Macbook Air in my opinion is probably the best notebook computer ever produced and Chinese people know exactly what to do with such popular and expensive toys and i.e to create their knockoffs and sell them at lower prices. This Macbook Air knockoff looks exactly like the real one and even has a unibody enclosure. It is priced at 2499 yuan or $393, that is literally half the price of original Macbook Air. Of course there is no comparison between the two, i am just comparing the price difference here.

This fake Macbook Air is 100-200 grams heavier than the original model, it is also 1mm thicker.

This awesome looking knockoff lacks the iconic backlit Apple logo, that is really bad. It packs a 1.86GHz Intel Atom N2800 processor, 2GB RAM, 13.3-inch with 1366×768 LED display, 0.3-Megapixel camera for video chat, SD Card slot, WiFi, USB 2.0 ports, 3.5mm audio jack, built-in mic and a 4100mAh battery that provides 2 hours of batter life.

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EA has released a brand new and re-imagined version of its classic game Tetris. The new game that became available in the App Store yesterday brings many new features and a new look to the old game everyone loves to play. EA’s Tetris game was already available in the App Store, but it seems as if EA has pulled the older game before releasing the ‘re-imagined’ version. The new features introduced the game include One-touch Marathon mode, Tetris Galaxy, Tetris Log, Tetris Rank, and T-Club. These features are explained below.

• ONE-TOUCH MARATHON MODE – Feel the power of this revolutionary new way to play the Tetris® game. Craft the perfect strategy and stack Tetriminos with the tap of a finger. You’ll have a few options, so choose wisely!

• TETRIS® GALAXY – Try this new multi-level mode! Clear to the core as you drop each Tetrimino with split-second intensity. And use power-ups to transform the blockade below!

• TETRIS® LOG – Challenge your friends and show off your skills in Origin.

• TETRIS® RANK – Keep a tally of every line you’ve ever cleared.

• T-CLUB – Join fellow Tetris® enthusiasts and gain an advantage with bonus lines and T-Coins.

PLAY THE BELOVED FAVORITE, TOO!
Enjoy the Marathon style you know and love – and get Korobeiniki (the world famous 8-bit theme song) to keep you going for hours!

Unfortunately iPad optimized version is now available yet. You can download EA’s Tetris for your iPhone or iPod touch from the App Store for $0.99 here

Google’s Android might have sold many more units than Apple’s iOS but according to Google’s own Suzanne Michel, 2/3rd of search giants mobile search requests comes from Apple’s iOS devices including iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. When compared to  overall mobile searches received by world’s largest search engine Google, 2/3rd is a huge number. Something Android could not out do even with its immense growth.

Worth mentioning here is that millions of devices from other platforms are also in that 1/3rd area alongside Android devices. This information was revealed by Suzanne Michel, who is an Google employee during Senate Judiciary hearings today when she was under oath.

[9to5Mac]

iPhone Dev-Team has just released an updated version of their popular RedSn0w tool that brings several new features to the jailbreaking application. RedSn0w 0.9.9b1 allows users to jailbreak their devices without the need of IPSW file on their computers. It fetches publicly available IPSWs from Apple and caches those pieces for future use. Many other features have also been added to this popular tool, more details after the break.

RedSn0w 0.9.9b1 is now available for download for Mac and Windows.

• uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and FW you have
• fetches pieces of public IPSWs from Apple (once).  Non-public IPSWs must be provided manually (once).  It then caches those pieces for future use.
• “Just boot” is a tethered boot.  Uses whatever “Preferences” you’ve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args
• “Pwned DFU” puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below
• “Recovery fix” gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails).  Should work on iOS5 beta too
• “Select IPSW” is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection
• “SHSH blobs” has a bunch of options…
• “Fetch” – fetch current PARTIAL blobs on device.  Should complete in under 10 or 15 seconds.  Puts the set of PARTIAL of blobs on your computer as a plist.  Checks if Cydia already has a full set for this device and build.  If not, it submits this PARTIAL set and returns Cydia’s acknowledgement or rejection
• “Verify”  – cryptographically verifies existing blob files from either redsn0w, TinyUmbrella, or Cydia server.  You can select a whole bunch of blobs to verify at once if you want (like the TinyUmbrella directory)
• “Submit”  – both verifies and submits one or more blob files to Cydia.  This lets you copy your entire TinyUmbrella cache of blobs up to the Cydia server
• “Query” - queries the Cydia server for all available FULL or PARTIAL blobs for a given set of ECIDs
• “Stitch” – stitches either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a STOCK or CUSTOM IPSW

[Dev-Team Blog]

Popular third party browser for Android that came to iPhone and iPod touch a few days ago now fully supports Apple iPad. A special version of the browser has been released for iPad that is named Dolphin HD and it brings a fully optimized Chrome browser like tabbed browsing for the larger screen of iPad. Dolphin also brings customizable gestures that it is known for to iPad’s web browsing.

In Dolphin web browser you can navigate the web and perform certain tasks by performing on screen gestures. The app features a gesture button in its bottom menu bar, this will enable gestures for you. In gesture mode you can draw a sign or add a new gesture for certain tasks within the browser.

Other features of Dolphin HD browser for iPad include

Webzine
Bring out the beauty of the web and with Dolphin Webzine users can experience the web like never before.

Tabbed browsing
Real tabbed browsing. Feel like you are on a desktop. Add tabs within Dolphin just like you would on a desktop.

Sidebar
We implemented two side bars for you to access Bookmark and Tool Bar without going through complicated clicks; you can access Tool Bar simply by swiping from the right edge of iPhone screen to left. You can access Bookmark simply by swiping from the left edge of iPhone screen to right.

Speed Dial
Put favorite sites on Speed Dial. Stop looking around in your bookmarks. Forget about typing out long URL. Just put your favorite sites on Speed Dial.

Smart Address Bar
Smart and effortless browsing by auto-completing URL and context menus When you type the first few characters of a URL, Dolphin auto-complete the URL by displaying all results from both bookmarked items and your browsing history.

Bookmark Folder
We implemented Folder in Bookmark. Now you can organize your bookmarks into different folders, as you currently are doing with your desktop web browsers!

Desktop Mode
Switch between desktop view and mobile view according to your needs Need to view the full site of facebook sometimes on mobile? Dolphin helps you do that.

You can download Dolphin HD browser for your iPad for free here

Are you interested in creating digital logs of events happening in your life on your iOS device, then you should really try LifeLogger app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. LifeLogger allows users to log different events from their daily life into a simple multi subject logger. It features a simple, sleek user-interface and you can sort your logs by creating different topics that are related to events and information about your daily routine.

With LifeLogger app, not only you can create logs but you can also add photos and notes related to your logs. As the App’s iTunes description page describes, LifeLogger is not a ToDo-list application and you simply have to add the tasks or events that have already been performed/happened in your life instead of those you want to do (although you can use it either way).

The app is useful for a number of ways, like

• Write down your goals or dreams, and then record your every effort to achieve this goal;
• Recording the movies you have seen;
• Recording the books you have read ;
• Recording the places you have traveled;
• Recording your toys, digital products or your collections and the other similar things;
• Recording the information of body-building exercises;
• Recording the things you want to buy;

You can download LifeLogger app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad from the App Store for $0.99 here

Google recently launched a new web app for its Google Music beta service. The web app allows iOS users to listen to music by signing into their Google Music accounts. Google Music is still an invite based service and is only available to US users at the moment. Previously on iOS devices, the full web version used to open when users pointed their browsers to music.google.com but that has changed now and now users see a nice web app especially designed for their devices.

The web app features a sleek design that is a perfect example of simplicity at its best (something Google is not best known for). You can browse your songs by artist, album, genre, or playlist. As TNW notes, the app also works in the background and users can control the volume with external keys of their devices.

You can try Google Music’s new web app for iOS if you have an account by pointing your browser to http://Music.Google.com

Google Music Web App on Apple iPad

[TheNextWeb]

Google has finally released the Blogger app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The app is now available in the App Store for download. This new application by Google will allow iOS users to write, draft, and publish new blog posts right on their iOS devices. It also allows users to edit drafted or published articles created on Blogger.com on the go.

You can add photos to the app from your iDevice’s gallery or take a fresh one and upload it directly to your Blogger account using the application.

Features of Blogger app for iOS include:

• SelectInclude pictures from the gallery or by taking a picture directly from the app
• Select account/blog if you have more than 1
• Add labels
• Add location information
• Save as draft or immediately publish
• View list of saved/published posts

You can download Blogger app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad from the App Store for free here

A recently released Cydia tweak called IAP cracker allows users to download In-App purchases for free. This tweak cracks in-app purchases as long as the app doesn’t check the purchase with the iTunes server. This tweak does not enable all in-app purchases automatically and it does not even work on many App Store applications.You have to buy/steal the In-App purchase like you would normally do.

I tested it personally and it worked on many apps that i am not going to name here because we are totally against any type of App piracy and i decided to report this news just because this is an unusual hack that we don’t see everyday and we would like Apple to fix this issue as soon as possible.

IAP is available in Cydia Store under Insanelyi and xsellize repositories for free.

Disclaimer: We do not recommend this tweak to anyone as In-App purchases are a major source of income for many developers who put a lot of work in creating awesome apps that we know and love. We are not responsible if this tweak  does not work for you and you wasted your money in trying to steal the In-App purchases for your own pleasure.

A new messenger for iOS devices called PingMe is now available in the App Store. Available on most of the popular mobile platforms of today, PingMe allows users to chat with their friends with PingMe installed on their devices regardless of their device’s platform. With PingMe messenger you can group chat with your friends and people in your circles.

PingMe chat service is totally free of charge and does not require you to enter any username or password. Instead you just have to give your phone number while signing up and that becomes your PingMe ID.

PingMe also has a ‘news feed’ feature that brings latest updates from people in your contacts. You can also find nearby friends with Geo-Location feature of this IM messenger.

Just like any other good instant messenger you will receive push notifications on new messages and PingMe will tell you whether the person on the other end is typing something at that moment or not. You will also get Sent/Delivered/Read message notifications for your sent messages.

PingMe allows you to chat with your friends with iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices. Windows Phone support will be added soon.

You can download PingMe Messenger app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad from the App Store for free here.