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INSTALL

Google Chrome on your Android phone

If you’re using Google Chrome as your desktop web browser you can now use it on your mobile and your open tabs, browsing data, boomarks and other customisations will follow you. Google has also included Link Preview which takes the hassle out of hunting for links on a small screen by automatically zooming in on them. The browser is free from the Android Market but your tablet or phone will need to be running Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich.

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WATCH

All this year’s Super Bowl ads

The Super Bowl is not just a major US sporting event it’s also a massive advertising and marketing event and this year’s game didn’t disappoint with a record 111.3 million viewers tuning in.

From Coke’s decidedly old school polar bears to Best Buy’s gathering of technology innovators, Darth Vader’s surprise appearance in the Volkswagen Beetle ad to David Beckham appearing in his briefs for HM, it’s all here.

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TEST

Your internet safety IQ

You, of course, are an internet safety expert, it’s other people who make basic mistakes that expose their personal and financial details. Put that theory to the test with the UK Safer Internet Centre’s mulitple-choice test to find out just how much you know about internet safety in categories such as social networking, gaming and mobile. For the record this correspondent scored 80/120.

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READ

What to include in your backup

What about all that data that you have on your PC? You have it backed up in case the hard drive fails, right? Probably not, but in this article the uber-geeks that make up the LockerGnome community share their advice on what you should be backing up – from your financial data to your photos – what you can skip, and what services are available to store your copied data.

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INSTALL

Google Chrome on your Android phone

If you’re using Google Chrome as your desktop web browser you can now use it on your mobile and your open tabs, browsing data, boomarks and other customisations will follow you. Google has also included Link Preview which takes the hassle out of hunting for links on a small screen by automatically zooming in on them. The browser is free from the Android Market but your tablet or phone will need to be running Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich.

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