Webscape - a mobile PA and parental controls

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

VLINGO (www.vlingo.com)

Vlingo.com brings to life a personal assistant in your Blackberry, iPhone, Windows or Nokia smartphone.

This app lets you issue voice commands for a variety of applications, such as searching the web, sending a text message or making a call.

The free version has limited functionality - it mainly lets you search the internet and dial a contact.

The voice recognition is good but it struggles in a noisy environment.

VIIGO(www.viigo.com/BlackBerry)

Viigo.com is a fast and reliable RSS reader. You can use it to grab weather, news, sports, stocks, blogs and much more.

The homepage is programmed with lots of great content or you can build your own custom channels for free.

BACKUPIFY (www.backupify.com)

Backupify.com enables you to back up your social data from various networks.

Just add the accounts you have, set the frequency of the back up.

The free account gives you 2GB which is not a lot of memory if you have many photos, but should be fine for keeping a record of e-mails and tweets.

There are upgrades for a fee to cover more accounts and increased storage if you need it.

NURPH (http://nur.ph)

Nurph.com lets you overlay a chatroom on any URL without the need for signing up - it works with your Twitter account.

Just add the web address you want to chat on and you get a dedicated link where you can invite others to join you.

CHATSHIELD(www.chatshield.com)

ChatShield.com is a free parental control application to tweak who your children can talk to through instant messenger clients.

You can set up different accounts with different rules. For example, restricting very young children to only people you know and teens to a certain age group.

You can even limit contacts to a geographical region.