Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://moodo.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moodo</span></a>, a smart home aroma diffuser, sounds like a good idea, and while it does offer pleasant aromas for your home or office, it’s set-up, well, stinks.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Macs may soon be able to interact more with their graphics processing units (GPUs) or external GPUs (eGPUs) such as the Blackmagic eGPU and Blackmagic eGPU Pro Apple makes in conjunction with Blackmagic Design.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You can use Quick Look in macOS Mojave to view photos, files, or a folder without opening them. You can use Quick Look for items in Finder windows, on your desktop, in emails, in messages, and other places.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,152,861) for a wireless security camera system that utilizes an iPhone.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">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 this week’s picks.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Commonwealth Bank of Australia <a href="https://twitter.com/commbank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has announced</a> that Apple Pay is coming to its customers in January. It’s the second band in the country to accept Apple’s mobile payment system.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has made a deal with <span style="text-decoration: underline;">DHX Media </span>to produce new <em>Peanuts</em> content for the tech giant’s upcoming streaming service, according to <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/apple-peanuts-dhx-media-1203089976/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Variety</em></a>. The streaming service is expected to debut in the first half of 2019.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Another day, another lawsuit. Apple is being sued for allegedly making fraudulent marketing claims about both the size and pixel count of its OLED iPhone displays.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovative Introductions has released Idea Phrase Creator, a productivity app for Mac designed to help creative writers get over writer's block. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Satechi has announced that three of its Type-C adapters are now available in a gold finish to complement the latest USB-C products on the market, such as the gold MacBook Air, while expanding device’s capabilities.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PhoneSoap</span>, the company that makes a smartphone charger that cleans and sanitizes the device while it charges, has launched the portable version of its device – PhoneSoap Go. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will weigh in on an intellectual property dispute between Apple and the chip supplier Qualcomm over sales of iPhones found to infringe a Qualcomm patent, agreeing on Wednesday to reconsider whether the telecom giant's asserted patent is obvious and whether an import ban against the iPhones would be appropriate, reports <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1111162/itc-will-review-patent-dispute-between-apple-qualcomm?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology&read_more=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Law360</em></a>.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Elago’s <a href="https://amzn.to/2EjU3e6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">W5 Stand</a>, a $16 retro Apple Watch stand that’s a tribute to the Nintendo gaming classic, is a neat little stocking stuffer for Christmas. It’s compatible with all of Apple’s smartwatches and is, to use an old cliche, as cute as a button.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">With macOS Mojave, you can implement Smart Folders, which automatically gather files by type and subject matter. They’re updated as you change, add, and remove files on your Mac.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple is working on tech for improving FaceTime audio conference calls using its Beats headphones or AirPods. The company has filed for a patent (number 20180359294) for “intelligent augmented audio conference calling using headphones.”</p>