minarets (really cool with terrain turned on), or the Golden Gate bridge.

Adding Geotags
If you use Flickr (and why shouldn’t you… it’s free!), it’s now even easier to add geotags to your photos. There’s a new Greasemonkey script for Firefox called GMiF that puts the power of Google Maps right into Flickr. Makes it really, really easy to point-and-click to tag your photos with the correct latitude and longitude information.

For more on geotagging, check out the Geotagging Flickr group.

Sometimes you stumble across something that makes you go “huh?” Perusing the “100th most viewed” discussion on Flickr I ran across this appalling pet. I’m sorry, but this cat is not appealing. In fact, it’s horrifying. I’m sure it’s rare and expensive and it may be very sweet, but I’m thankful it’s not mine!