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Ultimate Guide for Speeding Up your Windows 7 - RuhaniRabin.com. Windows 7 is, finally, a great operating system.

Ultimate Guide for Speeding Up your Windows 7 - RuhaniRabin.com

Advertisement Every version of Windows, has many services enabled, while many optimizing tweaks are not enabled by default. The reason this is so is because the installation is designed to support a very generic set of devices and hardware. The cool part of using Windows is the ability to fine tune it to your needs. Some call this tuning process “Hacking”, others called it “Tweaking”. Before I get all technical, it’s important that you check your hardware and choose the edition of Windows 7 that best suits your system: Choose Windows 7 32-bit if you have: 3GB or less system memoryDual core or single core processorBuilt in graphic card250GB or less hard drive Choose Windows 7 64-bit if you have: 4GB or more system memoryi7, Dual core or Quad Core processorDedicated PCI express graphic cards such as Nvidia or ATI250GB or larger hard drive Now that that’s out of the way – on we go to the good stuff… 1.0 Disable Unwanted Services Alternative method:

How to Make Mozzarella. Editor's note: To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of New York's beloved Murray's Cheese, our Tam Ngo visited the cheese shop to make mozzarella with the pros.

How to Make Mozzarella

—The Mgmt. Clockwise from left: curds, the wrong way to pour water, stretching, balls in brine. [Photographs: Tam Ngo] Making mozzarella at home is ridiculously easy, especially if you've got Kevlar hands. Mozzarella is a pasta-filata style of cheese which involves hand-stretching hot curds into pliable strands. At Murray's Mozzarella Making class at Murray's Cheese in New York, I learned that my desk job makes me ill-equipped to endure blazing hot baths of cheese. Raw hands aside, the class was a raging success. Be sure to check out Murray's website for their budding roster of hands-on courses. Murray's Recipe for Making Mozzarella from Pre-Made Curd. Perfect Roasted Broccoli. We’ve talked about broccoli before.

Perfect Roasted Broccoli

How they have a bad rap. How {most} kids despise them and feed them to the dog or hide them in their napkin instead of eating them. I’m no fool. My sister {or maybe it was just me} would put our bites of baked potato in our glass of milk while pretending to take a drink. Hey… I was a there, man. What I think is happening or not happening, is that broccoli should be roasted. Ya see, when broccoli, oil and a wee bit of kosher salt are tossed together on an aluminum sheet pan and roasted in a 500 degree oven… magic happens.

My nine-year-old won’t eat anything green. Grab your knife and cut the stems off of a head of broccoli. Trim the broccoli heads into florets, cutting the larger ones in half so they are all pretty uniform in size. Like tiny trees. Throw the broccoli onto the sheet pan with a heavy drizzle of oil. Season with a couple pinches of kosher salt, toss them around and then spread them out so they have their own space on the sheet pan. That’s it! Happy Boobs — Brittany, Herself. Two days ago we went to the Sing-Along version of Frozen, because we still have money left in our retirement account and haven’t yet fulfilled our apparent moral obligation to continuously bolster the box office success of this cartoon.

Happy Boobs — Brittany, Herself.

I had just finished the reprise of For The First Time in Forever, I as Elsa and Gigi as Anna, obviously, when I bent down to grab my popcorn and *SNAP* Second underwire snapped in a month. You know those medical miracle news stories where they show x-rays of dudes with nails in their heads that somehow missed every vital area, one day you will see my chest cavity on the screen with a u-shaped wire narrowly missing my beating heart.

That or one of those ohcrapwhatsinmyrectum x-rays. It could go either way. I have been in an abusive relationship with my breasts. At 8 bound them down with ace bandages, at 17 they hung below the table during strip poker, and at 28 they began to rest adorably in my arm pits when I lay down. Life Hackable.

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