North Pole 2000 vs 2010

North Pole 2000 vs 2010

Delicious Apple Pie Recipe

Delicious Apple Pie Recipe

Apple pie is a part of almost all American Traditions. It has, in a way, become a tradition itself. It is what brings families around the table for dessert after a good, Thanksgiving meal. It is the fragrant aroma that fills Grandma’s kitchen the night of Christmas Eve.

Ingredients

* 6 cups thinly sliced apples
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie

Directions

* Prepare your pastry for a two crust pie. Wipe, quarter, core, peel, and slice apples; measure to 6 cups.
* Combine sugar and cinnamon. The amount of sugar used depends on how tart your apples are.
* Arrange apples in layers in pastry lined pie plate. Sprinkle each layer with sugar and cinnamon. Dot top layer with small pieces of butter or margarine. Cover with top crust.
* Place on lowest rack in oven preheated to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake for 30 to 35 minutes longer. Serve warm or cold.

Ice Castles around the world

Photos of the best architectural structures of ice. The compilation can see the Ice Hotel in Yukkasyarvi (Sweden), a hotel in Quebec, installation in Berlin, pavilions Alexander Brodsky at Klyazma.

Simple mehndi at beautiful hand

Simple mehndi at beautiful hand

Digital Storm XM15 Gaming Notebook

Digital Storm XM15 Gaming Notebook


Digital Storm has just announced a new 15-inch gaming notebook, the xm15, highly configurable in terms of hardware, to ensure that the variants to choose more suitable for gaming and entertainment experiences of performing and engaging.

The basic configuration sees Digital Storm XM15 equipped with a Core i5 2.4-GHz, NVIDIA 425M 1GB and a screen resolution of 1366 x 768; the best configuration instead sees the presence of a Core i7 to 2.67 GHz, 8 GB RAM and a resolution of 1920 x 1080. The other notable specifications include an HDMI port and USB 3.0 standard.

Whatever the configuration chosen, the xm15 also boasts the presence of NVIDIA Optimus, which allows you to choose whether to use the dedicated graphics card or the built in different situations and needs, to save power when not needed high performance.

The starting price for the basic configuration dell'xm15 is 999 dollars (about 760 euro exchange rate), certainly you could not expect anything less.