Ayam Goreng Kecap Wijen

Resep Ayam Goreng Kecap Wijen - Sudah mencoba resep iga goreng? bagaimana hasilnya istimewa bukan? resep masakan kali ini akan membahasa tentang resep ayam goreng kecap wijen dan cara membuatnya. Yuk mariiii...

Resep Bahan Ayam Goreng Kecap Wijen :

1 ekor ayam, dipotong 16 bagian

2 sendok teh kecap manis 

2 sendok teh garam

1/2 sendok makan air jeruk nipis

Minyak untuk menggoreng

Bahan Tumisan :

1 buah bawang bombay, diiris

3 siung bawang putih, dicincang kasar

3 sendok makan kecap manis 

2 sendok teh minyak wijen 

1 1/2 sendok teh garam

1/2 sendok teh merica bubuk

1/2 sendok teh gula pasir

150 ml air

5 tangkai kucai, dipotong 2 cm

1 sendok makan wijen disangrai untuk taburan

2 sendok makan minyak untuk menumis

Cara membuat ayam goreng kecap wijen :

1. Lumuri ayam dengan kecap manis, garam, dan air jeruk nipis. Diamkan 15 menit. Goreng sampai berkulit.
2. Panaskan minyak. Tumis bawang bombay dan bawang putih sampai harum.
3. Masukkan ayam. Aduk rata. Tambahkan kecap manis, minyak wijen, garam, merica bubuk, dan gula pasir. Aduk rata.
4. Tuangkan air. Masak sampai matang dan meresap. Masukkan kucai. Aduk rata. Sajikan dengan taburan wijen sangrai.

Untuk 7 Orang

Demikianlah resep dan cara membuat ayam goreng kecap wijen. Selamat mencoba dan semoga informasi ini dapat berguna bagi anda semua yang ingin melengkapi koleksi resep masakannya. Happy Cooking :))

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Iga Goreng Kuah Barbeque

Resep Iga Goreng Kuah Barbeque - Sudah mencoba resep bawal bakar bumbu rica? bagaimana rasanya enak bukan? Nah pada kesempatan kali ini resep masakan akan membahas bagaimana cara membuat resep iga goreng kuah barbeque yang lezat dan Yummie...

Bahan Resep Iga Goreng Kuah Barbeque :

500 gram iga sapi, dipotong-potong

850 ml air

5 sendok makan kecap manis ABC Black Gold

3 lembar daun salam

6 lembar daun jeruk, dibuang tulang daunnya

1/2 sendok makan garam

1/4 sendok teh merica bubuk

1/2 sendok teh gula pasir

2 sendok makan minyak untuk menumis

Minyak untuk menggoreng

Bumbu Halus Iga Goreng Kuah Barbeque :

5 butir bawang merah

2 siung bawang putih

5 butir kemiri sangrai

3 buah cabai merah

1 sendok teh ketumbar sangrai

Bahan Kuah :

500 ml kaldu daging

2 tangkai serai, dimemarkan

5 lembar daun jeruk, dibuang tulang daunnya 

1 buah tomat, dipotong-potong

3 sendok makan kecap manis ABC Black Gold

1/2 sendok makan garam

1/4 sendok teh merica bubuk

1/2 sendok teh pala bubuk

Bumbu Halus :

5 butir bawang merah

3 siung bawang putih

1 cm kunyit, dibakar

Cara membuat iga goreng kuah barbeque :

1. Rebus iga di dalam air bersama bumbu halus, kecap manis ABC Black Gold, daun salam, daun jeruk, garam, merica bubuk, dan gula pasir sampai empuk. Angkat. Goreng dalam minyak panas sampai kecokelatan. Sisihkan.
2. Kuah, tumis bumbu halus, serai dan daun jeruk sampai harum. Masukkan tomat. Aduk sampai layu.
3. Tuangkan kaldu. Tambahkan kecap manis ABC Black Gold, garam, merica bubuk, dan pala bubuk. Aduk rata. Masak sampai mendidih dan matang.
4. Sajikan iga goreng bersama kuahnya.

Untuk 3 Orang 

Selamat mencoba resep iga goreng kuah barbeque yang lezat. semoga informasi ini dapat memberikan manfaat bagi anda yang ingin mencoba membuat resep masakan iga yang istimewa. Happy Cooking :))

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Fiat Premio (1985-1995)

Lembra da traseira curta e alta que virou moda entre os sedãs dos anos 1990? Um de seus criadores foi esta variação do Uno. A cabine espaçosa agora aliada ao porta-malas enorme começaram uma fama de modelo superior que só fez crescer com a estreia do computador de bordo no Brasil. A Fiat ousaria ainda mais lançando a versão de topo CSL só com quatro portas: era um pacote tão bom que ajudou o brasileiro a vencer o preconceito com elas. Ele também agradou muito na Itália, e terminou quebrando recordes na Argentina.

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Chevrolet Captiva 2013

The mid-size crossover produced in Mexico has received last-minute minor updates in order to maintain its good market participation for some years. There are new 17” alloy wheels and both bumpers were slightly redesigned to became more imponent, although nothing of that changes the fact this seven-year-old project will need a new generation soon. Internally, the seats and the door panels received new coatings, and the upper rearview mirror received a small screen dedicated to the reverse-gear camera images.

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Volkswagen Fox 1.0 2013

Mais um veículo brasileiro se antecipa à obrigatoriedade que valerá em 2014. Dessa vez é o segundo degrau da linha de compactos da marca alemã que incorpora airbag duplo e freios ABS como itens de série em todas as versões que trazem o motor 1.0 flex, que por sua vez gera potência e torque de 77 cv e 10,6 kgfm. Com isso o Fox passa a sair de fábrica trazendo estes equipamentos em toda a sua gama, mas naturalmente isso trouxe um acréscimo à lista de preços básicos: as versões 1.0 ficaram R$ 1.350 mais caras.

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Fiat Palio e Uno Interlagos

Quem disse que a última semana do ano estaria livre de novidades? Quando todos achavam que o ciclo da Fiat para 2012 foi concluído com a série especial do Linea, os entusiastas da marca recebem agora outra grata surpresa. A dupla de hatchbacks homenageia o famoso circuito paulista com a própria edição limitada, que chega ao mercado com uma excelente relação custo/benefício envolta numa embalagem cujo foco é a esportividade. Neste artigo você poderá conferir mais detalhes da oferta que cada modelo faz.

Como já se comentou no texto do próprio Linea Sublime, investir em mudanças profundas demais não é válido porque a intenção destes modelos não é apresentar toda uma nova versão, mas sim um pacote diferenciado com base em uma das que já se vendem normalmente. No caso dos hatchbacks deste artigo, o ponto de partida não poderia deixar de ser a versão Sporting. O primeiro destaque é o exclusivo amarelo Interlagos, que vem como única opção para a série (não confundir com a cor das versões Sporting comuns, o amarelo Indianápolis). O esquema de cores se faz combinando-o com o preto brilhante de detalhes como as capas dos retrovisores e o spoiler traseiro, além das rodas de liga leve com pintura exclusiva. Já o interior traz costuras amarelas em bancos e volante. Outra excelente notícia é que o pacote de itens é completo para ambos, sem opcionais. Isso significa ar-condicionado, conexão Bluetooth, pedaleiras esportivas, vidros e travas elétricos, sistema de som multimídia e todo o pacote visual interno e externo para o Uno por R$ 36.830. Já o Palio agrega comandos satélite do som, retrovisores elétricos e o teto solar Sky Window, ficando em R$ 43.860. Quanto aos motores, o primeiro continua apenas com o 1.4 Fire Evo e o segundo apenas com o 1.6 16v e.TorQ.

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Ford Fiesta Van

How about transporting small cargo around the city in all the Kinetic style? United Kingdom has received the facelifted version of Fiesta Van, always with three doors. The closed rear windows hide up to 35.3 cubic feet of cargo space, which takes up to 1120 pounds. With gasoline there will be a 1.2L Duratec, while with diesel if offers the Duratorq 1.5L and 1.6L – the last one can bring the ECOnetic items, including start/stop system, to achieve the consumption rate of 3,33 l/100 km. This car will hit the streets next month.

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Volkswagen Golf R Cabrio

Sometimes, the “recipe” for creating a successful vehicle doesn’t demand millions of dollars invested in projecting new models from scratch. Complete renewals are always necessary after a certain time, but there are moments when it’s possible to make interesting additions to the showroom using mostly creativity and common sense. And since everyone likes to have good results and loves to have them without spending much money, that’s why VW decided to satisfy a popular request, now releasing this impressive convertible.

It’s interesting to observe that although Golf is a very traditional car, the families it generates on each generation never are. The sedan, for example, has followed it since the beginning but always with exclusive designs and different timing. The station wagon came only at the third phase and the fifth even had the Plus minivan variation, but the less common history surely is the convertible’s: adapting a conventional car to become roofless demands structural reinforcements and the entire removable roof system, which always raises the car’s cost. Therefore. in order to never have this cabrio too expensive, VW has used some special strategies. The second generation simply skipped this version, receving once again at the third. The fourth, in turn, was a very crafty facelift to give the new car’s front and rear styling to the older convertible. The fifth generation skipped the convertible again, and the sixth one receives it at the exact time when the seventh arrives. This doesn’t look like bad timing, though: since the new car uses an entirely different project, it seems like VW is trying to compensate the convertible’s higher costs by producing it on an already proven base. Anyway, the fact is this convertible only begins to describe a very nice example of what this article begins to comment.

In other words, besides the opportunity to keep selling Golf’s old platform for some time, since VW was releasing this very charismatic variation, why don’t take more advantage of it? Now it’s time to adapt the R version for the roofless version. There are the same elements of the hatchback, such as exclusive bumpers with more aggressive intakes and double exhaust tips, rear spoiler, 18” exclusive wheels (with an optional 19” set), lower suspension and the typical blue tone of the R line. The black fabric roof can be activated while driving at up to eighteen mph and takes eleven seconds to open or close. This car’s interior won’t be very different from what has been seen at this Golf’s phase, but once again the equipment list will be complete, including items such as bi-xenon headlights with daytime LEDs, performance seats and black-painted calipers, but the most awaited powertrain specifications to know definitely weren’t those: this car will bring once again the 2.0L TSi. There are 261 hp of power and 258 lb-ft of torque, paired to DSG transmission in order to achieve 6s4 from 0 to 60 mph and the electronically-limited 155-mph top speed. These numbers are so good that give this car the title of fastest VW convertible ever produced… along with a 8.26-l/100 km consumption, and the reminder that all of this was achieved with the exact opposite of projecting from scratch.

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Qoros GQ3

Regardless of quality matters, wouldn’t be weird to see a minivan projected by Ferrari? A big pick-up truck designed by Citroën? Or a compact sedan made by Land Rover? Although most automakers now place their bets at participating in more categories, no one could ever prosper in all of them because each one has built its name around a particular market share. The Chinese cars could only became famous outside their homeland due to cheaper prices, but now there’s one brand trying to revert this situation.

This blog has already mentioned the Chinese automakers’ current attempt to follow the Japanese and Korean’s path of expanding their sales into the Western countries, using JAC Heyue A30’s article. The basic idea consists not only of taking cars which are really capable of pleasing these customers but also of bringing something extra, an exclusive appeal that could make people abandon the traditional brands in order to give those Chinese newcomers a try. They’ve already started to sell specially in America and Europe, but their vehicles always use the low-cost appeal. They came in several categories, but most of them are suitable only for the customers whose only concern is precisely the cheaper price, even though it’s tied up to questionable quality standards. However, these brands must’ve started to dislike this deal because, as a matter of fact, not every brand would like to see their products indirectly tagged as worse than their competitors. Today it would be very hard to only “erase” this reputation among the Western customers, so the Chinese decided to follow the opposite path: in order to mingle better and expand its sales, Chery is creating a luxury division. Yes, exactly like Honda did with Acura, Nissan with Infiniti and Toyota with Lexus around thirty years ago. And also as all of them there’s a Latin-like name: Qoros.

Mentioning those examples doesn’t leave much more to explain. Like GQ3, Qoros’ cars will have fancier designs with much bigger Western inspiration, which means aggressive designs combined to organic shapes, without deeper creases like the Japanese or other odd shapes such as what QQ uses. GQ3 is one of the first three vehicles planned to hit the streets in the next few years and it really represents an evolution from what is seen at Chery’s cars, but it isn’t hard to notice that Qoros still has where to evolve: details such as the big tail lights and the even bigger chrome line above the front grille really could’ve received a more elegant design. But the German-Chinese design reveals a very big interior, with plenty of space for five occupants and lots of luxury: the two-colored coating uses wooden details to give a higher-quality impression, but also hides that GQ3 was projected to achieve the perfect grade at the EuroNCAP tests. Not to mention the trim levels will be very high. Qoros plans to start selling GQ3 in China late 2013, with the European sales beginning a few months later. Besides this sedan, they will also offer a station wagon and a crossover. There are no technical specifications for GQ3 so far.

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Teach Google-search about your blog with the Data Validator

This quick-tip is about the Webmaster Tools Tool Data Validator tool - which is an easier way to "teach" Google about the way things are described on your blog or website.

Recently, Google announced a new feature in Webmaster Tools called the Data Validator.

This is like a simpler way for website-owners (which is what bloggers really are) to tell Blogger about structured information that they put onto their sites - by point-and-clicking at the information on screen, rather than by learning the intricacies of Rich Snippets and the snippet testing tool.

What they've released so far is just an English-language tool for events - "such as concerts, sporting events, exhibitions, shows, and festivals".

To use it you need to

visit Webmaster Tools, select your site, click the "Optimization" link in the left sidebar, and click "Data Highlighter".

And obviously you need to have verified the blog in Webmaster Tools before you start, and to do the "learning" with the same account.   NB   Some blogs will be automatically verified, but some won't:  if yours isn't, then the best way to do this is to choose Alternate Methods and choose HTML Tag - then add the meta-tag to your blog.

The bottom line is that for this to work, you need to put the information into your blog the same way every time (aka in a "consistent format"). What will be interesting to see is exactly how "consistent" it needs to be - I suspect that the tool will probably get smarter over time.

I haven't had a chance to try it yest,  /But I am using a Blogger to manage the website for a small choir which has a concert in January.   So I think I'll start by structuring the announcement of the last concert in June 2012, and then see how well it applies the learning to the next one.

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BMW Z4 2013

At this moment of December, most automakers have already finished their releases cycle for the year, in order to start preparing for the next one’s. However, since there’s the Detroit event already next month, it won’t take long for all that buzz start again. That must be why BMW decided to anticipate one more release to 2012. Z4 has changed so little that it couldn’t even be called a facelift. It’s better to define it as very slight improvements to a roadster which actually is many years far from needing any deeper changes.

Z4’s current generation has arrived in 2009, but it really doesn’t look old. Maybe also because BMW is still using the same design identity, but the fact is this roadster was very well designed. There was a big evolution from the previous generation, because the same controversial straight lines and very strong creases received a whole new interpretation. The car became more opulent without losing the initial concept. The volumes became more aggressive, with a change of size and proportions which did nothing but increase the pure, crude sportiness impression this line has transmitted for more than thirty years, since Z1. Since Z4 is one of the few BMW who aren’t part of an entire family (another one is 7-Series, for example), the designers had s freedom while working on it and really used it – it’s easy to observe that looking at this roadster reminds of all the BMWs in general, but not too much of any particular one. Besides that, since this generation is still young, there’s no need of performing big updates: the car received new LEDs daytime lights and new wheels designs, in 17” or 18”. In other words, it’s probable that only the biggest fans will manage to recognize a 2013 Z4 while in movement, but it still isn’t a reason to complaint: it would be so hard and expensive to perform partial changes to this design without losing the balance that it’s really better to only touch it when it’s time to give a whole new generation.

Therefore, the Germans focused at improving the interior. Z4 received a new coating that joins Alcantara to the usual leather for the seats, along with some piano-black-painted details. It still brings very good trim levels, including the big touchscreen which controls the iDrive infotainment system. There are three new external colors, but only the option showed at these pictures brings the Hyper Orange pack: this is the responsible for the internal details using this same color, matched with white and piano-black ones to create a very creative cabin; Audi, for instance, never lets the black and aluminum-silver go away from its cars. These pictures’ roadster also received a whole new trim level with an also new engine: sDrive18i comes for the entry level with a 2.0L turbo, whose 150 hp can be paired with manual six-speed transmission or automatic eight-speed, in order to go from 0 to 60 mph in 7s9 and to the top speed of 137 mph. This car will hit the North-American streets in next March.

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Resep Bawal Bakar Bumbu Rica | Resep Masakan Tahun Baru

Resep Masakan Tahun Baru - Resep Bawal Bakar Bumbu Rica - Sudah mencoba resep Ricotta Cheese Cookies yang kami bahas pada postingan sebelumnya? Nah berikut kami sajikan resep masakan tahun baru resep bawal bakar bumbu rica yang patut anda coba berikan bagi keluarga spesial tepat di moment sepsial pula.

Bahan bawal bumbu rica :

600 gram ikan bawal segar
1 sendok teh garam
1 sendok teh cuka

Bumbu halus masakan bawal ikan bawal bumbu rica :

3 buah cabai merah
5 butir bawang merah
3 siung bawang putih
2 cm jahe
1 sendok teh garam
3 sendok makan minyak goreng

Cara membuat masakan bawal bakar bumbu rica :

Rendam ikan dalam garam dan cuka selama 15 menit. Sementara itu tumis bumbu halus hingga matang.
Bakar ikan sambil dioles bumbu sampai matang.

Untuk 2 Porsi

Tips resep masakan ikan bawal bakar bumbu rica :

- Ikan bakar yang lezat sangat tergantung pada kualitas ikan. Ikan yang segar bisa dilihat dari warna insang yang kemerahan, daging yang kenyal, dan bau ikan yang segar. Coba tekan ikan saat memilihnya di pasar. Bila bekas tekanan Anda tetap turun, tidak kembali naik, sebaiknya ikan tidak dipilih.
- Cara membersihkan ikan juga turut menentukan rasa. Hati-hati saat mengeluarkan isi perutnya, jangan sampai ada bagian hitam yang tertinggal hingga membuat pahit ikan. Cuci bersih sampai warna hitam pada bagian dalam ikan betul-betul hilang.
- Setelah ikan bersih, Anda dapat menghilangkan baunya dengan menambahkan air jeruk nipis atau cuka dan membumbuinya dengan garam. Sebelum dibakar, ikan n dapat langsung dilumuri bumbu. Biarkan dalam lemari pendingin sampai bumbu meresap betul supaya ikan bakar Anda kaya rasa. Tetapi membuat ikan bakar juga bisa dengan cara lain. Yakni ikan direbus dalam air atau santan yang sudah dicampur bumbu. Tentu ikan yang cocok dibakar dengan cara ini hanya ikan yang berdaging tebal dan agak keras supaya tidak mudah hancur. Tongkol atau tenggiri, misalnya. 

- Selamat membuat ikan bakar. Jangan lupa siapkan lalapnya untuk membuat ikan semakin lezat.

Demikianlah resep masakan ikan bawal bakar bumbu rica sebagai resep masasakan tahun baru berikut cara membuatnya. Semoga dapat membantu anda yang ingin melengkapi koleksi resep masakan nusantara nan istimewa. Happy Cooking :))

     

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Resep Kue Ricotta Cheese Cookies Untuk Natal dan Tahun Baru

Resep Kue Natal dan Tahun Baru Ricotta Cheese Cookies - Serta bagaimana cara membuat Ricotta Cheese Cookies. Natal dan tahun baru merupakan moment istimewa bagi sebagian masyarakat indonesia maupun dunia. Di moment istimewa tentunya kita juga mesti menyiapkan menu resep masakan istimewa pula bagi kerabat dan keluarga tercinta. Disamping resep masakan istimewa di hari natal dan tahun baru, wajib juga kita siapkan resep kue natal dan tahun baru sebagai pelengkap hidangan maupun sebagai cemilan di hari spesial. Nah pada kesempatan kali ini kita akan membahas tentang resep kue natal dan tahun baru Ricotta Cheese Cookies berikuta bagaimana cara membuat kue Ricotta Cheese Cookies spesial untuk keluarga. Coba juga Resep Kue Kering Coklat.

Resep Kue Ricotta Cheese Cookies

Bahan Kue Ricotta Cheese Cookies :

115 g mentega / margarin
115 gula pasir halus
100 g krju Ricotta
1 sdt essens vanili
1/4 sdt garam
1/2 sdt soda kue
280 gram tepung terigu

Bahan Glasuur Resep Ricotta Cheese Cookies:
150 g gula bubuk
1 putih telur
1 sdm air jeruk lemon
Gula taburan warna hijau dan merah

Cara membuat resep kue Ricotta Cheese Cookies :

Panaskan oven hingga suhu 160 derajat Celcius. Olesi loyang datar denan sedikit margarin. Sisihkan.
Kocok mentega dan gula pasir hingga lembut. Masukkan keju, essens vanila, garam, soda kue, dan teung terigu. Aduk rata. Masukkan adonan dalam spuit. Semprotkan adonan bentuk cincin, atur diatas loyang. Beri jarak antaradonan. Panggang selama 10 menit hingga kue matang. Angkat dan biarkan dingin.

Cara membuat Glasuur : 

Kocok gula bubuk dan putih telur hingga lembut. Tambahkan air jeruk lemon kemudian aduk hingga rata.

Cara penyelesaian resep ricotta cheese cookies :

Olesi permukaan kue dengan glasuur. Taburi atasnya dengan gula taburan warna hijau dan merah. Duamkan hingga glasuur mengering.
Simpan dalam wadah tertutup agar tetap renyah.

Ricotta Cheese Cookies telah siap untuk dihidangkan di hari natal dan tahun baru. Selamat mencoba resep dan cara membuat kue natal dan tahun baru ricotta chesse cookies and happy cooking :))

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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Processor

Image from ChipHell

NVIDIA said, months ago, that the next-generation Tegra mobile platform would be much stronger than Tegra 3, and now we can lay out all the proof anyone could need to believe that.

The codename of the Tegra 4 platform is Wayne, just like Tegra 3 carries the name of Kal-El, like a certain Kryptonian. As odd as it sounds, Kal-El is severely outmatched, or will be. Wayne will be six times more powerful than its predecessor. A roadmap slide depicting the core layout of the SoC (system-on-chip) made its way to Chinese website Chip Hell, somehow.


After the necessary translations, a promising picture took form. Tegra 4 keeps the 4-PLUS-1 architecture of Tegra 3, where there are four main ARM cores and a fifth one that takes over for all the others when nothing strenuous is running. It is a very efficient method of cutting power consumption. No need to keep everything on full throttle when just looking at a web page after all.

Naturally, besides the ARM cores, a graphics processing unit is used. As seen in the picture, it takes up a fourth of the whole die, with its 72 CUDA cores. NVIDIA promises very good performance at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, as well as Full HD (1080p), where the screen refresh rate can be of 120 Hz. Perhaps we'll actually see 3D-capable tablets up for sale before long.

Other than that, the Tegra 4 Wayne includes support for USB 3.0, dual-channel DDR3L memory and, unless our eyes deceive us, 4K support as well.

NVIDIA may or may not launch Wayne at CES 2013 (Consumer Electronics Show), between January 8 and 11. A “delay” until MWC 2013 (Mobile World Congress) in February could happen too. We've heard of PC companies diverting budget away from CES in order to have enough for the latter, so it wouldn't be too much of a shock for NVIDIA to schedule its move for later.
 
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Chevrolet Montana Combo

As entregas de fim de ano passam a ter mais um voluntário. Feita em fibra de vidro, a cobertura da caçamba encerra um volume de 3,3 m³ que pode levar 758 kg. O furgão sempre partirá da versão LS 1.4 flex da picape, partindo de R$ 40.474. O pacote R6W inclui banco do motorista com regulagem de altura e protetor de caçamba, o R6X (R$ 43.006) soma computador de bordo, direção hidráulica e rodas de 15”, e o R6V (R$ 47.115) agrega alarme, ar-condicionado, travas e vidros elétricos e sistema de som multimídia.

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GMC Sierra 1500

If Silverado received a new generation, why wouldn’t Sierra? And since they’re twins, why one of them would have to wait more? GM has shown what could be named as good parenting skills, and gave the new generation to both pick-ups at the same time. Besides that, this mother has also realized that they’re no longer a pair of babies, so allowed them to get bigger differentiation – each one has a much more individual design than their previous generations. With all that in mind, how about meeting the second of these siblings?

Badge engineering is a very tricky concept, and you must’ve heard this a lot of times – even without leaving this blog. There are many variables to consider, so using the set A or the set B is the biggest responsible for the car’s success or failure. When it comes to these two pick-ups, this new generation turned Sierra fancier than its sister, not only because of what differences were applied but also for how. GMC’s truck also received the aluminum hood, improved chassis with hydroformed front section, doors which now don’t reach the roof and other items to reduce the weight and obtain better aerodynamics, but the style changes manage to produce great effects without being too extensive. The intention seems to be creating conceptual differences, rather than more explicit ones. The bumper, for instance, is as chrome as Silverado’s, but received a more complex design. The grille must have the same size, but received big frames in order to reduce the size impression. Besides that, there’s a bigger external-color-painted contour around the elements, which helps to visually disconnect the items and gives a solidness impression. But nothing says “this is GM’s fancier truck” better than the headlights: can you notice that they’re shared with Silverado? Well, if at Chevrolet they come in pairs, Sierra avoids the extravagance by bringing only two, and wraps them in elegance with LED daytime illumination.

GMC also updated Sierra with Silverado’s new safety package, including the camera-based system to prevent forward collisions and lane-keeping system with sound and seat vibration alerts. There’s also electric steering for all versions, in a redesigned cabin whose biggest differences from Chevrolet’s truck are the red details, to contrast with the black and silver of the internal coatings. Sierra also received the latest version of IntelliLink in an 8” touchscreen: it isn’t hard to guess this is nothing more than GMC’s version of MyLink. The bed options depend on the cabin type: extended cab is paired only with the 6.5-feet one, while the regular cab adds only the 8-feet and the crew cab adds only the 5.8-feet, 8-inch option. There are two or four-driven wheels options, and three engines: like what’s seen on Silverado, Sierra now uses a 4.3L V6, a 5.3L V8 or a 6.2L V8, always with a six-speed automatic transmission. Those engines have several technologies to improve the efficiency, such as direct injection and cylinder-deactivation: when riding with light loads, the V6 turns off two and the V8 four of them. In other words, the biggest difference between Sierra and its Chevrolet twin sister is purely conceptual, like two more separate trim levels of the same vehicle. They will hit the streets early next year, but until now there’s no information about the price lists.

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Chevrolet Silverado 3

It’s nice to observe that each country has a very strong connection with a particular car category. The Europeans love hatchbacks, the Australians are crazy about sedan-based pickups, the Brazilians are very fond of sedans… and the North-Americans can’t resist a big, powerful pick-up truck. Their biggest competition is among the mid-sized ones, such as Ford F-150 and RAM 1500. While those needed only slight restyles, it was time for Silverado to receive a whole new generation. And what a great one it is!

These trucks’ sales are so big and stable that they don’t really need to perform big visual changes, since they seem to already have found what their public wants. That’s why, like its competitors, Silverado didn’t make a design revolution from its previous phase. It’s nice to see that it managed to become more modern along with becoming more imponent: the increased fenders are just the right addition to the cleanly-shaped sides, while the rear directs the attention only to the big tail lights and the brand’s logo. But the front is what surely deserves the bigger compliments: not only became tougher with the big grille and the chrome details, as also features a very stylish interpretation of the brand’s classical trucks design: the headlights are also divided in two, just like the 1998 model. But pick-up trucks doesn’t attract clients only with good looks. Silverado’s aerodynamics became much better not only because of the softened design but also because of the new doors, which were improved at fixation and size in order to reduce the internal noise. Besides that, the redesigned chassis uses hydroformed front section and lots of high-resistance steel at the cabin, resulting at a much bigger collision resistance. All of that is offered in Crew Cab and Extended Cab, whose box options go from 5’8” feet to 8’, depending on the cab option.

Another nice feature of the most recent pick-ups is the cabin. Since the 1990s they’ve been receiving so many luxury and comfort improvements that in nowadays it wouldn’t be very hard to mistake them with sedans or minivans. There are several contrasts in this cabin, which are actually very nice to observe: the new dashboard still brings many gauges like any big pick-up demands, but right next to it there’s the new console with a huge touchscreen signing that this car also has the new MyLink entertainment system, packed with multiple USB ports, Bluetooth connection and additional commands at the steering wheel – all the pick-ups have a very wide central armrest, right? Well, Silverado’s is a cover to this very big storage space, divided for fitting smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices. However, none of that has distracted Chevrolet that this is a pick-up truck: the box has LED lights beneath the rails, its corners have built-in steps for easier access and a great safety pack: there are electric steering, four-wheel disc ABS brakes, forward-collision-warning system with cameras and lane-keeping system with seat vibration and audible alert. All of that moves with the Ecotec3 engine family: direct injection and variable valve timing are some of the components used in the three available options. There’s a 4.3L V6, 5.3L V8 and 6.2L V8, all of them with cylinder deactivation when with light load.

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How to find free pictures for your blog, using Creative-Commons search

This article describes the Creative Commons search tool, which you can use to look for pictures, videos, music etc that are available for other people to use under a Creative Commons license.

What is Creative Commons

Previously I've described how copyright applies to bloggers, how you can protect your blog-content from copyright theives, and what you can do if they take you work anyway.

The focus in that series was looking after your own rights.

But rights always come with responsibilities. The details vary by country, but in general you cannot just copy other people's recent work without their permission - in the same way that they cannot copy yours.

Some people, though, are happy to give other people permission to use their work, often with certain conditions (eg you must including an attribution link to the creator).

Creative Commons is an easy, legal way for creators to give permission for things they create to be used by other people. It is a framework which offers "licenses" that creators (writers, artists, composers, poets, etc) can apply to their work to say that other people can make copies, and what conditions apply  (eg non-commercial use, only if you attribute me, etc)

To use it, authors, artists, etc don't need to register their work. Instead, they go to the Creative Commons website and get code / text to put with their published work to show what rules apply.

Then they can publish or upload their pictures, writing etc anywhere they want, and by linking to the licence the work is as protected as anything on the internet can be.

How to find pictures & music that are Creative Commons licensed

Creative Commons have a very useful search tool, found at http://search.creativecommons.org

This is not a search engine. Instead it is a front-end-tool that lets you choose:

• The keywords you want to search for (the search words)
• The type of license that you need (use for commercial purposes - yes or no, modify, adapt, build upon - yes/no)
• Which of the file host/search services to use (eg flickr, Google, Open clip art library - etc)

Once you have entered the search options, click on the source that you want to look in, and you are  taken to that site and shown the results of the search-query and options you entered.

For example, when I entered:

• "Christmas"
• Commercial allowed (because I wanted to make a picture to use in Blogger-HAT, where I have advertising)
• Changes allowed (because I wanted an image that I could use as the basis for another one, rather than exactly as it is now)

and clicked on Fotopedia, I was shown:

From here I could use the search tools in Fotopedia to refine my image-search and find just the right picture that I could use to represent a Christmas carol worksheet on my blog.

What sources are included

Today, the sources that are linked to from Creative Commons search are:

• Eurpoeana - media
• Flickr - pictures
• Fotopedia - pictures
• Google web - web search results
• Google images - pictures
• Jamenda - music
• Open Clip Art Library - images
• SpinXpress - media
• Wikimedia Commons - media
• YouTube - video
• Pixabay - images
• ccMixter - music
• SoundCloud - music

It wouldn't surprise me if this list grow/shrinks, as sites become more or less useful as sources of public-domain or creative-commons-licensed materials.

Things to watch out for

Creative Commons cannot guarantee that the results of searches that start in their tools will always be available for re-use: source systems may change their approach, items may be mis-tagged, content owners may change their mind, etc. So they recommend that you should always click-through to the original image in the source site, and double-check the license and attribution requirements there.

Also, some sites may allow you to link directly to the copy of the image on their site. this can be a lot quicker than making your own copy, uploading it and included it in your blog.  But doing this means that the image will not be used as the thumbnail-image for your post. And if the picture is ever removed from the original site - or its web-site address there changes - then the link in your blog will not work any more.

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Related Articles:

Bloggers and Copyright - an overview

Protecting your blog-contents from copyright theft

Taking action when someone has used your copyright materials

Thumbnail images - a picture to summarise each post

Adding a picture to Blogger

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Google product cancellations for December 2012

This quick-tip is about Google's winter 2012 product cancellations, which
appear to have less impact on most Blogger users than their recent seasonal purges.

Today, Google have announced their next round of discontinued products - they used to call it "spring cleaning", but this time around have at least acknowledged that it's winter for half the world, and summer for the other half!

Some Google Calendar features are to be discontinued, specifically:

• Creating new reservable times on a Calendar using Appointments Smart Rescheduler
• Add gadget by URL.
• Check your calendar via SMS/text message
• Create event via SMS/text message (GVENT).

My guess is that this may affect some Blogger users, who have integrated a calendar with a blog. It's a fairly specialist area, so likely to be a small number.

There are a few other discontinued features, but I suspect they won't affect bloggers to much extent:

• Google Sync a tool giving access to Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts via Microsoft Exchange's ActiveSync protocol - discontinued, except for Google Apps for Business, Government and Education.
• Google Calendar Sync
• Google Sync for Nokia S60
• SyncML, a contacts sync service used by some older mobile devices.

• Issue Tracker Data API: a tool that lets client applications view and update issues on Project Hosting on Google Code via API feeds.

• Punchd an app that keeps loyalty cards on smartphones

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Next Android OS - KOLACHE

A lot of rumors out there for naming of Android’s next OS. Manu Cornet, one of Google employee ignited the rumor through GooglePlus. He added another android robot with a “pie” like food in hand in one of his post to visualize the evolution of android versions. Thus the rumor hiped so much to guess a name of their next OS version.

As everybody determining there would be another dessert food item to be included as the successor of “Jelly Bean”. And from the past experience and continuity, people guessing there could be “Key Lime Pie” or “KLP”. Previous versions ware Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, so this time they would continue with the letter “K” and here comes the key lime pie. But, Manu Cornet disagreed to confirm anyhow about this naming process.

This is by no means a confirmation of any kind :-) I have no insider knowledge whatsoever about Android, this was purely based on public information/rumors. (Longer story: at first I hadn't drawn the rightmost robot at all, but then I thought the drawing would be outdated as soon as a new version/dessert would come out, so I thought I'd take one extra step, using the best guesses for the name currently out there, so that the drawing wouldn't be outdated so soon.

In India a big campaign started known as “KajuKatli forAndroid” to influence the naming of android’s next version as “KAJUKATLI”, a delicious dessert made of cashew nuts, sugar and ghee. The campeigners also sent some sweet Kaju Katli to Google masterminds if they could possibly understand the flavor of this sweety. It’s started with “K” also, mind it. And 2K is better than 1K… (If you want the recipe of Kaju Katli you can find a very good and quick recipe from Indian Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor and Raks Kitchen.

Though, I think, Google could announce “KOLACHE” as their next version of android OS. You know what, Kolache also much popular in USA and originating from Europe. “Android Kolache” sounds good also far better than “Key Lime Pie”. You can get all the good and quick recipes of Kolaches from All Recipes.

KOLACHE

My second choice would be "Android Kifli ", another K starter crescent shaped pastry. We have to wait for Google's announcement next year (2013). Till then ... keep guessing... and go Google, name it KOLACHE.




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