Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has introduced new ways customers can enjoy and support America’s national parks with an Apple Pay donation program and Apple Watch Activity Challenge.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A rare Apple-1 computer, the first personal computer produced by Steve Jobs and Steve “Woz” Wozniak at the fledgling Apple Computer Company in Palo Alto, California, in 1976, is being offered for sale by RR Auction on <a href="http://www.invaluable.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Invaluable</a>, an online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted two patents involving the integration of its Maps app in CarPlay. Compatible with iPhone 5 and later models, CarPlay provides a simplified way to use your iPhone interface on a car’s touch screen, giving users access to Siri voice controls, as well as Apple Maps, Apple Music, Phone, Messages, and a variety of third party apps.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">New actions by the Australian government agency, Heritage Victoria, may delay or jeopardize Apple’s plans for a store in Federation Square. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple will open its first store in Kyoto, a cultural and technological hub for Japan, Saturday on Shijō Dori. It will be the company’s ninth retail outlet in the country.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Were you saddened when Apple announced in July that it was ending its photo print service? Don’t be. <a href="https://www.motifphotos.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Motif</a>, a new, free macOS extension from the company that’s been printing Apple’s photo books since 2005, fills the void just fine.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Software startup Cloudtenna is working a global file search (GFS) solution that, for the first time, provides native desktop integration into Apple’s Spotlight search feature and Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has added banners to the iTunes Store and its App Stores so folks can donate to Mercy Corps and help who have been affected by the summer-long flooding in Kerala, India. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple looks to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam, reports <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shazam-m-a-apple-eu/eu-set-to-clear-apples-bid-for-music-app-shazam-sources-idUSKCN1L71N3?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28Reuters+Technology+News%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Reuters</em></a>, quoting two unnamed “people familiar with the matter.” A decision is due by Sept. 18.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Addigy, a provider of cloud-based Apple device management software, has announced new security and management enhancements to the company’s Apple Device Management Platform.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">WaterField Designs has introduced the <a href="https://www.sfbags.com/products/tech-folio-gear-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tech Folio Plus</a>, a gear organizer designed to protect an iPad and electronic accessories that IT consultants and specialists in their field carry with them every day. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jen Folse, an Apple exec who served as lead designer on a number of projects including tvOS, has left the tech giant to take a senior role at live social broadcasting startup Caffeine.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple’s <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRQU2ZM/A/leather-sleeve-for-15-inch-macbook-pro-midnight-blue?fnode=7dd73d40c47ca3aa7632108a14091a1be0eeaa5ae466c21a71643f0bd06b4da37e32de7cc3359ee0abc76ca5ae1c8cbf326aa26e3fd628619ca548f73f3dc9f6efb3f61db419a980d6bb27f2edc33c17e9c9f7e073c7d1d02d19226d53a085d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leather Sleeve for 15-inch MacBook Pro</a> is a thing of beauty — as it should be for $199. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple apparently wants you to sleep better. The company has been granted a patent (number 10,052,061) for “adjusting alarms based on sleep onset latency.” In theory, this would allow an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch to adjust their built-in alarm clocks to adapt to your sleep patterns.</p>