Kate Russell gives us her latest selection of the best sites on the World Wide Web.
You may remember that recently I featured a page claiming to be the end of the Internet.
Well, a viewer who did not leave their name followed that up with this page.
It seems an appropriate place to start this week, the start of the Internet.
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I thought I would show you this page sent in by its creators Jeremy and Joanna Wyn-Harris from New Zealand.
It is a brilliant idea, but they need a little help.
The Open Sauce is an interesting combination of intelligent coding and traditional content, all wrapped up in a clever name that confirms this is a recipe archive built by the people, for the people. That means you lot.
After a free and easy registration process it does not take long to get the gist of what is expected of you.
If you are looking for a recipe then use the simple search facility to look for keywords.
Admittedly there is not a huge archive of recipes yet, but then every publicly created archive has to start somewhere.
Submitting your own recipe is equally easy, unless of course your grandma finds out you have been sharing her secret family recipe for chocolate chip cookies with the rest of the world.
The intelligent ingredient-parsing engine will even work out any quantities and conversions needed to complete the dish.
You can also build up your own cookbook of favourites online for quick and simple reference.
I think the simple functionality of this site is commendable, and if enough people participate then it could turn into a pretty good resource
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Next up, another viewer suggestion, this time from KJ Mulder.
We all love a good wallpaper for our desktop.
At Final Frontier you will find a good-sized collection of free desktop decorations, mostly with an outer space theme.
Your selections are currently split into six main galleries, Nebulae, Planets, Galaxies, Apollo, Illustrations & Artists Impressions, and Other.
There are also links to the most viewed and most highly rated images in the navigation panel on the left if you just want to jump straight in to the best of the best.
Click the Album List button to access the current library then, as with all wallpaper sites like this, get the picture you want to use in high resolution in your browser window, then right-click and Save As a file to use on your hard drive.
You can use the 'Set As Wallpaper' option from the right-click context menu of course, but as we have mentioned before, in Windows this will set off Active Desktop which uses extra resources on your PC.
Also bear in mind that any wallpaper you use takes up RAM, so if you do not have much memory you should consider keeping your desktop wallpaper-free.
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The amazing thing about the Internet is that it provides a platform for people to express their creativity, be it through pictures, sounds, interactivity, or the written word.
This next site was suggested by viewer Salim, and is for anyone who has a story to tell.
ABC Tales is a storytelling site for anyone to enjoy, or participate in by penning their own tales for submission.
You can browse the public galleries by type of tale, such as Biographies or Fiction, or by genre, such as Children's, Crime or Romance.
Where necessary there are age certifications in place, so you can be sure your young ones will not stumble across words that they should not.
Reading the stories is great fun, but if you feel a little creative you can add your own, comment on other people's, or enter the story-writing competitions they run.
This site is well worth a look if you like the written word.
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We finish with another one of those great game collections.
This time what I like about the site is the more intellectual style of gaming.
Midas Player calls itself a skill gaming site.
You will not find Pacman and Sonic here.
Instead you will have your grey matter tested with logic and word puzzles that are more reminiscent of a game of Scrabble with the family than a night down at the amusement arcade with your friends.
The free games are easy to spot from the front page.
Unfortunately the games themselves only work in Internet Explorer, which is a bit annoying if you use another browser.
There really is no reason not to program your sites for any browser to use these days, so I hope they fix that soon.
My favourite game is the Word Link one, that asks you to link letters together to make as many words as possible in a given time period.
It is worth noting that there are premium and registration-only elements to this website, but you do not need to use any of these features to fully enjoy the games on the opening page.
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