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By Kate Russell Click Webscape-r

Kate Russell gives us her latest selection of the best sites on the World Wide Web.

Take It Apart

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Are you the type of person who likes to tinker?

Do you love to take your old electronics items and such like, and get inside them to see how they work?

If you are, this next site is a dream come true, just do not pull apart anything you can still make use of, or it could easily turn into a nightmare.

Take It Apart is the ultimate tinkerer's destination.

Dissecting electronic gadgetry, just for fun, is the website's tag line and there is also a disclaimer advising you not to actually do this, on the opening page.

But for some the urge to get out their screwdriver is just too strong, and those people will find plenty on these pages to relate to.

Scroll down the opening page for a list of categories on the left, from music to gaming devices and all sorts of other bits and bobs.

Most sections contain step-by-step text and picture guides to the disassembly process, but occasionally you will find a video too, like the one for the PlayStation2.

My favourite was their dissection of a hard-drive, not recommended if you are squeamish about surgery on disks.

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TheBroth: The Global Mosaic

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Next up, a little collaborative fun to while away those last few minutes at the end of your lunch break, at TheBroth: The Global Mosaic.

I love these collaborative projects, though it is fair to say they can be frustrating when there are players involved who are not really entering in to the spirit of the activity.

TheBroth is a mosaic art project, where you have to move little coloured tiles in the playing space to make a picture.

Click Enter Mosaic to access the public room.

There is a title at the top of the screen telling you what the collaborative theme is at the moment, then just click and drag the tiles to create your work.

The best way to play is to add to something someone else is already doing, or you can start your own section of the picture and hope no-one takes your tiles away before you have finished.

If you want a little more control, why not register and create your own room to invite your friends to? Click the link to the public gallery to see how creative some people have been.

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Street Sign Generator

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Finally, another cool little tool that might give you a few minutes pleasure and something funky to put on your desktop.

Street Sign Generator is so simple to use it is almost too simple.

You just choose a design from the limited selection by clicking the spot under the one you like.

Scroll down to enter the text you want displayed, then use the dropdown arrow to add a suffix, such as Bluff, or Corner, or even a website extension, allowing you to put the domain name of your website in as the street name.

Now click to create your street sign. Easy peasy.

You can right click the image to save it for later use, and then use the link below to start another if you want. My only complaint would be the lack of different signs, but you cannot have everything.

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