Find a pub, hotel, cinema, restaurant, bed & breakfast or meeting room exactly half way between two addresses.

You live in London, your significant other lives in Manchester and you want to have a little tryst in a hotel that’s exactly half way between you two. Type each of your addresses into Meethalfway.com and — voila — up comes your answer: the Woodside Hotel, exactly a 1 hour 45 minute drive from each of you. At the time of writing only those living in Britain can ensure that their meetings take place in a perfectly equitable location though Meet Half Way is launching versions for the United States and Europe shortly.

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You might have had this experience: You price out a plane ticket in the morning and by the time you are ready to purchase it that afternoon you find that the price has gone up or down. Usually up. These days airline fares seem bounce around like stock prices. Into this mess comes Farecast.com, a website that tracks airfares like, well, stock prices. Type in your route and Farecast returns a chart of fares history for that route for the last 69 days along with the percentage chance that the price will rise, fall or stay the same.

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You’ve just had to take out a second mortgage to pay the fuel surcharges, security fees and taxes for your airplane ticket. That flight might be late and your checked-in luggage might get lost. But at least there’s a little something you can do to give yourself a slightly better flight — you can reserve the best seat possible. For that, seatguru.com is indispensable. Select your airline and then the plane type that you’ll be flying from the left-hand navigation and up comes a seating chart for your flight along with information on which seats are drafty, which extra legroom, which have limited recline, etc. Now if only there’s was a website to helped provide good airline food!

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