Retrieve lost or forgotten Windows password

September 3rd, 2010 by Lemon

Forgot your Login password ? This work on Windows Xp & Vista .. I am not sure about other Windows coz I haven’t tried it.

But if you do encountered the problem, user Hiren Boot CD..

I tried the ssh thingy, and other recommendations & tricks.. ALL DIDN’T WORK!

Then I tried Hiren, download the program, burn into a bootable CD, run it.

Follow the menu, is so simple & easy, I succeeded on my first attempt, how cool is that..

Good Luck!

Chocolate for baking

May 21st, 2010 by Lemon

How do you choose a good gourmet chocolate for your chocolate cake / cookie or for another processed food that use chocolate? Well, of course each people has different preference of their own choice of chocolate, but below are some points to considerate for the finest pleasure ;)

1. Appearance

The appearance should be evenly coloured, whether it is a mahogany brown, deep red, or black; and it should be smooth without cracks, air holes, streaks, blemishes or sugar bloom. Darker is not necessarily better, as a dark colour could mean the beans have been over-roasted. In fact, many top chocolatiers prefer to see a red hue to their chocolate (with dark chocolate), a rich flavour and well processed.

2. Touch

Chocolate should be silky to the touch, not sticky, and begin to melt if held between your fingers for a few seconds. Cocoa butter is solid at 33C, but melts at 34C. The speed of melting is an indicator of cocoa butter content, the better the quality the faster it melts.

3. Aroma

The smell of chocolate is a key part of the experience; it’s where the taste experience starts. Sweetly chocolaty, with a well-balanced yet complex fragrance – if the chocolate is good quality. Scent flavours to note are vanilla, and tones of berry and caramel. If you smell any off-notes in the fragrance, be wary, there should be no sour notes.

4. Feel or snap

When you break off a piece of the chocolate, you can sense a lot about the quality of chocolate produced by the chocolatier. A clean snap, a snap with crispness, reveals that the cocoa butter quantity is high. Though not an indicator of chocolate taste quality, it does indicate if cheap vegetable fats have been used. Chocolate with a high level of added vegetable fats and other cheaper fats crumbles or splinters. It does not have the same clean “snap” that cocoa butter gives your chocolate, together with a distinctive tree-bark-like texture.

5. Mouth-melt / texture

- The chocolate should start to melt straight away.

- It should not be grainy or gluey. If the chocolate is “waxy” or “clacky” it can indicate that vegetable fat has been substituted for cocoa butter. If the chocolate has a very high vegetable fat content, then it’s not real chocolate.

6. Flavour

Good quality chocolate has a bitter-sweetness, fruity – spicy, with a depth of sensual and subtle mellow flavours with a good balance of acidity and sweetness. The complex flavours are dependent on cacao bean quality, the way the beans were processed, and the skill of the blender, – and that is before it is made into the chocolate bar or the product you taste and bake with.

7. Aftertaste

Good quality chocolate leaves a clean but complex lingering taste in your mouth for many minutes, even up to half an hour or more later.

However, chocolates are still effected by which country you are living in coz that’s where the ingredients are come from and mostly sold in market.

More like tips to eat & choose the fine chocolate to be eaten also right :)

Well, let’s practice it the next time you choose your gourmet chocolate.

Fondue or Fondu

May 21st, 2010 by Lemon

Lots people know fondue as chocolate fondue when it actually has quite variety in ingredients & from the term meaning itself, let we start with this article by cutting out the word.

Got this explanation from : http://www.thefreedictionary.com

fon·due also fon·du

1.

a. A hot dish made of melted cheese and wine and eaten with bread.
b. A similar dish, especially one consisting of a melted sauce in which pieces of food, such as bread, meat, or fruit, are dipped or cooked: chocolate fondue.
2. A soufflé usually made with cheese and bread crumbs.
[French, from feminine past participle of fondre, to melt; see fondant.]
3. (Cookery) a Swiss dish, consisting of cheese melted in white wine or cider, into which small pieces of bread are dipped and then eaten.
Where the thesaurus function said it as this:
1. fondue – cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces
2. fondue – hot cheese or chocolate melted to the consistency of a sauce into which bread or fruits are dipped
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so know we know that fondue is the sauce to practice / if I may say the style of eating of dipping the food into sauce, and not just the term for another cooking style called : chocolate fondue
(well,, at least that’s what I thought before I did this research :p)

For summary: the concept of fondue is to dip a small portion of food ( usually speared at the end of a stick) into a heated sauce ( could be chocolate sauce, beef sauce, whatever kind of sauce).

(realizing all these make me remember that fondue has already existed from long time ago coz Asterix & Obelix  have been eating this way when they were traveling to Swiss to get the Edelweiss flower,, hahaha :p)

Find the way to make chocolate fondue

Blood sugar level

April 28th, 2010 by Lemon

I believe I am and has always been the “sugar, sweet food, sweet tooth” kind of person.. If you realize & read my blogs before, that I really  love chocolate, haha.

Then last week I’ve really given a serious thought about the level of sugar in my blood, I had this thought before, but I don’t really care and ignore it. But the past few days that I’ve been bitten by mosquitoes and the mark won’t & didn’t go off fast like it used too, that’s when I started to look information about it.

Actually I am not really sure if the mark problem is because of the sugar level or not, just my assumption. hahahah… so don’t be trick eh readers ^^ , then I found some interesting articles bout blood sugar level & tips to maintain it to healthy level.

1. Exercise regularly –> do some cardio activities , this  really helps to reduce & release toxins from your body. A brisk 20 minutes walk can help reduce your sugar level.

But if you are after a very heavy exercise, don’t forget to refuel with fruit or glass of fruit juice.

2.  Having some kind of protein with carbohydrates, such as milk or yoghurt, meat, eggs, fish and pulses, will help to slow digestion even further and keep blood sugar balanced and steady.

3. Drink water, tea (green tea is recommended) or coffee; herbal teas; orange, grapefruit and apple juice <–

4. Take cinnamon –> take a teaspoon of cinnamon to your tea, or yogurt, or put it in a capsule. However if you imagine to eat it with cinnamon roll, you might not get the result..  deee.. hellooo.. of course :p

5. A hot bath / shower increases blood circulation and can lower blood sugar.

So, those so far that I’ve read and can share with you all the natural way to reduce sugar level in blood, of course if your blood sugar is too high already, consult with doctor, take insulin :)

Ow ya, I paste a part of nice article I read from:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article3503845.ece

What is blood sugar?

The specific type of sugar in our blood is glucose, the brain’s main source of energy. In healthy people, glucose levels are tightly controlled by two hormones. When levels are rising, insulin is released to help bring it down, and when heading on the low side, glucagon is released to push it back up again.

After a meal, glucose levels can rise very temporarily, but are brought back down to within the normal range quickly. For some people, however, normal can be too low.

When normal is too low

Chris Cheyette, a registered dietitian, of Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, says: “The problem is that this whole area of why some people are more affected than others is not very well understood in the medical world and is difficult to explain, but, anecdotally, we do know that it happens.”

When the amount of glucose being delivered to our brains falls into the truly low range in people with diabetes, the effects can be dramatic as Cheyette, also a spokesman for the British Dietetic Association, explains: “Studies have shown that when levels of blood sugar reach very low levels in people with type 1 diabetes, real personality changes can be recorded, with people becoming aggressive and argumentative. Less drastic irritability and snappiness are certainly possible in people without diabetes who are oversensitive to the lower end of normal.”

The reason for blood sugar levels falling to this point is often simply because it has been too long since your last meal and along with getting grumpy, concentration is also affected. Claire Williamson, a nutrition scientist from the British Nutrition Foundation, says: “Studies have shown that if you work within two hours of last eating, your powers of concentration are greater than after six hours without food when your levels of blood sugar will be lower. Even though these lower blood sugars are not dangerous to health, they are clearly affecting brain functioning.”

Change letter case in excel upper to lower

April 23rd, 2010 by Lemon

Another tips for excel that I just used today:

change all your UPPER CASE letter to small case letter, or small to UPPER CASE, or even to make it start with upper case and small case after that / first word capital only.

use these formula:

copy it in the empty cell, the (A1) is the cell you want to change the letter, you can change the cell number to the place where u want to change the data.

=UPPER(A1)

change small to uppercase / all capital

sample: i want to learn –> I WANT TO LEARN

=LOWER(A1)

change UPPERCASE / capital letter to small case

sample:  I WANT TO LEARN –> i want to learn

=PROPER(A1)

now, this proper is the nicest one, it can change every first letter to become capital and small the next, make it a real proper word.

sample:  I WANT TO LEARN –> I Want To Learn

really smart, I like it ;)

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Then, there is also formula to check the validity of the word written in cell in term of the letter case.  It return FALSE or TRUE on the cells that you write the formula, it’s to check the cell destined in formula whether the writing correct / not, try & paste these formulas for checking:

=EXACT(A1,UPPER(A1))
=EXACT(A1,LOWER(A1))
=EXACT(A1,PROPER(A1))

With this validation in place, the user can enter only upper, lower, or proper case.