Use TreeSize to recover your space

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You often wonder where your disk space has gone many times, even though you know you have downloaded a lot of movies or taken a lot of pictures lately.

TreeSize Free is here to help. This free software will help you discover and recover your lost disk space.

Installing and running TreeSize Free is a breeze. Once open, the application allows you to see the size of the directory you are into and then, in Explorer-style, you can open sub-folders to see their size as well.

According to Jam Software “scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize Free is working. The Explorer context menu is supported within TreeSize, as well as the usual drag & drop operations.”

This is a good app that will be appreciated especially by those in need of good and cheap (or free)  server administration tools for monitoring their space

- Prachi Chourey

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Photography : Long Exposure, Night Shot

Night Photography : No Flash : Natural Street Yellow Light along with MoonLight : Shutter speed = 15 Seconds (Long Exposure) : Aperture size F = 3.2 : ISO : 50 : Model sitting on the Car top : Moon on Centre Right : Actual Lighting condition very poor for Human eyes, but sufficient for Camera when exposed for this long time : A Light beam (both Left & Right side of Model) Tangent to Car top surface is of a Motor Bike Headlight which passed from behind when the shot was being taken : White spark light on the Model’s shadow is reflection of light coming from window of far off house.

- Prachi Chourey

Photography : Mosquito on apple

Mosquito on Apple

Prachi Chourey

Needed lot of patience to click this, I must thank this mosquito also who demonstrated patience and was too busy in sucking apple that it didn’t notice that I was that close to it. I took 102 photographs and I selected this for usefilm for the reason that I like the Symmetry in this capture .. legs, antennas, position, angle, focus…

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Photography : Mosquito with my blood

Mosquito …
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Took early morning. This damn mosquito did bite me and had my blood in its stomach.. I couldn’t get my blood back but thought of having its pic atleast…
Macro photography, did put Glass magnifier in front of Camera for this macro shot..

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Photography : Lotus

Lotus
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Lotus Flower, Colors of Nature.
It was Cloudy, Canon G3 Camera.. Lotus was in water at Office Landscape..
Photographed in year 2004..

Hope you like it..

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Photography : Cactus

Cactus
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This cactus flower, of our garden, comes every 4 months. Keeps healthy and fully grown for only 1 day and then slowly dies off. Taken on the day when it was it its best. Hope you will like it..

Hope you like it..

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Photograpy - Water Lady

Water Lady
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Lady Sitting on floor, thinking, keeping both of her hands wrapped around the folded legs.
Water Experiments at Kitchen, Used Ordinary Hand held Magnifier lens. Water drop, from kitchen tap, splashing into water filled glass bowl.

Hope you like it..

- Prachi Chourey

Water Drop

Water Drop
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In the Kitchen, got some more like this, but got this one as Drop closest to ‘Detach’ point.

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In The Kitchen - Fondant Cake

Fondant Cake in Kitchen...
Creativity starts just after that...

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Prachi Chourey

Baby Shower Cake..

Baby Shower

This one I made for one of my friend's Baby Shower...

I wanted to try something different .. more than just cake and this is what I came up with.
Friends like the Washing Line with Clothes thing..

Hope you like it ..

Do Share and comment...

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Prachi Chourey

Cup Cakes

These are the cup cakes, I tried.. 

They use Fondants. Looks Yummy but yes very sweet too..
Every Design is unique in itself and needs good effort to give them proper shape and contour.. 

Share it .. Comments ?

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Prachi Chourey

How to make Fondant Cake (Recipe)

How to make a Fondant Cake

Ingredients:-

1 cup all purpose flour(maida)

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil (I prefer Canola) or you can use pure ghee

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

8-10 drops of vanilla or any other essence(a/c to ur choice)

(For 2 cups just double the recipe)

Method:-

1. In a large bowl or plate sift(2-3 times) together the flour,baking powder & baking soda.

2. In other bowl take milk, sugar,vanilla essence & oil stir it well with the help of either hand blender,electronic blender or whisk (for 2-3 min)

3. Preheat the oven at 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Lightly grease pan and sprinkle some flour to avoid the stickiness.

4. Now add the flour(1st bowl mixture) in to 2nd bowl & blend it all together for 10 to min, avoid the lumps.

5. Pour the batter in to prepared greased pan, tap the pan to even it out and break the air bubbles if any.

6.Bake it for 20-25 min. check in between with the help of toothpick or any other long stick for its doneness, if the batter get stick with the toothpick keep it for some more time.

7.Place the cake on the rack for it to cool down completely before putting the icing or frosting on it.

8. You can use any icing on it like a butter cream, whipping cream or can use fondant(a/c to ur choice & taste)

9. I always prefer to use whipping cream, it tastes yum. For that use heavy whipping cream(can get easily in HEB,Kroger or Walmart)(sorry guys don't know about there in India, if it is easily available or not ).

10.Chill the bowl and whisk attachment of a stand mixer(can use hand blender too ) for 20 min. in the refrigerator or 5 min. in the freezer. Pour the heavy cream into the bowl and whisk on medium-high speed until it just starts to thicken. Slow the speed down to medium and gradually pour in the sugar. Continue to whisk until soft peaks form.

Add the vanilla extract and continue to whisk by hand until the cream is smooth, and stiff peaks form (the cream will stand up straight when the whisk is raised).

11. Your frosting is ready to use on the cake, now spread it well with the help of spatula.

12. Fill the icing cones with you desirable icing color & tip & make designs according to ur ideas..can take the help of Youtube.

13. You can also use ready to use fondant & gumpaste to make beautiful cakes (but its kind of much sweet)

Enjoy the recipe & please let me know how it turned out

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Prachi Chourey

Cake Decoration # 1

Cake Design #1

Lets talk about this Cake Design. This is fondant based cake that I prepared along with my neighbor friend.

It did take around 6 hrs to prepare & decorate this one. So it took around 2 hrs to prepare the cake base and approx 4 hrs to decorate it.

Lets learn more about fondants. What are they and how it is used in Cake decorations.

Fondant is is one of several kinds of icing-like substance used to decorate or sculpt pastries. The word, in French, means "melting", coming from the same root as "foundry" in English.

Types of Fondants

Poured fondant is a creamy confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. In its simplest form, it is sugar and water cooked to the soft-ball stage, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it is an opaque mass of creamy consistency. Sometimes lemon is added to the mixture, mainly for taste. Other flavorings are used as well, as are various colorings. For example, the main filling of a Cadbury Creme Egg is poured fondant.

Rolled fondant or fondant icing, which is not the same material as poured fondant, is commonly used to decorate wedding cakes. It includes gelatin (or agar in vegetarian recipes) and food-gradeglycerine, which keeps the sugar pliable and creates a dough-like consistency. It can also be made using powdered sugar and melted marshmallows. Rolled fondant is rolled out like a pie crust and used to cover the cake.
This particular in picture is Rolled fondant and it's raw material is available in market.

Keep visiting, Next blog I will detail more about it..

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Prachi Chourey