Cheerwine-Filled Krispy Kremes Are Back, Tennessee Can Bite In Too

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Cheerwine-Filled Krispy Kremes Are Back, Tennessee Can Bite In Too

via The Consumerist by Ben Popken on 6/30/11

The lovechild of a bottle of Cheerwine soda and a Krispy Kreme doughnut is back for seconds. It's the Cheerwine-filled Krispy Kreme! The doughnut maker has brought back these two classic Carolina flavors that were such a hit last year for a one-monthly only run starting in July. And this year they've expanded the deploy zone to also include Tennessee.

Cheerwine is a regional soda sold in the Carolina area that is very bubbly has a distinctive sweet cherry flavor. They also have a cult following. I once knew again who added a 100-mile detour to his trip just so he could pick up a case.

Part of the reason the two companies got together was because they're both based in Carolina and have been around since the early 20th century. They wined and dined each other on Rock Candy Mountain and decided they were perfect for each other.

The donuts will be sold by the half-dozen at regular Krispy-Kreme dispensaries, as well as BI-LO, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Ingles Markets, Kroger, Lowes Foods, Piggly Wiggly, Publix and Walmart stores.

"The Cheerwine Kreme Filled Doughnut is a true celebration of two southern heritage icons doing something quite magical for loyal fans in the south. It is a perfect summer treat, and with the limited run of production and the introduction of the doughnut into Tennessee, we think excitement is going to be through the roof," said Tom Barbitta, Vice President of Marketing for Cheerwine. "If last year is any indication, we have to tell people to make sure to get them while they can. There's nothing worse than watching someone else walk away with the last Cheerwine Kreme Filled Doughnut."

Aw, that sounds so sad!

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Stretch One Chicken Over 22 Healthy Meals for Less than $50 [Food]

 

 

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Stretch One Chicken Over 22 Healthy Meals for Less than $50 [Food]

via Lifehacker by Matthew Rogers on 6/20/11

A whole chicken doesn't have to last one meal, only to become a day's worth of leftovers before making its way to the trash bin. Kerry Taylor managed to stretch one enormous chicken into 22 meals over a five-day period, and it's wasn't as insane (or meatless) as you might think.

To kick the whole thing off, she started by baking a 6.28lb chicken, whole. Doing this not only guarantees the first day's food, but it also leaves enough leftover materials (like the bones) to make a large pot of chicken stock. That stock is what allowed her to stretch the bird past the three-day mark, because soup and stew are both easy and filling.

Plenty of vegetables and herbs mean any two days' soup or stew can be completely different in taste, despite coming from the same chicken stock. There's also types of noodles, beans, or pasta to consider, making the combinations pretty easy to come by. Chicken White Chili may not be too common a sight in most kitchens, but it doesn't exactly sound bad, either.

A $20 chicken seems like a big purchase when you see it at the store, but if it can stretch out to an entire week's worth of meals with a minimal investment in side items, it starts to look pretty cheap. Getting the oven-use for the week done at the outset is also a great thing for Summer, which is an added bonus. Photo by Steven Depolo.

1 Organic Chicken, 22 Healthy Meals, $49 Bucks | Squawkfox

 

 

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Whole Grain Pasta May Not Hold Many Real Health Benefits [Health]

 

 

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Whole Grain Pasta May Not Hold Many Real Health Benefits [Health]

via Lifehacker by Alan Henry on 6/20/11

Whole grains are healthy for you, but only when they're intact in your meal. Dr. Darya Pino of Summer Tomato says that with pasta, the more the grain has been processed, the fewer health benefits you get, even if it's marketed as "whole grain."

For example, whole grain rice is definitely better for you than white rice, but because pasta is processed when made, the health benefits from so-called "whole grain" pasta may actually be very small, especially in comparison to non-processed grains.

In essence, if you're spending more on whole grain pasta because you think you're getting serious health benefits, don't waste your money. Instead, focus on portion control and how much pasta you eat. If you're that concerned about healthy pasta dishes, just add more vegetables to the meal. Photo by Dottie Mae.

Should I Buy Whole Grain Pasta? | Summer Tomato

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Give Berries a Hot Water Bath to Prevent Mold Growth [Food Hacks]

 

 

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Give Berries a Hot Water Bath to Prevent Mold Growth [Food Hacks]

via Lifehacker by Alan Henry on 6/18/11

It can be disappointing to come home with a fresh batch of berries, stash it in the fridge, and return to it the next day or so to find it moldy and unsalvageable. Thankfully, with a quick bath in some good hot water, your berries can live to see another day.

It may sound difficult to believe, but a 30-second dip in hot water – not boiling, but close to it – can keep your berries from molding without cooking the insides. An old tip from New York Times food writer Harold McGee, giving your berries a quick dunk in water between 120 and 140 degrees will keep them from molding for a few extra days.

Once you've let your berries warm up a bit, take them out, unpack them, and spread them out on paper towels so they don't press against each other. Then, keeping them as spread out as you can on a cookie sheet or pie pan, put them in the fridge until you're ready to use them. Of course, nothing beats fresh, but if you do need to pick up berries on Thursday and bake a pie on Saturday, this might help. How do you keep your fresh produce fresh in the fridge? Share your tips in the comments. Photo by Kevin Lawver.

Prolonging the Life of Berries | The New York Times

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Make a No-Kill Mousetrap with a Jar and a Nickel [DIY]

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Make a No-Kill Mousetrap with a Jar and a Nickel [DIY]

via Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon on 6/14/11

We've shown you one no-kill mousetrap before, but it required strategic placement and a large drop to the garbage can below. It turns out, with just a jar and a nickel, you can catch a mouse from just about anywhere.

The trap looks like something right out of a cartoon, but it supposedly works quite well. Grab your jar (or a small glass, whatever you have handy) and a nickel , and prop the jar up on the nickel's edge. Other coins may work, depending on the size of the mouse of course, but a nickel seems to be the most highly recommended (plus, you probably have a billion of them lying around anyway—who uses those things?). Stick some peanut butter in the top of the jar, and wait. The mouse will come running for the peanut butter and the glass will fall on top of him, leaving you free to take him and set him free wherever you so desire. Hit the link to see more.

Catch a Mouse With a Jar and a Nickel | Instructables

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ESET Mobile Security for Android Puts Antivirus, Antispam, Anti-Theft, and S...

 

 

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ESET Mobile Security for Android Puts Antivirus, Antispam, Anti-Theft, and System Monitoring All in One Sleek App [App Of The Day]

via Lifehacker by Matthew Rogers on 6/9/11

Android: ESET Mobile Security is a full suite of security and privacy tools rolled into one app. Full-phone antivirus and malware scanning, call/SMS/MMS blacklisting, and a host of anti-theft features are all accessible from the main screen. As if that weren't enough, the app also has built-in system monitoring functions to show you every running process along with its resource usage. The app's in beta at the moment, but it runs as smooth as it looks—and it's free.

ESET's antivirus scanning is one of the most trusted in the industry, and the mobile scanner hasn't been gimped like you'd expect in a mobile app, either. Full-system scans are available at any time, while on-access scanning runs in the background to check files as they're downloaded. Basic scanning is enabled by default, but available options include SD card scanning for every file that appears there, as well as advanced heuristics (which would help catch undocumented threats, but use slightly more processing power when in use). Settings also include particular file extensions to check, along with whether or not to check archive packages like .zip files. Detailed logs and a standard quarantine are used for all scans.

Antispam features apply to phone calls, text messages (SMS), and multimedia messages (MMS). They allow for specific blacklisting of phone numbers—with options for both incoming and outgoing blocks. Users can also opt to simply block all unknown numbers—or more interestingly, all known numbers. If either blanket rule is in effect, individual numbers can be whitelisted with rules of their own.

Antivirus and antispam are both extremely important features, and they're done very well in ESET Mobile Security, but the section of the app that's probably the most interesting to Android users has got to be its anti-theft capabilities. The first time you load the app, it displays a large alert to let you know that it hasn't been secured yet. After following easy and well-explained cues, a user should have the app added as a device administrator, defined the currently loaded SIM card as "trusted," defined contact numbers to which alerts should be sent if the phone gets stolen, set a master password for the app, and finally, set the app to protect itself against uninstall attempts.

Afterwards, should the phone be lost or stolen, the app can be contacted via SMS messages and commanded to give GPS coordinates, lock the screen with a password, or even to begin wiping all data from the phone (including the SD card). If an untrusted SIM card is ever put in the phone, the app will automatically send out alert texts to the numbers set as alert contacts, with a pre-defined message that the user can set.

Then there's the Security Audit, which checks everything and presents a checklist to let the user know how locked down the phone is. It's also got a full-fledged task manager that displays currently running processes, services, and tasks on the system, along with the option to kill non-system apps.

Last but not least, the app's built-in help documents are outstanding. They're written simply and to the point, with a separate help button in every section of the app. Along with the app's well-defined interface, they make the entire thing a pleasure to use, and that's saying a lot for a security app.

ESET Mobile Security | Android Market

 

 

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How to Stop Facebook from Using Facial Recognition on You [Video]

 

 

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How to Stop Facebook from Using Facial Recognition on You [Video]

via Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon on 6/7/11

Facebook has slowly introduced a new facial recognition feature that finds pictures with your face and suggests to your friends that they tag you in it. If you'd rather this feature be turned off, here's how to disable it.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather Facebook not go around telling everyone to tag me in their pictures, especially if they're of the less flattering variety. While it's pretty annoying that Facebook turned this on without telling us, it's pretty easy to turn off:

1. Head your Privacy Settings and click on Customize Settings.
2. Scroll down to the "Suggest Photos of Me to Friends" setting and hit "Edit Settings".
3. In the drop-down on the right, hit "Disable".

That's it. From now on, your friends will have to manually tag you instead of Facebook automatically suggesting they do it. Check out the video above to see how to do it.

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Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store

 

 

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Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store

via Slashdot by timothy on 6/5/11

theodp writes "Working calmly in broad daylight and filming their efforts for YouTube posterity, a fake construction crew attached a large Microsoft Windows logo to the black facade of a soon-to-open Hamburg Apple Store. Neat hack in the MIT vein, but next time the crew might want to take along a pic of the Windows logo — with the adrenaline flowing, some of the colors got rearranged and were hung upside down."

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Original Ronald McDonald Was Really Creepy

i feel really, really, really, really sorry for willard scott after watching those videos.

 

 

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Original Ronald McDonald Was Really Creepy

via The Consumerist by Ben Popken on 6/2/11

If today's Ronald McDonald looked more like his original incarnation, the McDonald's CEO might have a tougher time defending against those asking for the burger clown's resignation. Have you seen the first Ronald? Played by Willard Scott, he's a clown with a soda cup for a nose and a tray of food as a hat. He also has a food tray attached to his belt which will magically produce three hamburgers in a row on demand. You can see why this Ronald was streamlined into the version we know today. Because he looks like a serial killer.

1963: the introduction of Ronald. Note the meta device of pulling out from the McDonald ad to reveal Ronald is actually watching that ad on a TV set.

Here's one where Ronald skates along and a suspicious child doesn't believe he's who he says he is, or that he should be talking to the clown because his mother told him not to talk to strangers. Ronald allays his concerns by producing three hamburgers in a row out of thin air, which, if you include the one that fell off the clown's head at the beginning, means the kid is eating four hamburgers. Then after that they both go to McDonald's, because Ronald doesn't encourage childhood obesity at all.

In this last ad, released in 1971, Ronald is still played by Willard Scott and has by this time had his food tray hat replaced by a red wig and he has also lost his magic hamburger-producing tray. This ad is for how you can by little Ronald dolls for only a $1.00 and the dolls hang around the set in an off-kilter mobile. Ronald laughs about how much they look like him. Between the strange closeups, beige backdrop, and static staging, it's quite disturbing. If you'll excuse me, I have a sudden urge to go feed a kitten to an ATM for some reason.

 

 

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Craftsman 106-Piece Mechanics Tool Set $46 + Free Store Pickup

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Craftsman 106-Piece Mechanics Tool Set $46 + Free Store Pickup

via SlickDeals.net on 6/1/11

 

 

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