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27 October 2011
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Apple

There's a report over at MacRumors that says Apple are planning to build a solar farm right next to their gargantuan data centre in Nortah Carolina, which will probably be used to generate a large percentage of power for the facility when the solar farm is up and operational. Perhaps this has something to do with how Apple also hired the Yahoo data centre chief just a few days ago.
Mac accessory company Twelve South has released the second version of their USB speaker, the BassJump. There's also a new version of the software that aims to blend the music between the bass of the BassJump and the mostly-treble of your MacBook speakers. Most of all though, the BassJump just looks really, really cool.
Jon Stokes explains why the ARM Cortex A15 could possibly be the future of the iPad and possibly even the MacBook Air. If you've read the Steve Jobs biography you might have come across the part where Steve didn't like Intel chips due to how they were designed, and how inflexible they were.
There's a nice tip on OS X Daily that shows you how to increase the contrast of a PDF to sharpen and darken text — perfect for those PDF documents that have been scanned a little too lightly.
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