Share Gallery: November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

Cassata Gelato

This version of the Sicilian frozen dessert is loaded with fruit and utterly irresistible.

Yield: makes 6–8 servings

Prep Time: 25 mins, plus freezing time

Cooking Time: 10 mins

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Marzipan Oranges

Serve in petits fours cases after dinner with coffee.

Yield: makes 12

Prep Time: 5 mins each

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Orange Sorbet

Brightly colored and vibrantly flavored, a citrus sorbet is a satisfying summer dessert.

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 10 mins, plus freezing

Cooking Time: 15 mins

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Saffron Kulfi

Kulfi is a kind of ice cream that is eaten all over India. This recipe uses condensed milk for convenience.

Yield: makes 6–8 servings

Prep Time: 10 mins, plus freezing

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Nokia N900 Delayed In The UK

Nokia has had to delay the launch of its new Maemo powered handset, the Nokia N900, in the UK due to the huge demand for the mobile phone, and the amount of pre-orders Nokia has received.

The Nokia N900 was due to go on sale in the UK this week, but now it looks like it won’t be available until the 4th of December, this is mainly to to the fact that the demand for the handset has far outstripped Nokia’s supplies.

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Bicio GoRide iPhone Bike Mount

We have seen a few different bike mounts for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS here ate Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is from a company called Bicio, the GoRide iPhone Bike Mount.

The GoRide iPhone Bike Mount is designed to be mounted on your bikes handlebars, and it is designed to give you access to your iPhone whilst you are riding your bike without sacrificing safety and convenience.

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Nokia X6 Music Phone Now Shipping

Some of our readers will remember the Nokia X6 that was announced back in September, good news if you have been waiting to get your hands on one as the Nokia X6 is now shipping in the UK and Europe.

The Nokia X6 features a 3.2 inch touchscreen LCD display with a resolution of 360 x 640, it comes with 32GB of storage built in and features a 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and a dual LED flash.

Nokia X6 Music Phone Now Shipping

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Paskha

This Easter dish from Russia is traditionally made in a tall wooden container, but a new flowerpot is used here.

Yield: makes 4 servings

Prep Time: 40 mins, plus draining

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Apple Yogurt Compote

Served hot, warm, or cold, this is the simplest of desserts.

Yield: makes 4 servings

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cooking Time: 35–40 mins

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Chocolate Marquise

This very rich chocolate mousse has a velvety texture and is delicious served with tart summer berries

Yield: makes 10-12 servings

Prep Time: 15 mins

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Warm Fruit Compote

A good winter dessert when fresh fruit supplies are limited.

Yield: makes 4 servings

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 5–10 mins

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Pears Poached in Wine

Wine gives a great depth of flavor to cooked fruit.

Yield: makes 4 servings

Prep Time:

Cooking Time: 30 mins

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Créme Pâtissiére

This sweet pastry cream is a rich and creamy filling for fruit tarts and cream puffs.

Yield: makes about 1¼ cups

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 5 mins

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Chocolate Custard

This is a rich sauce, that can be served hot or cold.

Yield: makes about 1½ cups

Prep Time: 5 mins, plus cooling

Cooking Time: 10 mins

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Raspberry Coulis

This quick and easy fruit sauce is an excellent way to add a fresh flavor to many desserts.

Yield: makes just over 1 cup

Prep Time: 10 mins

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Nokia 5130 Xpress Music Red

Feel the difference after owning Nokia 5130 Xpress Music Red

It has the capabilities to rendezvous distinct kinds of need of distinct classes of users and keeping all the wonderful characteristics that it presents to its client in mind it can be resolved that it is perfect in every aspect.

The classic bar shaped casing is 107.5mm in height, 46.7mm in width & 14.8mm in depth which fits into the user hand perfectly when in use is popular as Nokia 5130 Xpress Music Red. It weighs 88 grams which is lightweight and therefore it becomes easy to carry. It is the gadget that comes with a 2 Inch QVGA screen which has a coloured display & below the screen the user will find the navigation controls, call keys & a numeric keypad. It is a widget that comes with a built in music player which supports a large range of music playback formats including MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, Midi, WMA, WAMR & MXMF formats. Not only this, it comes with easy to access volume keys which allow the user to control their sound in an instant & with easy to reach music keys which allow the user to enjoy the music playback feature.

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Dulce de Leche

This caramelized dessert sauce originated in Argentina but is now beloved all over the world.

Yield: makes 8 servings

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cooking Time: 3¼ hrs

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Macaroons

These cookies are crisp outside and slightly chewy inside. When storing, they tend to dry out—so just give in to temptation.

Yield: makes 24 cookies

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 15 mins

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DayOld Cake with Fresh Stewed Fruits and Zabaglione

Yield: Serves 6

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Fresh Fruit Sherbet

Yield: Makes 1 quart

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Lemon Cream

This is very nice with Angel Food Cake.

Yield: Makes about 1 cup

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Orange Ambrosia

Yield: Serves 6

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Chocolate Snow

Chocolate snow is one of winter\'s pleasures, not unlike the hot maple syrup New Englanders drizzle into snowbanks where the syrup hardens into crystalline webs.

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Pumpkin Mousse With Crystallized Ginger

Yield: Serves 6 to 8.

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Pinon Brittle

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Grapefruit and Champagne Sherbet

Yield: Makes about 1 quart

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Pumpkin Seed Brittle

I hope I’m making your life easier when I say you should make this well in advance of dinner. This is not just because you need the brittle to be completely cold before shattering it into shards to serve with coffee, but because making caramel with an audience, or even the prospect of one, can be a step too far. I always like any form of cooking which involves a possible element of danger, but even so, regard that as a private pleasure. I wouldn’t want to have a tableful of people waiting as I did it. It would be as nervy-making as reversing into a parking spot with a crowd of passers-by grinding to a halt to watch and make those irritating would-be-helpful hand signals as you do so.

Yield:
Serves 8

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NoChurn Pomegranate Ice Cream

It’s not hard to think of a dessert that can be made in advance. But mostly the advantage is simply that all the effort is upfront and early. The thing about this recipe is that you do it in advance — it’s ice cream, so that stands to reason — but what you do in advance is negligible in terms of effort. You don’t make a custard, and you don’t have to keep whipping it out of the deep freeze to beat the crystals out of it. No, you simply squeeze and stir.

On top of that cause for greater contentment, there is also the fact that this delicate pink ice cream tastes like fragrant, sherbety heaven.

Yield: Serves 8

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Irish Cream Tiramisu

I’ve long been tinkering about with a bottle of Baileys, seeing how it could best be called upon in the kitchen, and I think, with this, I’ve found it. An Italian friend of mine, who makes a killer tiramisu herself, was an instant convert. I was relieved; the Italians generally are conservative about their food, which goes some way to explaining the longevity of their cherished culinary traditions. But this only sounds like some sort of joke — “Did you hear the one about the Irishman and the Italian ... ?” — and in reality is an elegantly buff-tinted, creamy-toned variant of the punchy if comfortably clichéd original.

Yield: Serves 12, though it doesn’t have to ...

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Samsung Omnia II Coming To Verizon December 2nd

Verizon has announced that the Samsung Omnia II will be available from Verizon Wireless from the 2nd of December.

The Samsung Omnia II will be available for $199.99, after a $100 mail in rebate on a two year contract, it features a 3.7 inch touch screen display, and runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and features Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI.

Samsung Omnia II Coming To Verizon December 2nd

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O2 UK Offering Free HTC HD2

As well as being available on Vodafone, O2 has now announced the availability of the HTC HD2 on their mobile phone network in the UK.

The HTC HD2 is available for free with O2, on a £45 a month, 18 month contract, as opposed to the Vodafone contract which costs £35 per month but lasts for 24 months.

O2 UK Offering Free HTC HD2

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Google Maps Navigation Now Available For Android 1.6

Google [GOOG] has announced that their new Google Maps Navigation, which was launched a couple of weeks ago on Android 2.0, is now available on all handsets that are running Google Android 1.6.

Google Maps Navigation was previously only available on the Motorola Droid, but it will now be available on a range of handsets which include the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1.

Google Maps Navigation Now Available For Android 1.6

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Nokia 6700 Slide Mobile Phone

Nokia has added a new mobile phone to its range with the launch of the Nokia 6700 Slide.

The Nokia 6700 Slide comes in a range of funky colors, which include, pink, red, petrol blue, aluminium, lime and purple, it features a 5 megapixel camera, with aq built in dual LED flash and it can record video in MPEG-4 VGA up to 15 fps.

Nokia 6700 Slide Mobile Phone

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Nokia 7230 Mobile Phone

As well as announcing the new Nokia 6700 Slider, Nokia also launched another mobile phone today, the Nokia 7230.

The Nokia 7230 features a 2.4 inch TFT display with a resolution of 320 x 240, it features a 3.2 megapixel camera with a dedicated camera key, it also has 3G connectivity, and easy access to a number of social networking sites including Facebook.

Nokia 7230 Mobile Phone

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Sony Ericsson Saito Removed From UK Retailers

Two of the biggest mobile phone retailers in the UK, the Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U have removed Sony Ericsson’s flagship mobile phone from their shelves in the UK.

The retailers have stopped selling the Sony Ericsson Saito because they have both had a high number of returns and complaints about the phone, where users have had a problem with it.

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HP iPaq Glisten Smartphone

HP and AT&T have teamed up to launch a new smartphone, the HP iPaq Glisten.

The HP iPaq Glisten is a GSM Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with an AMOLED screen, and it features a full QWERTY keyboard, as well as a range of features which include WiFI, GPS, SMS/MMS.

HP iPaq Glisten Smartphone

Other features include support form Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel as well as PDF files, so it is designed with the business user in mind.

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Tidbits From The World Of Mobile Phones, Circa: Now

With so much going on in the mobile phone industry, I have decided to do a bit of a comprehensive round up. This is an essential update of all the intriguing new phones that you have had your eyes on. Like the X6, the N900, the HD2, etc. This is a strictly non-Apple/iPhone update, mainly because that needs a separate post. ;) There’s a second part coming in a bit.

Get over to the other side and get updated in the mean time.

Nokia X6 To Land In The UK This Friday

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Italian Wedding Soup

I had a wonderful time in Boise with my sisters and girlfriends. We ate at all of my favorite restaurants and my sister had her co-worker make her AMAZING chile rellanos for us again. They are pure heaven! We watched a couple of really good movies, relaxed and hung out with my nephews and brother in law. It was a nice weekend away with some of my favorite people. It was great to get home to see my husband and children, it's amazing how much I missed my family in such a short time away.

It was snowing when I left Boise this morning and rainy and cold in Portland so I decided to make a big pot of comforting soup. I've seen Italian wedding soup in cookbooks for years but have never tried making it before. I didn't really follow any recipe, I just made it up as I went. I am sure it isn't authentic Italian Wedding Soup but it was delicious to us! We all really loved the little meatballs and big chunks of carrot. I used beef for the meatballs because that's what my husband wanted but you could also use ground turkey or chicken. I topped the soup with Asiago cheese and fresh parsley. My kids gobbled it up and my daughter asked if she could have the leftovers in her thermos for school tomorrow. I served this soup with freshly baked crusty bread for dipping.

Italian Wedding Soup:

Recipe and photos by For the Love of Cooking.net

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One Eyed Jacks aka Eggs in a Basket

The first time I had this for breakfast was Christmas morning in 1996. I was living in Idaho with my two roommates, Dave W. and Dave M. We woke up in the morning, exchanged gifts then Dave W. made us this very delicious breakfast. Whenever I make this meal, I always think of that wonderful Christmas morning with two amazing guys. I have had a craving for this dish for awhile now so I finally made it. It's not only really quick and easy to make but kids think it's really cool.

One Eyed Jacks aka Eggs in a Basket:

Recipe and photos by For the Love of Cooking.net

1 egg

1 piece of bread, with a hole cut out of the middle

Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

Olive oil cooking spray

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Instant Chocolate Mousse

Normally, you need to make chocolate mousse a good few hours or, better still, a day, before you want to eat it, so that the egg yolk sets and the whisked whites permeate everything with air bubbles. Forget that: Here we have no yolks, no whites, no whisking, no waiting.

Lack of raw egg, incidentally, also means that you might be happier giving the mousse to small children, though I certainly feel they should not be the only beneficiaries.

Yield: Serves 4–6

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Vin Santo Ice Cream with Cantuccini

One of the loveliest desserts, if it quite counts as that, to order in restaurants in Tuscany, is a glass of vin santo, that resinous, intense, amber-colored holy wine, with a few almond-studded cookies to dunk in. The idea for this comes purely from that: the ice cream is further deepened by the addition of treacly brown sugar, and the wine in it keeps it voluptuously velvety, even after being frozen. You don’t absolutely need to serve the cantuccini biscuits (biscotti) with it, but the combination is pretty well unbeatable.

Yield: Serves 8–10.

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Bitter Orange Ice Cream

I know that suggesting homemade ice cream for an easy after-work supper makes me sound as if I’m going into deranged-superwoman overdrive, but may I put the case for the defense?

All you do to make this is zest and juice some fruit, add confectioners’ sugar and cream, whisk and freeze. This requires no stirring or churning and it tastes unlike anything you could buy. So if you’ve got friends coming over for the curry, you can serve this for dessert to amazed admiration without giving yourself anything approaching a hard time. I use my KitchenAid, but a cheap handheld electric mixer would do fine; and frankly, whisking by hand wouldn’t kill you.

I first made this with Seville oranges, but since these are available only in January here, it would be unhelpfully restricting to suggest no substitutes out of season (though you could always freeze the oranges, either whole or just their zest and juice). I won’t lie to you and say that my suggested substitutes are quite as magnificent as the original—nothing can provide that biting, aromatic intensity that you get from Seville oranges, which have the taste of orange and the ravaging sourness of lemons—but ordinary eating oranges combined with lime juice provide a glorious tangy and fragrant hit of their own.

Yield: Serves 6.

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Beef Ragout with Black Olives

Yield: Serves 6

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Chicken Stock

There’s nothing quite like the flavor of homemade chicken stock. It’s very easy to make — you can cook it overnight, strain it in the morning and refrigerate it during the day. By the time you return home, the fat will have congealed on top of the stock and you can skim it off. Use a large (minimus 6-quart) slow cooker.

Yield: MAKES ABOUT 12 CUPS (3 L)

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Cheese Blintzes

Cheese was the only filling we ever had in blintzes at home, and they were served as desserts, as accompaniments to afternoon or evening coffee, as breakfast, or as a main part of a light dinner. They freeze very well and should be fried without having first been thawed. The optional touch of wheat germ is my own.

Yield: About 14 blintzes; 2 to 4 blintzes per serving

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Citrus Fruit Salad

Refreshing, colorful and full of vitamins, this is sunshine in a bowl.

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 20 mins

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Flaky Tart Crust

The fat in our tart dough is mostly butter with a little shortening. Many people think that an all-butter crust is the goal. But even Julia Child, America’s foremost champion of butter, recommends making crusts with a combination of butter and shortening. Butter for its inimitable flavor, and shortening because that’s what makes a crust flaky.

We call for butter to be cut into ¼-inch cubes to make tart dough. The truth is, you only need to cut it that small if you’re making crust by hand. If you’re using a food processor, the whirling metal blade works so well to cut up the butter that you can get away with roughly chopping it into slabs.

Once you have the food processor out (if you’re using one) and the counters all floured up, we think it’s a great idea to make as much dough as you’ll use for the next 2 months. But don’t make the mistake of doubling the recipe. Make a batch of dough, and then make it again. And again. Making dough in small batches is key. When you make crust dough in bigger batches, you have to work it more, to cut the butter into the flour and then to work the dough into a ball. Working dough is bad. Overworking dough is a crust crime.

Yield: enough for two 9-inch tart crusts, one for now and one to freeze for later

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Crepes

Every French household makes use of crêpes, not only as a festive dessert for Mardi Gras and Candlemas Day, but as an attractive way to turn leftovers or simple ingredients into a nourishing main-course dish. Crêpes may be rolled around a filling of fish, meat, or vegetables, spread with sauce, and browned under the broiler. More spectacular is a gâteau de crêpes in which the pancakes are piled upon each other in a stack of 24, each spread with a filling. This is then heated in the oven and gratinéed with a good sauce. Or the crêpes may be piled in a soufflé mold with alternating layers of filling, heated in the oven, unmolded, and coated with sauce. Whatever system you decide upon, including rolled crêpes, your dish may be prepared in advance and heated up when you are ready to serve. Dessert crêpes, called crêpes sucrées, and entrée crêpes, crêpes salées, have slightly different proportions, but their batters are blended and cooked in the same way. The following recipe is made with an electric blender, because it is so quick. If you do not have one, gradually blend the eggs into the flour, beat in the liquid by spoonfuls, then the butter, and strain the batter to get rid of any possible lumps. Crêpe batter should be made at least 2 hours before it is to be used; this allows the flour particles to expand in the liquid and insures a tender, light, thin crêpe.

Yield: About 12 crepes, 6 to 6 1/2 inches in diameter

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Melon Cocktail

This colorful dish can be made with any melon, cut with a melon baller for a formal event or into cubes for a casual snack.

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 15 mins, plus chilling

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Samsung Diva Phones Turn Up The Bling Factor

Samsung put out on display two phones that have not been announced yet. And as one can expect, they got covered on the Internet. These phones flag off a whole new line of Samsung phones called the Diva. The first phone is a full touchscreen phone that has a 3” resistive touch display with a WQVGA resolution. It is running the TouchWiz UI, has a 5MP autofocus camera, a microSD expansion slot, Bluetooth and even FM radio. This is the S7070 and it is apparently coming out in the first quarter of 2010. The back of the phone is white with a diamond patterned texture.

Samsung-S7070-Diva

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Sony Ericsson’s Kurara Is More than What You Think It Is

Remember Kurara? That phone from Sony Ericsson That got leaked right after the XPERIA X10 came out from behind the veil? Well, we had it pegged down as an ordinary phone that is the stripped down, cheaper version of the Aino megaphone. Turns out that that is not the case at all. It is actually a pretty fast and snazzy little phone that holds the guts of a born performer.

I am referring to the fact that it is carrying an ARM Cortex A8 chip inside or so the rumor mills say. That chip is supported with a hefty Dose of RAM – whole 256MB of it. Then there is the PowerVR graphics processor – Kurara has one inside it.

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The HTC Dragon Exists And Google Has It!

Well, after the HTC CEO said in a cryptic tone that they would never make an Android HD2 there was a general round of murmuring about what happens to the rumored HTC Dragon. But there was also the other interpretation that he is simply saying that to deny it without denying it. We were in the second camp. Now if he had said that HTC will never make a Snapdragon Android phone, that would’ve been damning. It would’ve be pretty stupid on their part too and HTC has shown in the recent past that they are anything but stupid. So what’s all the hullaballoo about this time? Well, more evidence has been unearthed about the elusive HTC Dragon.

The HTC Dragon AKA HTC Passion, is going to be the toast of the Android community if it really has everything that it seems to have. Even though details have been scanty, imaginations speculations have been running pretty wild after the screenshots and live shots were revealed.

Now, Techcrunch claims that the phone has been on the prowl at Android headquarters for quite some time now and top Android people are already using it. It has been undergoing a lot of testing and it is likely that a release is imminent.

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The Plot Thickens Around The Google Phone

The Google phone is all over the Internet, thanks to a fresh wave of new leaks and speculations. It looks like the Google phone is ‘very real’ and it is being developed by Google as you read this. This news, brought to us by the good folks at TechCrunch, has created quite a sensation everywhere. So lets take a stock of what’s going on and see where the rumors stand.

According to the report published by Arrington, Google has been in the process of making a smartphone that follows the company’s directions to the T. That basically means they have a handset manufacturer who is working with them and following their specifications. In fact, the latest buzzword there is probably ‘Google Says’. So what does Google say?

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BlackBerry Pearl 9100

The guys over at CrackBerry have released some photos of the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100.

The new BlackBerry Pearl 9100 looks like a slimmer version of the BlackBerry 9700, it features a SureType QWERYU keyboard, plus a newly designed battery.

BlackBerry Pearl 9100

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Cisco iPhone Security App

Cisco has launched a free application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, that is designed to provide you with customized alerts of new security threats and more information on safe web browsing.

The Application is powered by Security Intelligence Operations, and it is designed to inform, protects, and enables you to respond to alerts and real-time threats to your network and users.

Cisco iPhone Security App

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Black and White Tiramisù

Restaurants are often the setting for celebrations and have at least one show-stopping dessert on the menu for a grand finale.

Here’s my contribution on this front–I know you can do it, and it will wow any crowd you’re cooking for. My philosophy here: If it’s worth doing, sometimes it’s worth overdoing! A lot of steps? Sure. Worth it? You bet!

Tiramisù is typically made with a strong coffee syrup and mascarpone cheese, often whipped with Marsala wine. The coffee and wine together account for the name, which is Italian for “pick me up.” In this version, I add a layer of dark chocolate mousse and spike the syrup for an adult version that’s sure to lift your spirits.

Use a good-quality bittersweet chocolate with 60 to 70 percent cacao solids. (The higher levels will make a denser mousse.) Callebaut, El Rey, Ghirardelli, Guittard, Scharffen Berger, and Valrhona are all good brands.

What to drink: Coffee or coffee liqueur will highlight the coffee flavor and complement the chocolate. Banyuls, Maury, Port, or the Spanish Dulce Monastrell will each bring out different nuances.

Yield: Makes 12 servings

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Honey Caramels

Honey collectors will enjoy trying regional or varietal honeys in this recipe, with or without the walnuts. The year my brother’s family moved to Alabama, they brought a taste of their new home, Alabama wildflower honey, back to Berkeley for Thanksgiving. I made caramels with it and carried them back to Birmingham for Christmas a few weeks later. For the more delicate honeys, increase the honey to 1/3 cup and reduce the corn syrup to 2/3 cup.

Yield: Makes eighty 1-inch caramels

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Sour Cream Ice Cream

Here is an irresistible new ice cream, gently sweetened so that you can savor the rich nutty flavor and pleasant edge of the sour cream. Nothing more, not even a whisper of vanilla, is needed. A traditional egg-custard ice cream base would have blurred the pristine flavor of the sour cream, so I chose a base of milk with a little (very little) cornstarch instead–like true Sicilian gelato. I adore this ice cream right out of the machine, with nothing but a spoon.

Yield: Makes about 3 cups

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