Handy Sites

I continue to be surprised by the useful stuff online. These sites are for fairly specific purposes, but I love how good they are at what they do.

CrimeReports.com is a site where you type your address, and they immediately pull up any police involved incidents near that address. They let you fine tune the range of time captured, and the type of events.

PadMapper.com is a site for finding a new place to live. The search criteria are sensible and easy to use, and best of all, it picks up ads from Craigslist and apartment complexes, you name it, and just pins everything on a map, so you can search based on where you'd like to live. Smart.