Dennis Sellers

<p class="">Accessibility features in iPad OS 14 now include Headphone Accommodations, which amplifies soft sounds and tunes audio to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts sound crisper and clearer, and sign language detection in Group FaceTime, which makes the person signing more prominent in a video call.</p>

<p class=""><a href="http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=10155052&l=534f5e2b-0696-4024-b9d6-0682d2cefa74&r=6060754b-6d0d-42b2-a54c-af72b3f1e684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JustWatch</a> an international streaming guide, says that Netflix is responsible for 45% of the overall content spending since 2010.</p>

<p class="">OWC has announced <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/owc-copy-that/id1536830655" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OWC Copy That,</a> an app that lets you copy photos and videos from your iPhone or iPad directly to external storage devices.</p>

<p class="">The third "forgotten" co-founder of Apple, Ronald G. Wayne, has announced signed replicas of the original Apple Computer Company contract, Apple-1 Operation Manual, the early "Newton" Apple Computer Company logo, and Ron's autobiography "Adventures of an Apple Founder" are now available for purchase on his <a href="https://www.ronaldgwayne.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official website</a>.</p>

<p class="">Apple is on its fourth round of developer betas for its various operating systems. New release candidate builds of iOS 14.3, iPadOS 14.3, tvOS 14.3, and watchOS 7.2 available for testing.</p>

<p class="">While an U.S. $35 audio cable is suggested by Apple for use with its new <a href="https://steven-sande.squarespace.com/config/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AirPods Max</a>, the <a href="https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/airfly?variant=31242622566457" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twelve South AirFly Pro </a>is a $55 adapter that solves the missing link between wireless headphones and wired headphone jacks.</p>

<p class="">The new <a href="http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-20273-macvoices-holiday-gift-guide-4-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacVoices Live!</a> has Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, Mark Fuccio, and host Chuck Joiner offering more holiday gift ideas. With all the gift guides over the years, you would think that no more “firsts” could happen, but they do and on a regular basis. Find out what surprises happened this time around.</p>

<p class="">Synology says it’s introduced an entirely redesigned unified operating system powering Synology data management solutions, DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.0, during the online 2021 AND BEYOND event.</p>

<p class="">Apple wants an Australian court to throw out a case brought by Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, because the developer promised to settle disputes in the U.S. only, reports the <a href="https://nz.news.yahoo.com/apple-wants-fortnite-court-case-thrown-023755574--spt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Australian Associated Press</a>.</p>

<p class="">Wearing face masks are mandatory in lots of place; however, has hindered the face recognition technology of newer iPhones, and users have been struggling to get their phones unlocked while in a public setting, according to <a href="https://www.sellcell.com/blog/report-79-of-iphone-users-want-touch-id-to-make-a-comeback-in-the-future-iphones/">SellCell</a>.</p>

<p class="">Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has moved its self-driving car unit under the leadership of top artificial intelligence executive, John Giannandrea (pictured) who will oversee the company’s continued work on an autonomous system that could eventually be used in its own car., reports <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/apple-shifts-leadership-of-self-driving-car-division-to-ai-chief" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a>.</p>

<p class="">Logitech has announced the US$199.999 <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Flogi.link%2Ffmmsf&esheet=52344554&newsitemid=20201208005939&lan=en-US&anchor=Circle+View+Doorbell&index=1&md5=cdcc16986ddd6c7232b78ad0237dc73a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Circle View Doorbell</a>, a wired video doorbell developed exclusively for Apple HomeKit.</p>

<p class="">Season two is still filming, but Apple has already renewed “For All Mankind” — the drama series from Golden Globe nominee and Emmy Award winner Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures Television — for a third season.</p>

<p class="">Engineers at Cloudflare (an Internet privacy company), Apple, and Fastly (which makes a programmable edge cloud platform) have developed a new proposed DNS standard — co-authored by engineers from Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly — that separates IP addresses from queries, so that no single entity can see both at the same time.</p>

<p class="">Apple says Fitness+, the first fitness experience built around Apple Watch, is launching Monday, December 14.</p>