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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 buys a £3m street and discovers some alphabetically astute animals

NOZBE (http://www.nozbe.com/)

Nozbe

This productivity application acts as a secretary or an executive assistant.

Pretty soon you'll be making lists of tasks, with all the information you need - like phone numbers, notes and even pictures - all neatly stored together.

Once you have a project set up you can add new actions to it whenever they spring to mind. Projects themselves are listed below your inbox.

The free version is open for a single user, up to five projects, five sections and 1MB storage but premium subscriptions offer more projects and storage.

At the moment you cannot make your own custom sections so you will be shoehorning everything into a few pre-defined actions but I have read there are plans to change this - which will be great if it happens.

Altogether an excellent offering to the world of productivity software - neat, well-designed and - to a point - free. There should be more stuff like this in the world.

MONOPOLY CITY STREETS (http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/)

Monopoly City Streets

What happens when you apply the mechanics of the board game Monopoly to an interactive street map of the world?

With £3 million in the bank, you can buy vacant streets, place buildings on them and even make offers to other players for the streets that they own.

Every now and then you'll be offered additional options and content - a demolition permit allowing you to destroy another player's property or remove a sabotaged building placed in one of your streets.

The aim is to make as much money as possible and hopefully creep up the leader boards.

Let the global street wars begin.

MINI CLIP (http://www.miniclip.com)

Miniclip

As usual with a site like this, it is well worth exploring as they have some really fun flash games and gadgets in their collection.

The one which caught my eye is sketch star.

You'll need to register to save and publish, but the premise here is it's a really simple interface to help complete beginners build a frame by frame animation.

I recommend you start with a puppet. Add a background and then start to build your animation frame by frame, making sure you copy both the background and the puppet to the following frame.

There's a ghost feature to help you make the perfect move - and pretty soon you'll be animating like a pro, or at least a little more professionally than my attempt.

BEMBO'S ZOO (http://www.bemboszoo.com)

Bembo's Zoo

This page is super fun, it is home to Bembo's Zoo - an ABC of animals all created using the letters and punctuation from the animal's name.

Just click on a letter and the animal-animation begins as you watch the creature come to life from the jumbled up word.

It is bright and colourful with added atmosphere from a kooky sound file attached to each sequence.

This page is not only modern and well designed, it's also very educational. I hope old and young will enjoy it on many different levels.