Category: Tips & Tricks

WARNING:

I bet it’s happened to everyone that you needed a VGA cable but you didn’t have it.

The solution to this problem is very easy to understand and easy to make

You’ll need:

-A computer (All computer types are good, you just need a VGA plug as shown below)

-A VGA monitor(with a VGA plug as computer, shown below) . Also TVs are good, you just need that VGA plug.

-15 cables, as long as you want.

-Steady hand and lots, lots of patience.

If you look carefully there hare fifteen little holes in the plug on your computer and on your monitor. This holes are called PINs

What the normal cable does is wiring the two plugs of the monitor and of the computer.

It’s very simple! You just have to wire a part of the cable in a PIN of the computer plug and the other part in the Monitor plug. For example: if you put a part of the cable in the PIN number 15, you have to wire the other part to the correspondent PIN number 15. (for PIN numbers see the photo up in the page).

If you understood of to put a cable, you can go ahead doing the other 14.

If you have done all of 15 wiring, you’ll have something like this:

(The photo isn’t great, but you can see the 15 pin wired).

As you can see (If you done all it well)the home-made cable will work and your screen will be duplicated, but changing the options you can extend the monitors or view only one of the two.

Very often the .jar executable files are converted in .exe executable to work with Windows.

First method – Decompile by using JD-GUI

Move the downloaded file in a new folder and change the extension to “.exe” to “.zip”

Open JD-GUI by double clicking the jar executable.

Now open the zip file we just created go to File>Open File…> and choose the file we created

Now you JD-GUI workspace should look like this.

Go To File>Save All Files> and choose the directory when you want to save the zip file with the sources. You should import this file into an IDE to make it work.

Second method – Decompile by using fernflower (via command prompt)

1. Rename “Minecraft.exe” in “Minecraft.jar”, with the method used for the JD-GUI to rename it in .zip
   
2. Open the Command Prompt, hitting the button tasto Windows + R, typing cmd and hitting Enter
   
3. Use the cd command to move to the directory the fernflower is in.
4. Now in the Command Prompt write  java -jar fernflower.jar Minecraft.jar decomp/
5. This will open the fernflower(fernflower.jar), sets the file to decompile to Minecraft.zip and put the decompiled jar in the decomp sub-folder in the fernflower folder.
6. Enter the decomp sub-folder in the fernflower folder and rename the “Minecraft.jar” in “Minecraft.zip”
7. Now you have your decompiled !   

In both cases, you will have to import the decompiled source code into an IDE.

I hope this was useful for your as it was for me! 😀

Google has its own service to host free static web sites, it’s sites.google.com. Here you can only host static websites, this means that you have no animations, no comments and no ads. When I had my website hosted there, i decided to put comments under every post, but it wasn’t possible, as said before. Googling around for an entire day, i found this nice website, that makes you put an html box inside the page that enables comments. Here is the link to the page.

You just have to follow the instructions in the given link, and you will add comments to your Google site.

Unfortunately the guide provided by google for this isn’t updated, so I spent 5 minutes searching the correct option.