Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Over 180 million shoppers are expected to take advantage of Black Friday deals this holiday season. Smartphones top wish lists this year according to a survey conducted by Gazelle, an online marketplace for consumers to buy and sell previously owned electronic devices.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The gang at iFixIt, which tears part tech items and looks at their innards so you don’t have to, has taken a look at the 2018 MacBook Air. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">About four years ago, Ben Kunz writing for <em>Bloomberg Businessweek, </em>predicted that Apple devices will someday project holograms "like you’ve never seen." Sounds a bit out-there, right? But Kunz could have been onto something. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has applied for a patent (number 20180322709) for “systems, methods, and computer-computer-readable media for placing an asset on a 3D model” involving the Mac as well as iOS devices. One goal: enhance gaming experiences.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple Iconsiam will open Saturday in Bangkok on the shores of the Chao Phraya; it’s the tech giants first store in Thailand.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple announced its new iPhones in September and with each pre-order date came a surge of sales from developed nations such as the U.S. Singapore, Switzerland, and United Arab Emigrates, where residents may only have to work a handful of days to purchase them, making the new iPhones a reasonably affordable amenity.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Is your Magic Mouse acting sluggish and tracking slowly? If so, there are several steps you can take to get it back up to speed (literally).</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has upgraded  iMovie and GarageBand for macOS and iOS, and the latter for iOS only. All updates are available at the Mac App Store and Apple App Store.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The battery can be individually replaced in the new MacBook Air, according to Apple's internal Service Readiness Guide for the laptop, notes <a href="http://www.macrumors.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors</em></a>. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Clips, Apple’s free app for iOS that lets you create and share videos using an he iPhone or iPad, gets a new update that includes more content for video creation.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple's newly announced MacBook Air has been in mass production since September and is expected to see a wave of replacement demand despite its $1,199 starting price, “which is much higher than expected,” according to <a href="http://www.digitimes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Digitimes Research</a>. The laptop is expected to help the tech giant secure fourth place in the global notebook market.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">TwelveSouth has launched the $79.99 <a href="https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/powerpic?utm_source=twelvesouth.com+subscribers&utm_campaign=70066d230c-PowerPic+Launch&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_76703c9491-70066d230c-59275963&mc_cid=70066d230c&mc_eid=4cec9fbb29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PowerPic,</a> a picture frame that wirelessly charges your phone. It works with all Qi-enabled smartphones, including all recent iPhones.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">According to sales-rank data for Best Buy, Apple's AirPods wireless headphones shot to the #1 spot for October sales for their first time. They were #2 in September behind the Amazon Fire TV Stick, according to <a href="http://www.thinknum.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thinknum</a>, a data firm.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple wants to make it easier for you to user your iPhone or Apple Watch to find that parked car when you forget where you left your vehicle. The tech giant has been granted a patent (number 10,121,374) for “parking event detection and location estimation.”</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There are several ways to delete mail in the Mail app of macOS Mojave.  To delete a message from a Mail notification or with a swipe, the “Move discarded messages” option in <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/viewing-preferences-cpmlprefview" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Viewing preferences</a> in Mail must be set to Trash; otherwise, the message is archived.</p>