Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Coffee The Old Fashioned Way

  I enjoy have coffee with my father in law and his friends in Philippines,Coffee The Old Fashioned Way. Brew the Perfect Baraco Batangas Coffee in your own home!
Kapeng Baraco, or Kapeng Batangas has become synonymous with Batangas, the province girding Taal Lake. In fact, Batangas was once on of the world's coffee capital, thanks to Baraco. Baraco's mouth feel is as "memorable as its strong body and arome." Today, you can enjoy this refined version of Baraco harvested by Batanguenos as their forefathers did. Enjoy the virility of flavor without sweeteners or tame with a bit of coarse brown sugar.
Enjoy the taste and smell of the perfect Kape Baraco Gourmet Coffee in your own home! Kape Barako, also spelled Baraco (English: Barako coffee) is a coffee variety grown in the Philippines, particularly in the provinces of Batangas and Cavite. It belongs to the species Coffea liberica. The term is also used to refer to all coffee coming from those provinces. Barako is the Filipino term for a tough man.
Kape Barako is prepared using a drip brewing device, French press, or by simply pouring hot water unto the grounds and filtering the mixture using a piece of cloth. Barako is best sweetened with honey or brown sugar. Barako can be used to make espresso and other espresso-based drinks.
Barako is not a common coffee variety, although it is abundant in Southeast Asia especially in the Philippines. It has the largest beans of all the coffee varieties.[citation needed] Its taste is said to be superior to Robusta, and most Filipino coffee drinkers prefer Barako to Arabica. The Arabica-Barako blend is a popular gourmet coffee. Barako is considered to be the best among Liberica species.

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Wow Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

I’ve been a computer user for over 20 years. I was 7 years of age when I first sit in front of “Radio Shack model 1 ” and then Later "Color Computer from Radio Shack" after that CPU, Ms Dos, OS/9,win 3.1, win 95, win 98, etc.. Until now, I had give Linux a go! (it was many years ago) but I couldn't get install on my hardware at the time. My good friend Curt work his butt off help me install it.... Then I used Ubuntu 6.0.4 and WOW!.. Now I am in love with the OS. Everything is perfect, I can customize most of the things visually or technically.. Ubuntu can never be compared in visualization with Compiz (in comparison with windows). This OS is really quick and provides you everything free.. You can watch your favorite movies and series (any codecs), internet surfing is very fast, this OS detected all of my hardware and I didn't have to install anything to get them worked, they are already installed. Installing software is very easy with Synaptic packet manager (or even so easy with “sudo apt-get install” commands).. To give it sum up, this new release of Linux really rocks, and its so hard to leave it and turn back to MS... I would not go back to Microsoft any way.... I am having joy learning Linux commands and deeper details of the OS. Its so hard to believe everything comes free with this OS. You can download any software written by anybody to meet your requirements. For example, I didnt have to install any software to open my microsoft office files such as doc, xls..in Linux. You have to pay quite good money to install MS Office.. Openoffice software came free with Linux. There are so much things to talk about the beauties of this operating system but its way too better to install and start using & learning it. The Microsoft users should know that, it takes some time to customize the things on your desktop, icons colors fonts, sizes etc.. But make it sure that after customizing the things on your desktop, you will see how cool alternatives and themes you can get.. Wow Ubuntu.. Ubuntu.. Ubuntu..


  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is Here!

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