Atlas Pasta Machine
If you love to cook and if you love pasta, you will definitely love having an Atlas pasta machine. Your pasta will be fresh every time and you will be surprised at the difference it will make in the taste.
A simple recipe includes flour, eggs and salt. You simply combine the three ingredients and work them with a fork until the mixture can no longer be stirred. At that point, you will need to work the flour with your hands. This is a simplified version and you will want to experiment with your own recipes. Of course, recipes (and pictures) come with every Atlas pasta machine so it will be quite easy to follow one of theirs as well.
Atlas is well known for manufacturing the best electric pasta machines that are available. They make both a manual (hand crank) version and an electric version. They come in several different colors so they will easily fit in with any kitchen décor. Before you purchase either machine, you will need to decide what features are the most important to you, if you prefer making pasta the old fashioned way and how much you want to spend. If time is an issue for you, you will want to purchase an electric Atlas pasta machine as it is capable of churning out a lot of pasta in a short amount of time with minimal effort on your part, and the machine will do the kneading for you.
However, if you enjoy the fun of kneading your own dough and turning the handle and watching the noodles churn out, then the manual Atlas pasta machine will work best for you. If you have children, they will enjoy watching and joining in the fun of making their own homemade pasta. If price is an issue, the manual machine will cost you approximately eighty dollars while the electric machine will cost you approximately one hundred ninety dollars.
An Atlas pasta machine is becoming a common appliance in many households as more and more people realize how much fun it is to make their own pasta – not to mention how much more fresh it tastes. Many professional chefs use the manual and the electric machines and they know a great cooking machine when they use one. A nice feature of the Atlas machines is the ability to change the thickness of the dough sheet. You can make round or flat noodles and you can also control the noodle size by rotating the dial for a total of nine different positions. These are sturdy machines that are made to last. Marcato makes the Atlas pasta machine and they have been in business for more than sixty year and every machine is made in Italy.
If you are in the market for a pasta maker, you really cannot go wrong with a Marcato Atlas pasta machine. The only problem you may find that you have with their pasta makers is that you and your family will want to have pasta for dinner every night of the week!
HP sues former CEO Mark Hurd, doesn’t want him working at Oracle
Hey, remember when HP fired former CEO Mark Hurd for fudging his expense reports in connection with some shady potential hanky-panky surrounding a former marketing contractor? And then gave him a $40-50m severance package that included $12m in straight cash to keep his mouth shut and not sue anyone? And then Oracle CEO Larry Ellison called HP's board "idiots" for firing Hurd? Well, over the weekend Larry put his money where his mouth is and hired ol' Mark as Oracle's new president, and that seems to have been the last straw for HP -- the company just announced that it's suing Mark Hurd for breach of contract and "threatened misappropriation of trade secrets." HP says that Hurd was deeply involved in creating HP's business plans for the next two years, including specific plans to compete with Oracle in the enterprise market, and that there's no way Hurd can do his job at Oracle without revealing trade secrets and other confidential information he agreed to keep under wraps when he signed his employment contract with HP. What's more, he apparently reaffirmed those commitments when he signed his severance package, so that's a double whammy -- and although California is usually pretty hostile to noncompete agreements, HP's trying to say Hurd violated one of those, too. HP's asked the court to prevent Hurd from working for Oracle or any other competitors at all, so we're guessing this one's going to be a fight -- we'll let you know if Larry Ellison says something bonkers again anything good happens.
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Google Wave Offered As ‘Wave in a Box’
Google Wave tried to be the next big thing and didn't quite make it, but that doesn't mean that all that effort is going down the drain when Google decided to shut it down. Google has promised to keep Wave alive at least until the end of the year, and now the search engine giant has confirmed that it will release most of the Wave code, dubbed "Wave in a Box". The code will allow developers to continue the job where Wave left off, and we're really looking forward to seeing what developers will be able to come up with. Who knows, maybe some developer will come up with a cool social networking application that will seriously challenge Facebook?
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Trends – what’s cooking at IFA 2010?
The food in Berlin is unlikely to turn any heads. The local speciality is sausage with curry sauce – the ubiquitous currywurst. If you’re still peckish later, you can fill up on a pretzel the size of a rug beater. It gets worse – the German edition of Masterchef, advertised on billboards around town, is called Meisterkoch. But in the halls of IFA, Europe’s biggest tech fair, new gadgetry is being cooked up into a much more appetizing proposition.
The most overpowering smell is emanating from the 3D kitchen. For all of our will-it-won’t-it-work talk, you’d be mad not to come away from IFA with a sense that perhaps we’ve been a bit hard on poor old 3D. Perhaps three days of wearing 3D specs has skewed our vision a bit, but the amount of money, time and effort being poured into a new future of video entertainment is impossible to ignore. 
3D technology is available. It works. And now there is another hill to climb – making 3D vids to pipe to the mass of 3DTVs being produced. Sky is launching its 3D channel in October and the preview offerings are quite impressive. We scoffed at 3D golf, but having seen the undulating curves of the green first-hand in 3D, I’m a bit of a convert. And I don’t even like watching golf. Boxing also looks great, darts (surprisingly) less so. More or less everyone has seen animation and CGI rendered in 3D, and won’t be surprised to hear that it still looks amazing. And wildlife footage is astonishing in its depth and detail, even if the sight of swarms of insects knitting around each other in the nest isn’t for the squeamish.
Does 3DTV have a future? If you ask IFA, the answer’s a resounding ‘yes’. I pressed a few companies on when they’d give up on 3D if punters didn’t start buying third-dimensional tellies in the next year or two. Their answer: we won’t. They are committed to evolving 3DTV, and evangelical about its potential. 3D is no seasonal menu item – it’s here to stay.
Elsewhere, we’ve seen plenty of tablets – from rushed Chinese iPad clones to Samsung’s dinky 7in Galaxy Tab. The latter was the darling of the show, surrounded continuously by purring gadgeteers stroking it’s smooth white plastic back and prodding at its capacative screen. The size really works, too – is it possible that in future we’ll have a series of differently-sized tablets for different occasions? A phone (3.5in), a Dell Streak (5in), a Samsung Galaxy S (7in), an iPad (9.7in), a laptop (13in), a desktop replacement laptop (17in) and so on. I can see it happening, actually. You'll choose which gadgets to take out in the same way you decide what shirt to wear.
So that’s the meat and potatoes of IFA trends. On to the side dish: internet connected, app-driven everything. To be honest, you’d have to be a bit of a monkey not to have seen this coming, but apps are going to be everywhere. I remain to be convinced that this will be a good thing, but we should at least get some improved user interfaces. A few companies are committing (quite sensibly) to web apps, rather than attempting the tricky business of luring app developers away from Apple’s high ground (Samsung is offering cash to devs defecting to its camp, not a strategy that’s likely to engender loyalty or passion, you’d think). Anyway, the app ball is rolling and won’t stop until it hits a wall or gathers enough pace to fly.
For dessert, we have content. It’s a horrible word, used to make the collective work of writers, actors, musicians, designers and producers sound as clinically unartistic as possible. Why? Because the people who make your television, tablet, phone and console want also to be in charge of selling you games, music, films, TV shows and books. Hundreds of deals are being announced at IFA, and we fear many more are being spun, too. It could go either way – all things to all people, or a fractured marketplace that will only be healed by an intergalactic legal battle fought by future generations. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.
And on that note, we’re off for a currywurst. In our helicopter. Auf wiedersehen!
[thanks to TomTom for letting us borrow their helicopter]
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