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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.

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Web reviewer Kate Russell takes a trip round the world via live video feeds and finds out what she would have looked like as a college girl in the 1950s.

EARTH TV (www.earthtv.com/en)

Earth TV

Earth TV transmits streaming video feeds from 70 cameras across five continents, creating a window for visitors to travel the width and breadth of the world from the comfort of their own homes.

The quality of these feeds is exceptional, and unlike the usual fixed camera viewpoint, Earth TV can motion control each camera to capture the very best of the action.

Each destination feed is complimented with information and fascinating facts, maps and local weather reports - with a relaxing music track running throughout.

EXTREME SKIPPING (www.extremeskipping.com)

Extreme Skipping

Produced in the style of skating, boarding and parkour films, this collection of films has to be seen to believed.

The attitude and style of these genres is captured brilliantly, complete with banging rock track - this is satire at its online best.

Extreme Gene is the skipper who started the craze - and if you scroll down the page you can see films made and submitted by other people. Each one is more ridiculous than the last.

DESKTOPNEXUS (www.desktopnexus.com)

Desktopnexus

Installing the desktop of your dreams is only a few clicks away. This not only has an amazing assortment of styles and images for you to download, but it also works out all the dimensions and details for you.

Browse the images by category from the galleries - there are more than 100,000 to choose from, so browsing them can be a journey in its own right! When you see an image you like, click the thumbnail to open it up, and then click Enlarge Wallpaper to see how it will look resized for your machine.

If you are the artistic type why not create your own images to be uploaded to the Desktopnexus catalogue? With over 47 million downloads logged you will be joining a huge community of desktop art lovers.

YEARBOOK YOURSELF (www.yearbookyourself.com)

Yearbook Yourself

See yourself in glorious retro fashions dating back to 1950. Finding the perfect image to use can be tricky - you may get best results from using the option to take a picture with your webcam if you have one installed.

Your face should be dead straight on to the camera, and have no hair or other obstruction across your face. Once you have an image inserted, tweak the size and position.

Each era can be fine tuned using the controls beneath the picture to get the best overall result, and is accompanied by music from the era and a smattering of information about fashion and trends on the right.

When you find an image you want to share you can post it directly to Facebook, save it to your computer, or use the share link to post it to a URL that you can share with whoever you want.