Thursday, August 14, 2008

digital music and life without the labels

Ultimate Fiber Banana Nut Muffins

clipped from www.bakespace.com
  • Cooking Time: 15
  • Servings: 12
  • Preparation Time: 10
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour

  • 1/2 cup ground flax seed

  • 4 ripe bananas, mashed

  • 1/2 cup Splenda

  • 1 tsp. vanilla

  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg

  • 1 stick butter, melted

  • 1 tsp. baking powder

  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda

  • 1/4 tsp. salt

  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts


    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with paper liners.

    2. Sift together flour, flax seed, cinnamon, nutmeg, powder, soda, and salt. Make a hole in the center.

    3. Add banana, butter, and vanilla to the well and fold ingredients into the center, blending until just combined.

    4. Fold in nuts.

    5. Fill each muffin cup with equal amounts of batter and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.



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    clipped from www.oddee.com



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    Wednesday, August 13, 2008

    Remove red-eye from your digital pictures with IrfanView

    clipped from help.cnet.com

    Filed in: IrfanView, Software
    IrfanView is a popular free image-editing program that lets you make a number of useful edits to your digital photographs.  Although it's nowhere near as powerful as Photoshop, it's still a handy tool for simple photo editing tasks.  One of its great feature is red-eye reduction.  If you have an image where your subject has glowing red eyes, here's how you can fix it:
    1) Launch IrfanView
    2) Under the File menu, choose Open and open the file you want to edit
    3) Move the scroll bars on the right and bottom of the IrfanView window to find the red eyes you wish to correct
    4) Draw a small box around the red eye with your cursor  
    5) Under the Image menu, choose "Red eye reduction" (or simply hit CONTROL-Y)
    6) Repeat steps 3-5 to correct any other red eyes in the image
    7) Under the File menu, choose "Save As...", give the file a new name, and then hit OK
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