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Sennheiser is busting out a pair of personal audio products worth boasting about at this year’s IFA. First up is the very fashionable Momentum, a pair of chrome and leather cans that take cues from the Amperior reference design, with a 3.5mm stereo lead and optional smart remote. However, if you’re in the market for something a little less visible, the company’s CX 890i earphones are coated in a “glass-like” finish that offers “outsanding” passive noise attenuation — sparing you jacking up the volume to avoid your co-workers bickering. Both sets are available in the UK from September, with the Momentum costing £260 and the CX 890i (pictured after the break) a more modest £120.

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One of the more recent features to turn up in IM programs and services is to notify others when they have read your messages. This can be both good and bad. If this is something that annoys you on Facebook Chat, then you should try Chat Undetected.

Chat Undetected is a Chrome/Firefox/IE extension allows you to keep the status of your messages under wraps. This basically cloaks your message viewing and users won’t be notified when you read their messages. Since it’s a browser extension, it’s pretty convenient.

This extension allows you to somewhat nicely ignore annoying people, so they don’t know you’ve seen their messages. Of course, you could simply switch Facebook Chat off, but many people just leave that on by default.

[via The Next Web]

Look at what the cat dragged in with the latest Chrome Beta, where the team over at Google have come up with a new and improved Pointer Lock JavaScript API (a.k.a. mouse lock). To put it in plain English, this translates to gamers being able to enjoy superior, or at least, improved (for those who prefer to be less dramatic in their descriptions, of course) mouse control especially when it comes to 3D web apps and games such as first-person shooters. It will basically remove your cursor from the screen, while obtaining access to raw mouse movement data in order to let you pan the display’s view any way and direction that you wish without missing a beat. To get a better idea on how much more improved the mouse control is, why not spend some time with this particular WebGL Quake 3 map viewer and tell us what you think about it?

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Hear ye, hear ye, those of you who are currently using Chrome for iOS – it seems that this particular software or app has received an update courtesy of the folks over at Google. To put it in a nutshell, the Chrome team is more than happy to announce their maiden update to Chrome for iPhone and iPad, where upon installation of this latest update, the version number will be bumped to Chrome 21/21.0.1180.77, and along with any other decent software update out there, it will deliver a range of fixes to user-reported issues such as the ability to share directly from Chrome to your favorite social network or via email, additional actionable sync sign in error messages, better language detection for the welcome tour, as well as fixes for pages which load up blank in Incognito mode. This particular update can be downloaded over at the App Store, or you can always take the other route of looking at the prompt inside of Chrome. Current known issues can be found over at the Chrome support site. Have you given your Chrome for iOS an update already?

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Chrome OS users love these two things about their Chromebooks – the speed as well as simplicity, and when you take this week’s stable release of Chrome OS into consideration, you should have noticed the redesign effort that went into the apps list, ensuring that your apps list experience is a whole lot easier to access when it comes to navigating to your favorite apps and websites. In fact, the apps list as you can see above, has ended up being more compact, letting you access the bunch of your favorite apps without having to interrupt your browsing experience. Not only that, a search box has been thrown into the mix at the top of the apps list, allowing you to use it like an omnibox in order to search the web, specific websites, or the apps that are stashed away on your computer.

There will also be visual improvements like a redesigned Cloud Print dialog and the ability to add custom wallpaper, not to mention being able to save files directly to Google Drive, letting you access files at a later time from any compatible device, Drive on iOS or Android included. More changes made under the hood include the addition of audio support for USB and HDMI, extra sandboxing security features, amongst others.

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