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Apple’s plans for a $1 billion server farm in North Carolina has been officially announced.

:“This opportunity is… fabulous,” Catawba County Economic Development President Scott Millar said at a joint meeting of county commissioners a…

Icon Lab is proud to introduce their latest stock icon set titled Unity. This package includes 225 stylish and professional icons in various sizes and formats for web design, as well as application development on various platforms. This pack is a great choice for designing and developing web sites, web applications, as well as Macintosh and Windows applications.

MildMannered Industries today releases Baseline 1.5, the superfast disk scanning app for Mac OS X. Version 1.5 adds a much requested feature, allowing users to select and delete multiple items from their hard drives. Multiple levels of undo are also supported, in case of over-enthusiastic deletions. Baseline 1.5 now uses zip for compress files and folders and includes many fixes for stability and memory usage.

Small business software developer Acclivity today announced the release of the long-awaited Canadian version of AccountEdge, their small business accounting solution for the Mac. The release marks the return of AccountEdge to Canada after an eight-year absence. The Canadian version of AccountEdge comes packed with new features. The command centre interface has evolved with a more streamlined design, plus the addition of the Task List, a sliding drawer for quick access, and more.

St. Clair Software today announced the release of Default Folder X 4.2.1. Default Folder X enhances the file dialogs in all Mac OS X applications. It provides fast navigation to your files, convenient previews, integrated Spotlight tagging, and more. Version 4.2.1 adds file previews to Default Folder X’s hierarchical menus, refines support for OpenMeta tagging and offers many compatibility and feature improvements.

Fudzilla reports that the graphics performance of the integrated graphics in Intel’s next-generation mobile processors (Arrandale) will exceed the performance of the current Intel mobile platform (Montevina).

As always, Intel codenam…

Macvide today announced VideoFlash Converter 2.7, their video to Flash conversion utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, VideoFlash Converter allows conversion of QuickTime compatible video files to Adobe Flash. All of the most popular formats are supported, and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. VideoFlash Converter offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the conversion process.

Game developer syncRage today released Taxi Drive New York for iPhone and iPod touch for free. Now available as free version, gamers make money as a taxi driver on the asphalt of the Big Apple. You must confront yourself with increasing traffic density and can earn additional lives and unlock licenses for new neighborhoods. Taxi Drive New York is one of those games that is brilliantly simple and provides an awesome amount of fun. A real Crasher for in-between.

syncRage today announces Sorty 1.0, their new game for iPhone and iPod touch. Drag all the colored balls over the bar of the same color getting rid of them and providing more space for new balls. To get more points, easily connect neighboring balls of the same color by dragging over them. Following the principle of endless gaming, the challenge always gets bigger. Every 5000 Points, bombs fall down which clear the playing field.

The following situation describes a common problem people seem to be having with AirPort reconnections. While most people do not seem to have these symptoms, many, including me, have experienced the following problem with AirPort:

You connect to a password-protected wireless network. In the process, you check the box requesting that AirPort remember the network and password. When you start up your computer, or when you restart your AirPort card, AirPort connects to your preferred network with no difficulty. Hooray, AirPort remembers the password!

However, if you get disconnected and try to reconnect without restarting AirPort or rebooting, AirPort prompts you for a password. For some reason, AirPort forgets that it already has the password. If you try to switch networks on-the-fly, the same thing happens — AirPort seems to forget that it already has the password.

What’s really going on here is that on-the-fly network switches utilize password and permissi…