Problem: Article: Press E to see what items you have, and to find the small crafting screen. This is a 2 x 2 grid labeled "Crafting," to the right of your character portrait. Each craftable item has its own recipe. When you drag the right items into the crafting area, the result of the recipe will appear in the box on the right. Minecraft doesn't tell you the recipes, so it's up to you to discover them. Example: Drag a block of wood into the crafting area, leaving the other three squares empty. The box on the right should show a picture of wooden planks, with the number four next to it. (To get wood, move your mouse over a tree trunk and hold down the left mouse button.) This will put it in your inventory, and destroy the ingredients in the crafting area. Example: Drag the wooden planks to your inventory. The wood you used to make them will disappear. The inventory crafting screen only allows you to craft certain items. To make most Minecraft items, you'll need a crafting table. Cover the 2 x 2 crafting grid with wooden planks to build one. Drag the crafting table from the box on the right to your hotbar. (Your hotbar is the line of items at the bottom of the screen.) This recipe won't work if you just put one stack of four planks in the same square. Minecraft recipes care about what type of item is in each square, not how many items there are total. Right-click your stack of wooden planks to separate the items into multiple stacks. If you are on a Mac without a right-click button, use Control+click or use trackpad commands. Close your inventory by pressing E again. Select the crafting table in your hotbar. Move your mouse over a solid block, and right-click to put down the crafting table. Right-click the crafting table to open up a new screen. This looks similar to your inventory crafting screen, except it has a 3 x 3 grid. You can fit more items in this crafting area, which means you can make many more recipes. Minecraft is all about turning your items into better and better tools. Here's how to make a wooden pickaxe, one of the first tools many people make in a new game: Drag wood into one square of the crafting area to make wooden planks. Place two planks in a vertical line in the crafting area to make sticks. Place three planks across the top row of the crafting area. Place a stick in the center square, and another stick just below it. This last recipe makes a wooden pickaxe. Equip it in your hotbar and select it, and you can break stone blocks. You can experiment to discover recipes yourself, or look up instructions online. Here are some useful basic recipes to get you started: Make a sword to fight monsters. Craft other tools to break down blocks faster or allow you to break more advanced blocks. Get a stone axe and pickaxe as soon as you can, then mine iron ore so you can upgrade again. Build a furnace out of cobblestone to cook food and to smelt iron ore into usable metal. Make torches to light your house, preventing monsters from appearing inside. Make armor out of leather or iron to protect yourself. Craft a bed so you can sleep through night and set a new spawn point.
Summary: Open your inventory. Drag items to the crafting area. Drag the finished item to your inventory. Build a crafting table. Place the crafting table. Open the crafting table. Craft a pickaxe. Find more recipes.

Problem: Article: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius. Cover a cake pan that is eight-inches with melted butter or oil using a pastry brush. Dust with flour. In a mixing bowl, use a whisk or fork to mix the soy milk and vinegar together. Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda into a large mixing bowl. Use a wooden spoon to combine the dry ingredients together. Pour the almond extract, vanilla extract, lemon juice, water, and apple cider vinegar. Mix them together using a whisk or fork, until properly combined. Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Use a wooden spoon to mix the cake batter. For a faster results, you can also use an electric or hand blender. Mix until cake is a light yellow in color and is glossy. Use a rubber spatula to scrape up all the cake batter into the cake pan. Place the cake pan into the oven. Have it bake for about 35 minutes, which is when the cake springs back when you touch it, and a toothpick comes out dry when you poke the cake. Flip the cake pan upside down on a wire rack. To make the cake easier to flip, circle a knife around it. It should pop out. Have the cake cool for about five minutes. the cake. Using your favorite frosting and icing, frost your cake to your liking. You can also add toppings such as sliced fruit, sprinkles, nuts, chocolate chips, and coconut flakes.
Summary: Prepare to make the cake. Mix soy milk and vinegar. Mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add the wet ingredients into the soy milk mixture. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Pour the cake batter in cake pan. Bake the cake. Let the cake cool. Frost Enjoy!

Problem: Article: Clean Magic Eraser. This cleaning tool can be found in most supermarkets. You may be able to find an off-brand version for cheaper as well. Make sure to scrub in straight lines from the center outwards. Apply a fair amount of force so that the eraser can polish the scratches, but not so much that it wears away the entire layer. After you've finished polishing the scratches with the magic eraser, run the disc under a water tap and dry it off with a soft cloth. When drying, use the same motion that you used to erase: straight lines from the center out to the edges. After you've finished polishing and rinsing the disc, you can try playing it again. If it still doesn't work, you can go another round with the magic eraser, or try another method from this article.
Summary: Purchase a Mr. Use the eraser to scrub the scratches. Rinse and dry the disc. Try the disc.

Problem: Article: Reading at different paces helps you read both efficiently and quickly. Some articles will be more complicated than others. Read fluffier material quickly, and slow your pace when you reach something more complicated. Some articles can be skimmed or read very quickly. A local interest story about a new restaurant, for example, is probably not very complex. You can breeze through this article quickly and still learn most of the necessary information. An article that's covering, say, a recent political debate is probably more complex. You will have to slow your pace to read articles of this nature. Even though you are reading slowly here, you will still get through the paper faster having skimmed less complicated articles. News can be a bit redundant. Sometimes, information will appear in more than one section. For example, an op-ed about a current event may include facts you already read in an article. Another article may contain basic information about ongoing current events you already know. If you start reading something that sounds familiar, skim or skip over the paragraph. If an entire article seems like information you already know, it's okay to skip it. If you read news online or watch the news, information in a newspaper may be repetitive. Many people have a tendency to talk to themselves when reading. You may whisper the words out loud as you read them in your head. This habit can actually greatly slow down your reading pace. Pay attention to your mouth when you read. Try to be aware of mouthing the words out loud. If you catch yourself whispering or talking, stop. You will finish the paper quicker if you're not talking out loud. You may also find you're talking to yourself silently in your head while you read. You may be repeating the words in your head a second time or adding commentary. Try to silence your internal monologue when you're reading. Contrary to what many believe, reading a phrase over and over again does not improve comprehension. It can also slow down your reading speed. If you're reading a complex article, it's more effective to slow down and read carefully. This will get the job done quicker and help you better retain the information.
Summary:
Vary your reading speed. Skim or skip over information you already know. Do not talk to yourself when you read. Avoid re-reading phrases.