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Apple Buckwheat Muffins Recipe

2008-08-17T15:46:34+02:00

Apple Buckwheat Muffins RecipeIngredientsFrom http://www.delicious-food.org1 cup flour1 cup peeled, cored, finely choppped apple3/4 cup buckwheat flour1/3 cup sugar1/4 cup chopped, pitted dates, or use raisins1 1/2 tsp baking powder1/4 tsp baking soda1/4 to 1/2 tsp cinnamon1/8 tsp salt3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk2 tablespoons oil1 egg,lightly beatenDirectionsPre-heat oven to 350F and prepare regular size muffin tins with a light spray of non-stick cooking oil, or use cupcake papers.In a mixing bowl, combine buttermilk, oil, apple, and sugar.Add the rest of the ingredients, and blend until just moistened.Divide batter equally among muffin cups, approximately 2/3 full, more or less.Bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick can be cleanly removed from the center of a muffin. Prev: Apfelfannkuchen (Apple P Next: Apple Buckwheat Muffins

Apple's suspiciously tempting ways

2008-03-16T16:05:00+01:00

An article in Business Week attempts to get at the secret of Apple's design success. They say it boils down to developing ten genuinely different prototypes to a highly finished level, then letting two separate weekly meetings work away at them. One is briefed to only think 'blue sky', the other must address the practicalities. Ten ideas are then refined to three and finally to one.

I've been using a Toshiba laptop instead of my usual Apple one. It's like comparing a Lada with a Porsche. The Toshiba is all tacky, plastic ugliness compared to the Mac's seductive, clean lines, where everything is understated, integrated and in just the right place.

The Apple design process certainly works: Apple's laptop market share is up by 38% on last year, placing them 9th amongst the competition. The iPhone's iconic status as the must-have accessory for elite geeks so worries Google that they've launched a broadside against it. They claim their open source 'Android' programming environment will achieve more sales because it will be on many different manufacturers' phones.

OK, Apple's design process is thorough, and mildly innovative, but that's not it. They succeed because they have an uncompromising design-led vision - and they stick with it because they know the quality of their design has become an overriding factor in their customers' buying decisions.

Windows enthusiasts love to mock Apple and their lead designer Englishman Jonathan Ive CBE, whose early career famously included designing sanitaryware in London. Even in this apparently metrosexual age, there's bizarrely still something suspect about owning a computer that not only looks good but actually works as well. It seems real men not only don't eat quiche, they also don't do foofy computers that might (whisper it) call into question their owners' masculinity.

iPhone Application Development Bird's eye view

2007-06-17T13:00:00+02:00

Apple iPhone is round the corner... So what's in my mind? Oh yeah the next time any one is going to US, I am getting iPhone. I simply can't resist that device by the looks of it.

Now what's on my mind as a developer? Do I want to create the next gen apps for iPhone? Oh yeah I do! I wanna make an early entry in this field as Jobs will be waiting for me (I mean the literal jobs, can't say about Steve Jobs)

Ok lets have a look at the iPhone commercial:

Wow now that's what I call the future of cell phones... And how would it feel to create apps for such a wonderful device. So what are the mobile phone applications that I am going to need in this? I bet Photo sharing is primary (if its not already in built) then probably i will also look forward to social networking. Document/file sharing is another aspect that I would want to look into.

So will this be really revolutionary? As for as I know, Apple doesn't plan to release any official SDK for development. Now thats sad. I think had that been addressed, I would have been able to make any damn application for my iPhone. However overlooking that, I think this device still is revolutionary. It really provides the kind of touch and feel that no other phone does.

I would definitely want to create a few apps for this mobile and try my luck... but time will tell.

Signing off from this thread!

cya!

By an iRack

2007-03-22T02:45:00+01:00

Review of ”iWoz” by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith

2007-03-08T20:14:23+01:00

iWoz is the sort of book I would have loved ten years ago, and indeed it's the sort of material that makes for a great radio interview. If written in 1995, it would have been one of my favorite books of all time. As it is, Stephan Wozniak's autobiography is a fine partial history of the era that saw the rise of the personal computer. It belongs in the same class as High Noon (about Sun Microsystems) and The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (about the Next-Apple transition). A step below true classics like Fire in the Valley, iWoz is quite good.

How He Founded Apple, Invented the Personal Computer, and Had Fun Doing it (, And Afterwards)

iWoz is broken into several large parts. The first section focuses mostly on Wozniak's electric-logic experience, from earlier science fair experiments to an arpanet terminal that would eventually morph into the Apple I. These include early pranks and feature elements of obsession, sacrifices, humility, and geography that I would find as the basis of creativity in my series on Coming Anarchy. Woz's systematic exploration of electronic circuitry would finally come together in the Apple II, a product he is quite proud of and truly one of the grandest achievements of the 1980s.A second, gloomer half documents Steve's inability to horizontally apply these skills to other aspects of his life. Two marriages fail and after the second he writes painfully of losing his house. Likewise, with grace and modesty Wozniak documents betrayals by Steve Jobs and poor treatment to the news media. Similarly, Wozniak documents the failures of his US Concerts to be either what he intended or profitable, and likewise his shortlived CL9 start-up firm.In an earlier review of Robert Weisberg's Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius, I criticized that author for his differentiating "horizontal" and "analogical" thinking. While Weisberg's book retains many problems, this distinction is not one of them. While analogical thinking is the root of all creativity, horizontal thinking is worthless -- expertise does not "translate" from one domain to another unless analogies help bridge those domains.So all in all, iWoz is a very enjoyable book. It's a fun guided tour of the early days of the Personal Computer, and has some valuable things to say along the way about the nature of creativity.