HOW TO MAKE LEMON MINT GRANITAS

I had a similar drink when i first visited a star rated hotel, it had something else which tasted a little bit like the alcoholic drinks.

GINGER WINE RECIPE

This time i thought of making something which is pleasing to both the tastebuds as well as the stomach.

SOLAR ENERGY FOR YOUR HOME

You too can utilize the energy of sun to run you devices. Here i would like to share the options to turn solar energy rays into power, computation of the solar energy needs of your house and some impressive ideas.

REJUVENATE YOUR DYING LAPTOP BATTERY

Laptop Battery is a very delicate as well as a very important part of the laptop , a laptop has no meaning without it .

FOR ALL NON-BLOGGERS

Blogging for Beginners Ask yourself what you really like, proper value or wish to discuss with others.

Wednesday 11 September 2013

HP Envy x2 review


PROS
  • Well-built
  • Attractive design
  • Good display and speakers
  • Good battery power life
  • Full-size SD cards slot
CONS

  • Overpriced
  • Atom performance still disappoints
  • Less battery than some rivals
  • No included stylus pen, optionally available stylus pen not Wacom


The era of the convertible Windows 8 tablet/laptop is well and truly upon us. All the famous labels have tossed their metaphorical  safety gloves into the field with a whole lot of form aspects, such as slider tablets like the new laptop Toshiba Satellite TV U920t, twisters such as the Lenovo ThinkPad twist, and even flip-screen designs such as the Dell XPS Duo 12.


However, the most exciting convertible solution is the detachable tablet with key pad docking station. This not only gives you a product without the weight of laptops computer key pad when you do not want it, but also means you get far longer battery power thanks to the second battery power that is usually incorporated into the docking station. 

The drawback is that – with a few exclusions such as the New Samsung Ativ smart PC Pro and Lenovo ThinkPad Helix - most of these convertibles are not as highly effective as a frequent laptop, and usually depend on Intel’s Atom processer for their power. That’s exactly what the HP envy x2 does, so is it a port of all deals or expert of none?

                                  
Let us just easily sum up the fundamentals before getting into the nitty-gritty. Like its main competitors, the Asus Vivo Tab and New Samsung Ativ Smart PC, HP’s Windows 8 hybrid is an 11.6-inch tablet that includes a product plus removable key pad platform with additional connection and an additional battery power. One of the greatest promoting factors over Android operating system and iOS promotions is that this tablet/laptop will run many of your heritage Windows 7/Vista/XP applications.


With a Clovertail processer supported by 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage space, and a 1,366 x 768 quality for its IPS screen, HP’s effort is hardly the most highly effective Microsoft windows 8 machine around, but again these specifications coordinate the competitors and ensure that the envy x2 continues long on a charge too, with stated battery power of up to 14hrs.

HP Envy x2 - Style and Build

As its name indicates, the Envy x2 is seeking for the top top quality industry within its classification, and this is shown both in its £800 cost (where immediate competitors can be had for nearer to £700), and in its design. While the New samsung Ativ Tab uses mostly nasty and the Asus Vivo Tab uses various colors in its applied steel complete with nasty segments, the x2 activities an all-metal covering and provides a more ‘unibody’ look.


In reality, several people who saw this device around the workplace requested if it was an Laptop. Thoughts you, with the Envy x2 shut you cannot skip the massive, bright HP logo that rules the lid’s center. The webcam’s minor ‘hump’ is also something you would never see in arriving from the home that Bob Tasks designed.


Another design function we’re not too assured about is how HP has created the decision to incorporate the power key and quantity musician into its convertible; rather than placing them at the edges, it has created them aspect of the lid. This could have been very eye-catching, if only they had kept the same applied complete as their environment. As is, they just crack factors up too much, and are just a bit more complicated to discover. On the pros, they never capture the handy either, making the edges of the Envy x2 ‘tablet’ awesome and sleek.


Having said all that, there is no doubting that the HP Envy x2 is a good-looking, fashionable and well-built laptop/tablet overall, and its competitive declining creates it look like one of the thinnest Windows 8 compounds available on the industry. While quite cool in the side, that all-metal external complete also gives an unquestionable sensation of top quality and prevents undesirable handy prints.


Unfortunately, its deficiency of anodising or a responsive design creates the HP Envy x2’s product aspect a little bit slick.  Also, HP placing the tablet’s earphone port on the x2’s base (presumably for visual reasons) is just a bargain too far – though you can still connect in some headsets with the product docked, as its key pad platform copies the 3.5mm port.


The sticking out depend that connects the product and docking station increases the device’s back up when in laptop method. The dock’s depend maintains the product very safely and provides powerful, perfectly evaluated open/close activity. The product aspect is quickly launched with a front-facing change on the dock; though this procedure was a tad firm when first we performed with it, it only needed a little dressed in in.


The 19mm-thick product aspect of the HP Envy x2 is in at 690g - bulkier than the iPad 4 and Asus Vivo Tab - while including the laptop key pad docking station requires this to 1.39kg (the Asus is 1.35kg with dock). However, both the tab on its own and docking station combination are less heavy than the New Samsung Ativ Intelligent PC by a few grms.

Ultrabooks: Is it the right time to buy it??

So what are the Ultrabooks??

Yes! You heard it. Ultrabook is a brand name created by Intel for its high end laptops or notebooks which is ultraportable and reduces bulkiness without compromising its performance and battery life. It’s basically MacBook air type notebooks.

So what are their features??

They are the slimmest class of laptops in the world and some of them even have battery lives which exceeds that of ordinary laptops with bulky batteries. They obtain this perfection without much compromising on the features except that they have omitted the Ethernet ports, VGA ports and the traditional optical drives.
They are fast, portable but are they useful to you?

Indeed they will be because they are designed to your needs. Some of their advantages are as follows.
  1. They are fast portable slimmer and lightweight which makes it your perfect companion for road trips and tours.
  2. They no longer comes with 1 of all kinds of ports. In this modern era no one needs a laptop with a sample of all the available ports fitted onto it. Only very few like USB and HDMI are used while others are rarely used. VGA is sometimes used otherwise only USB and HDMI is only needed HDMI also is not very important
  3. The optical drives are now a days not so very important because of the evolution of faster, safer and smaller pen drives. When is the last time you used your laptops optical drive?? Huh months or years ago right?? It is no longer a necessary part.
  4. They comes with SSD drives which makes them faster to boot and faster to work upon. Ordinary HDDs acts as a bottleneck for the processor limiting their speed and processing abilities.
  5. Their designs are yet another crowd puller. It is known to attract crowds to wherever it goes. Hmm seems like a pied piper….it has an amazing design which amazes everyone.


Some of their disadvantages are...
  1.  They have very shallow keyboard when compared to the usual laptops, which makes longer typing works like those for your school assignments boring.
  2. They have fewer USB ports and lack of Ethernet port comes to a serious issue when the user does not have any Wi-Fi access
  3.  High price – That’s a great disadvantage for the Ultrabooks even though they are designed to being an all-rounder.
  4.  Low on storage – Ultrabooks comes low on storage because they use the SSDs for their storage purposes and SSDs are way too costly than the conventional HDDs. Most of the Ultrabooks comes with SSDs ranging from 32 GB to 512 GB. This takes me to the 2000s when the storage was costly. Now a days even the lowest laptops comes with 500 gigs of HDD and at this time 32 gigs of SSD are ridiculous.


What are the types of Ultrabooks??

 Yes there are only two types of Ultrabooks. Ones resemble laptops while the other resembling both they are called convertible laptops or tablets, or hybrid laptops. So what’s the big deal? Of course you don’t have to carry your tablet and laptop around you the same time. Moreover tablet alone seems to be like a toy or a gimmick. But when it comes to a hybrid it a way lot meaningful.

So let’s come to our point.
Why not buy an Ultrabooks now? You may have guessed it right. There are only three main reasons not to buy now and to wait until these three reasons are solved.
  1. The processors – they are one of the main problems in the Ultrabooks field because the modern Ultrabooks where made out of the processors that where actually designed for laptops , what it means is that you need to wait till there is an invention of a processor that is cool for a Ultrabook and is way lot faster. Today’s Ultrabooks are built by compromising their processing power for their portability and thinness.
  2. SSD – As mentioned before the SSDs coming with modern Ultrabooks has only a very low capacity from 32 gigs to 512 gigs while most of the laptops of the similar price has 1-2 TB of storage. The main cause is the cost of these SSD they are too costly. And so we have to wait for an year or so till the prices of SSDs become near to those of HDDs. There has to be some discovery in this field so that they can produce SSDs in a way too cheaper process.
  3. Freshly baked - Ultrabooks are a series of slim and lightweight laptops that are made new and so this technology is new and so more costly and we have to wait until this is quite common and made mainstream.


So when should I buy?

That’s not quite sure. You have to wait from 6-12 months before the Ultrabooks with the similar specs as those of the laptops today become as cheap as the laptop itself.  You have to wait a little.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED BY GOOGLE DOODLE

Maria Sibylla Merian's 366th wedding is being noticeable by a Search engines doodle. Merian is best known for her specific findings and certification of the change of the butterfly and other efforts to the area of entomology.

Maria Sibylla Merian was born on 2 Apr 1647 in Frankfurt. Her dad passed away three decades after her Birth, and in 1651 her mom wedded Jacob Marrel, a still lifestyle artist. Marrel motivated Merian to sketch and colour. At the age of 13 she coloured her first pictures of bugs and vegetation from samples she had taken.

Later, Merian was to papers her beginning decades in a guide, saying, "In my youngsters, I invested time analyzing bugs. At the starting, I began with soft silk viruses in my area of Frankfurt. I noticed that other caterpillars created wonderful seeing stars or moths, and that soft silk viruses did the same. This led me to gather all the caterpillars I might discover to be able to see how they modified."

Merian released her first guide, Neues Blumenbuch (New guide of flowers) across three amounts, between 1675-80. In 1679, Merian released the first number of her second guide known as Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung und sonderbare Blumennahrung - The Caterpillar's Marvellous Transformation and Strange Floral Food.  The guide included various cases detail the different levels of growth of several varieties of seeing stars, as well as the vegetation on which they fed.

This guide very well-known in certain segments of great group due to being released in the language terminology, instead of Latina, the 'official' terminology of technology at enough time. This intended that the medical group mostly ignored her perform. However, the perform Merian did locations her among one of the first naturalists to have noticed bugs straight. This strategy provided her much more understanding into their lifestyles and was in contrast to the way that most researchers proved helpful at enough time.

Maria Sibylla Merian passed away in Amsterdam, Holland on 13 Jan 1717,  aged 69.

GOOGLE COMES UP WITH A NEW APRIL FOOL'S PRANK : GOOGLE NOSE

Google Nose
Google Nose
Every year Look for Google tries to get the best of itself in pulling Apr Fool practical jokes. The hoax Look for Google affiliate marketing of Apr 1, 2013 is Look for Google Nose, which Look for Google says is "The new sensation in search".
According to the description of item, Look for Google Nose, that is still in try out, controls new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available. Google Street Sense vehicles have consumed and indexed millions of environmental miles and Android Normal Smell Recognition gathers odors via the world's most sensible mobile os. Look for Google Nose also contains SMELLCD 1.8+ high-resolution compatible (whatever that is) for precise and controlled smells.
With Look for Google Nose customers can go beyond type, talk, and touch for a new note of sensation. The Look for Google Knowledge Panels can pair images, explanations, and scents. Look for Google Nose search also contains SafeSearch, to keep customers away from unnecessary odors.

Google also announced the release of the scratch and smell books, Google Foodles (Google's food designed doodles now improved with smell), self-driving new car fragrance and YouTube nosed sayings.
As part of its sequence of Apr Fool's Day practical jokes this year Google had announced Really Advanced Search and also 'Quest' that transformed Google Charts pictures into an 8-bit movie gaming experience. Pursuit was said to be Google best Apr Fool's Day nuisance ever. This season Google has added a new value map method on Google Charts.
This season, in addition to Google Smell, YouTube has published videos clip stating that the eight-year-old website that is now the most popular movie location is drinking its shades for a several years. But before it erases all those an incredible number of hours of movie, YouTube has also empanelled most judges to select that one specified movie that and the the champion will be announced when the website goes back on the internet in 2023.
Google+, Google social media service, lets users add emoticons to their images. At Googlemail, there's Googlemail Blue and on Google Statistics you can see how many visitors from the Worldwide Space Place - Control Room are currently visiting your website.


Tuesday 2 April 2013

HOW TO MAKE LEMON MINT GRANITAS

I had a similar drink when i first visited a star rated hotel, it had something else which tasted a little bit like the alcoholic drinks. This is a great drink to keep up with the hot summer. Its a cool refreshing experience when u drink it slowly enjoying the drink.


Ingredients

Serves : 2

200 g Sugar
15 cubes of ice
100 ml of cold water
2 lemon
4 mint leaves

PREPERATION METHOD

Preperation time : 15 mins

1. Add the ingredients ( Sugar, cold water, lemon and mint ) to the mixer grinder and mix it very well for 2 minutes
2. Now filter the mixture and then pour it again into the mixer grinder and then add the ice cubes to it .
3. Now mix it very well for 2-3 minutes ie till all of the ice cubes are powdered.
4. Take to glasses and pour the lemon mint granitas to them and decorate it with mint.
5. Don't forget to add a straw and sip it slowly and enjoy it.

Hope you loved the recipe..
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