Dennis Sellers

<p>Since many modern Macs come with limited internal storage, it can be handy to move space-consuming items like your OS X Photos library to an external drive. Thankfully, it’s easy to do this. Quit the app, attach an external drive to your Mac, and then:</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.farmawaygame.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">FarmAway!</a> from Futureplay Games is a farming app in which players tap and swipe to cultivate cute animals, crops and virtual riches. The game plays on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. It’s also one of the first games released for the fourth generation Apple TV, and it’s that platform on which I tested it.</p>

<p>I’m a big fan of Photos, Apple’s replacement for iPhoto and Aperture. However, there’s one feature it lacks that I really want: the ability for the app NOT to sync certain photos and/or folders to iCloud.</p>

<p>The iPad Pro is shaping up to be a hit in Japan. Five percent of Japanese consumers say they plan to buy Apple's super-sized tablet, according to a new survey by Mobile Marketing Data Lab (as noted by <a href="http://brightwire.com">BrightWire.com</a>, a global investment newswire).</p>

<p>With Mac OS X El Capitan, you can now hide the menu bar. Personally, I don’t do this, but you can enable this feature if you wish. When you do, the menu bar disappears until you move your cursor to the top of the screen. To make this happen:</p>

<p>If you want to resize your JPEG images for the best web performance or create thumbnails for an image gallery check out <a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/1Qmv6uT" rel="noopener noreferrer">iResizer</a> for Mac OS X (10.7 or higher). It scales an image without changing important visual content such as people, buildings and animals — and avoids distortion of the important parts of the image.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Apple is planning to bring its Force Touch technology to Mac keyboards, as evidenced by a new patent filing (number 9178509) with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The patent is dubbed “ultra low travel keyboard.” </p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">According to new data from <a target="_blank" href="http://intelligence.slice.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slice Intelligence</a> and its panel of over three million online shoppers, male buyers 65 and older spent the most on Apple products over the past year than any other group, with an average online spend of $976.  </p>

<p>Apple's share of smartphone shipments in Japan fell 7.2 percentage points YoY to 50 percent in the first halfof 2015 (that’s April to September), or 6.31 million units, according to a report by MM Research Institute (as noted by <a href="http://brightwire.com">BrightWire.com</a>), a global investment newswire.</p>

<p>Apple has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that found the company conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, reports <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/ptvqyv" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>. The Cupertino, California-based company wants the high court to review a June ruling that favored the U.S. Department of Justice, and found the company liable for engaging in a conspiracy that violated federal antitrust laws.</p>

<p>The worldwide tablet market recorded lower shipments for the fourth straight quarter with 49.4 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), according to preliminary data from the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.idc.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">International Data Corporation (IDC) </a>research. That’s down -11.2% year-over-year.</p>

<p>iOS 9 made some changes in the way you switch from one app to another. For example, the App Switcher has new overlapping design. iPads sports three multitasking superpowers: Slide Over, Split Screen, and Picture in Picture (which should be really useful with the upcoming iPad Pro).</p>

<p>A Wisconsin federal court judge has Apple must pay $234.3 million in damages for infringing on a computer processor patent by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).</p>

<p>A new survey by <a href="http://www.juniperrsearch.com">Juniper Research</a> finds that smartphone users, regardless of their mobile preference, consider Apple the “coolest brand” for wearable technology. Apple was followed by Samsung, Google, LG, and Sony.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/qe4rbwn" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Lunatik: Flak case</a> for the iPhone gives your Apple smartphone its own flack jacket for protection. Sorry, I couldn’t resist the bad pun.</p>