IF you enjoy taking your dog for a walk and want to try something a bit different, take a look at walkingwithdogs. The site (www.walkingwithdogs.co.uk) offers people the chance to find walks across the UK and provides a short description for each.

You can also link through to a map and even check out the weather forecast.

The design of the site is clear and simple, with a cartoon dog as its mascot, as well as a Dog of the Week award.

And to show your support you can even design your own T-shirt featuring your dog or buy a little badge button with the walkingwithdogs logo on it.

THE daddy of internet search engines, Google, is now offering the opening pages of books and reviews in its results.

Google is launching the service as a test and results will be preceded by the words "Book Beta". This move follows that of Amazon, which has made over 120,000 books available to search.

But the two companies are also set to work hand-in-hand as the Google results will also point people through to the Amazon site.

TECHNOLOGY that will allow you to view photographs taken at sports events in a matter of seconds will soon be available.

Empics (www.empics.co.uk), a sports photo marketing firm, has tested a new system at several events, including Nottingham Forest football games and horse racing at Sandown.

It has allowed them to take photographs from points around the arena and within 20 seconds send them to mobile phones. The company hopes to make the service available to subscribers early next year.

EVER wanted to know where the world's largest collection of toothpaste tubes is?

Well get over to toothpaste world (www.toothpasteworld.com) and you've found it, with over 1,000 tubes in the collection.

The founder of the site is a dentist and he has everything from Hopalong Cassidy toothpaste to whisky-flavoured toothpaste.

You can even check out how different countries package toothpaste, including Malaysia and Israel -- not sure why you'd want but that's the beauty of the internet.