Dennis Sellers

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Apple has given us a watch. Will it give us an Apple Ring? The company has filed an application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for "devices and methods for a ring computing device."</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">watchOS 2 allows you to easily add Apple Pay support in the Wallet app in watchOS 2. This gives you the ability to use merchant rewards and store-issued credit and debit cards on your Apple Watch.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px"><a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/ow2dpx9" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yellow Lemon Software's FolderGlance</a>, a utility for browsing files and folders, is still a solid addition to your Mac's software arsenal after all these years. With version 3.0.5, it's able to resolve aliases on Mac OS X Yosemite. Alias handling on older Mac OS X releases has also been improved.</p>

<p>Approximately 97.9% of the total population in Japan now owns at least one personal computer, according to a survey by <em>Kakaku</em>, which provides price, products and other information of merchandise and services including PCs, home electronics, broadband and mobile phone telecommunication fees, food, drink, interiors and cosmetics. That's up 1.8 percentage points year-over-year.</p>

<p>Network-1 Technologies — which "works with inventors and patent owners to assist in the development and monetization of their patented technologies" — says United States District Judge Robert Schroeder III of the Eastern District of Texas has issued an order denying a motion made by Apple to certify for appeal the court's prior ruling denying Apple's motion for summary judgment.</p>

<p>Apple says it's sold more than 13 million new <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/" rel="noopener noreferrer">iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus models</a> just three days after launch. That's a new record, beating the 10 million units sold in the launch weekend of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Extra charges for the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus on China's black market are a lot lower than last year when the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were released thanks to Apple's efforts to increase stock and shorten shipping time, the Chinese language news portal, <em>DoNews </em>reports.</p>

<p>If you do a lot of template-based document creation but find the templates that come with Apple's Pages is too limiting, check out Publisher Plus from PearlMountain Technology. It's available for US$19.99 at the <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/q5jyl7q" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mac App Store</a> in the Graphics & Design category.</p>

<p>Apple has released iOS 9.0.1. It's a maintenance release that addresses several issues, including (per Apple):</p>

<p>With the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/" rel="noopener noreferrer">iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus</a> due to arrive Friday, T-Mobile has unveiled an US$5 a month for the iPhone 6s and $9 a month for the iPhone 6s Pluswith JUMP! On Demand and trade-in of an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus. Unfortunately, those prices are for the 16GB models, which have a paucity of storage.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Fifty-one of Apple Pay users are "extremely satisfied," compared to 32 percent of contactless card users who said the same, <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/nmsmth4" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to new data</a> from eDigitalResearch. The research group's study shows that over a third (40 percent) of shoppers who have an Apple device have used Apple Pay to pay for goods or service</p>

<p>If you longingly remember the heyday of digital albums, you're the person for whom Turntable for Mac. It's a "real album" app for Mac OS X and is available at the Mac App Store for US$14.99. (A demo is available at the <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/nn63wuk" rel="noopener noreferrer">product web site</a>.)</p>

<p>Apple plans to start selling its smart watch in Brazil in October, according to <em>InfoMoney</em>, a web portal based in Brazil that covers financial and business news. However, it's going to be expensive.</p>

<p>Apple’s redesigned company store opened this past weekend in Cupertino, California. Among the changes — according to <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/npzu9p7" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacMagazine</a> — the store will sell, for the first time, the iPhone, iPad, Macs, and Apple Watch along with a new collection of Apple-branded merchandise including clothing, mugs, and other collectibles.</p>

<p>Apple, the Japanese market leader, saw its share of Japan's smartphone market, drop from 51.1 percent to 39.1 percent in the second quarter, reports <em>MK Daily Economy</em>, a daily newspaper based in Seoul. Meanwhile, Samsung's share of Japan’s smartphone market hit 12%, up from 5.2 percent in the first quarter.</p>