Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

UPGRADE: To the latest version of Google Chrome

Google’s Chrome web browser has had a makeover and one of the most notable changes is a focus on apps and the overhauled Chrome Web Store where you can find new apps to add to your browser. The New Tab page is also redesigned so you can quickly flick between your apps and your recently visited sites.

To tie in with the new release, Google has also added a host of new apps to the Web Store, making its browser even more useful.

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READ: 11 Android features  to combat Apple envy

Smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system may outsell the iPhone but with all the hype when there’s a new Apple device or the software gets upgraded, Android users can sometimes feel like the poor relations. If you need some ammunition to have a pop at a smug iPhone owner, this cheeky Business Insider article lists 11 features that Android has and the Apple fanboys probably wish they had.

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WATCH: Halloween Light Show 2011

The neighbours of YouTube user KJ92508 must be rather understanding. For the second year in a row he’s decked out his Riverside, California, home with a jaw-dropping lightshow which features four singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand-carved pumpkins, strobes, floods and thousands of lights.

In this video, which has now been viewed over two million times, he adds a pumping dance track to the environmental pollution being tolerated by his neighbours.

http://is.gd/kyRPtm

DOWNLOAD: Free chocolate -one square at a time   

Yes, it’s marketing, but it involves free chocolate. The Share a Square app allows smartphone users to unwrap a virtual bar of Dairy Milk, and send a square to a friend on Facebook.

Collect eight squares and you can claim a free eight-square bar from a participating Centra store.

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