Dennis Sellers

<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>

<p>Apple says that, as expected, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/" rel="noopener noreferrer">the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus</a> will be available at 8a.m. local time on Friday, Sept. 25 at Apple’s retail stores. What's more, in a press announcement,  Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, says that "iOS 9 is also off to an amazing start, on pace to be downloaded by more users than any other software release in Apple’s history."</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">I love living in Nashville, Tennessee. But I can't help but be a little jealous of another city a few miles down the road: <a target="_blank" href="http://chattanoogagig.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, which has implemented super-fast, publicly owned Internet via its Electric Power Board (EPB). The city offers 1 Gigabit-per-second Internet speed to every home and business throughout the community.</p>

<p>Apple told <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/nvmc4rz" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a> that it's cleaning up its Apple App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the online store.</p>

<p>Apple executives have reportedly discussed their plans for an “autonomous vehicle” with officials at California’s department of motor vehicles (DMV).</p>

<p>At its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference Apple held a session about support for dedicated third-party gaming controllers for iOS devices as part of its MFi Program (“Made for iPhone/iPod/iPad”). At the time I thought it might mean better game controller support for the Mac, but so far that hasn't happened.</p>

<p>If you need a cool desk lamp to go with your Mac desktop set-up — or anywhere else in your home or office — the <a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/qfr5dxr" rel="noopener noreferrer">Satechi: Flexible LED Desk Lamp</a> looks good, works great, and even sports a USB port.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">When Apple releases an update of its mobile operating system iOS, as it did yesterday with iOS 9, millions of users rush to update their iPhones and iPads. However, we make the switch to the new operating system, we shouldn’t be surprised to see apps crashing more often than we may be accustomed to.</p>