Dennis Sellers

<p>Tibor Andre's Tune-Instructor provides handy workflow options for organizing iTunes files, plus playback controls on your Mac. With the software, users can organize their song libraries, lyrics, artwork, files, and folders however they wish. </p>

<p>On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today</em> posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks.</p>

<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the third spot on <em>Vanity Fair</em>’s 2017 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/new-establishment-list" rel="noopener noreferrer">“New Establishment” list</a>, a ranking of “of tech savants, moguls, financiers, and entertainers, among others." That’s up from 11th in 2016. Ahead of him on the list are Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (second place) and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.</p>

<p>Ireland faces a rebuke from European Union authorities for failing to collect a year-old tax bill of as much as 15 billion euros (about US$17.6 billion) from Apple, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/irish-said-to-face-rebuke-for-tardy-recovery-of-apple-billions" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>.</p>

<p>In a note to clients — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/02/truedepth-camera-with-face-id-could-limit-apples-iphone-x-production-to-30m-units-this-year" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a> — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has reduced his forecast for iPhone X units this year to 30 million to 35 million units.</p>

<p>Apple has released ARM-ready source code for the XNU kernels found in iOS and macOS, “marking a first for iOS, and possibly showing off some of the groundwork for Macs with ARM-based processors,” reports <em><a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/02/apple-posts-arm-compatible-source-code-for-xnu-kernels-in-ios-macos" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a></em>. The code is <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/tree/master/bsd" rel="noopener noreferrer">available</a> through a GitHub repository.</p>

<p>More than half of the folks who plan to purchase the iPhone X will go with the higher priced 256GB model, according to a new survey by RBC Capital Markets — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.macrumors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors.</em> </a></p>

<p>Samsung will make $4 billion more from making parts for Apple’s iPhone than for its own Galaxy S8 handset, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research— as noted by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apple-rival-samsung-also-wins-if-iphone-x-is-a-hit-1506936602?mod=rss_Technology" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Wall Street Journal</a>.</p>

<p>Apple wants the iPhone to be able to “remotely control” a hearing aid, as evidenced by a new patent filing (number 20170280225). In the patent filing, Apple notes that modern hearing devices are high tech computing devices equipped with multiple speakers and types of speakers and are capable of receiving sound data from multiple audio data sources such as microphones attached to the hearing device as well as being able to stream audio data directly to the hearing device. </p>

<p>With iOS, you can block contacts and phone numbers on your device. You can also filter iMessages from unknown senders and report iMessages that look like spam or junk.</p>

<p>Searchware Solutions' Print Window is a useful window printing utility for macOS. Integrated with the Finder, it allows users to print a file listing of folders with a simple key command (or other methods of triggering a file listing).</p>

<p>There’s a lot happening in the world of Apple news this week. Following are the hottest articles for the week of Sept. 25-29.</p>

<p>On Sept. 12, Apple finally rolled out a product that I’ve been waiting for: the Apple TV 4K with HDR. I have a 4K TV (but it lacks HDR support — darn it!), so it’s a welcome upgrade. And one that helps Apple catch up with the competition.</p>

<p>An “alarming” number of Macs remain vulnerable to known exploits that completely undermine their security and are almost impossible to detect or fix even after receiving all security updates available from Apple, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/an-alarming-number-of-macs-remain-vulnerable-to-stealthy-firmware-hacks/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>ars technica</em></a>.</p>

<p>Apple is expanding efforts to develop proprietary semiconductors to better compete in artificial intelligence, reducing reliance on major suppliers such as Intel and Qualcomm, reports <a target="_blank" href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Apple-A-semiconductor-superpower-in-the-making?page=1" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Nikkei</em></a>, quoting unnamed “industry sources in Asia.”</p>