The Pragmatic Studio announced Friday “iPhone/iPad Programming,” a programming series of classes the company is offering in Santa Clara, CA and Chicago, IL. The four day course will be taught by developers Matt Drance and Daniel Steinberg, and includes hands-on coding experience.



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White Shoe Media released Subrats Friday, an iPhone game that has the player helping the rats eat. We woudn’t want the rats to starve, now, would we? It seems the problem is that the food the rats need is always on the other side of the subway tracks, and you have to help them get there.



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The Human Genome Project at Ten, 3D Cell Simulation and Stain, and This Day are in Vern Seward’s focus in this week’s Free on iTunes.



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If you need some secure storage, the Deal Brothers found a deal on the Apricorn A25-BIO-500 BIO 500GB Biometrically Secure Hard Drive for $109.99, including free shipping.



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Apple settled a patent infringement lawsuit several days ago with Minerva Industries over claims the Mac and iPhone maker was using unlicensed technology in its iPhone products.



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TMO’s Mac Geek Gab Squad Support forum is a great place to go for help with your tech-related Mac, iPhone and iPad problems, including issues like sorting out the difference between hardware and software-related Mac stability headaches.



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Apple launched the iPhone 4 in several more countries on Friday, although many customers in New Zealand were left wondering if they had been left off the list. Shoppers lined up outside Vodafone stores were initially told the new version of Apple’s combination iPod and smartphone wasn’t available and there wasn’t any word on when units would arrive.



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CAZE introduced its Zero 5 case for Apple’s iPhone 4 on Friday. The case measure 0.5mm thick, and the company claims it’s the thinnest iPhone 4 case available.



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The Omni Group announced the immediate availability of Omni Focus for iPad on Friday. The iPad version of the task management app includes an interface designed just for Apple’s multimedia tablet device and supports syncing with the Mac and iPhone versions of OmniFocus, too.



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Following Apple’s confirmation that it is aware of performance issues on some iPhone 3G units after upgrading to iOS 4, a workaround of sorts has surfaced. In some cases, disabling Spotlight category searches fixes the issue returns the iPhone 3G to its normal not-as-peppy-as-the-iPhone 4 performance.



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Apple will be opening its Covent Garden store in London on Saturday, August 7 at 10AM. The Covent garden Apple Store will sport the usual amenities including a Genius Bar and One to One sessions, and marks Apple’s 28th retail store opening in the UK.



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The iPhone 4 works just as well and just as bad as competing smartphones, at least in Norway, according to Oslo-based newspaper Verdens Gang, which tested the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS,  HTC Wildfire, and Nokia E71 on the outskirts of Norwegian carrier Telenor’s network. The newspaper’s conclusion is that all of the smartphones suffered the same possibility for signal attenuation, and pointed to AT&T’s network as the possible source of problems in the U.S.



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Apple is promising that Mac OS X 10.7 will contain a new feature the company calls “revolutionary” in a job posting on the Apple Web site. According to the posting, this unspecified feature, “has never been done before and will truly amaze everyone,” and the company used the word “revolutionary” to describe the feature three times.



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Apple is aware of complaints from customers who have upgraded their iPhone 3G to iOS 4. Responding to a request for comment from The Wall Street Journal’s Digits column, an Apple spokesperson told the paper that the company knows about the complaints and is investigating the issue.



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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts and investors that working with hardware partners to develop a tablet that is competitive with the iPad has “job one urgency” Thursday. The comments came at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analysts Meeting as he briefed analysts on hand for the event on his company’s overall business.



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ActiveTrak announced Thursday the release of GadgetTrak 3, a new version of the company’s tracking software that allows users to track multiple devices from one Web-based interface. Aimed at families and small businesses who want to be able to find their laptop, desktop, or netbook computing device if it’s stolen, GadgetTrak can remotely track the location of the tracked devices.



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If you have an iPhone 4 or other iOS 4 compatible device, you’re probably running iOS 4.0.1. Great. But what if you want to downgrade back to iOS 4.0 or iOS 3.1.3? Too bad. You probably won’t be able to do it. At least not easily. There are several roadblocks that get in your way. The source of these roadblocks is Apple. They have deliberately made it difficult to downgrade. Why have they done this? How have the done this? And how you can circumvent their obstacles? You are about to learn the answers to all of these questions.



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Just Mobile announced a new stand for the iPad called UpStand Thursday. The stand is made from aluminum, with rubber-fitted grips to protect your device. Thestand will work in portrait or landscape mode, and it can accomodate many iPad cases too.



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