Dennis Sellers

<p>Apple <a target="_blank" href="https://www.apple.com/cn/retail/chaoyangjoycity/" rel="noopener noreferrer">says it will open its 27th store in China</a> on Saturday, Nov. 28, in the Chaoyang Joy City shopping mall, Beijing. It will be the fifth Apple Store to open in China’s capital city.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/p979lb7" rel="noopener noreferrer">Camtasia</a> is an application for recording and annotating audio and video captured from your Mac commonly known as screencasting.  I’ve used other programs in the past to do raw captures from my Mac and then did the painful editing in iMovie and GarageBand but Camtasia does everything  with an intuitive and easy to use Mac interface.</p>

<p>Another day, another lawsuit. Apple has been hit with a second class action lawsuit claiming that the company failed to properly warn users that the new Wi-Fi Assist feature in iOS 9 will use data from their cellular plan.</p>

<p>In a note to clients — as noted by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.appleinsider.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">AppleInsider</a> — Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Acuri says the A9X CPU found in the iPad Pro poses a threat to Intel as it surpasses the Intel Core M processor (the one used in the new 12-inch MacBook).</p>

<p>As announced, Apple is taking orders for the iPad Pro online. However, instead of waiting until Friday, you can pick one up today at an Apple retail store (at least as long as supplies last).</p>

<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>