How to log in to a Comcast Xfinity router

There are many reasons you might want to access your Comcast router. For instance, you may want to change your password or set up port forwarding for a nerdy project you are working on.

1Make sure you are connected to your network

This can be a wired or wifi connection.

2Open a browser and go to 10.0.0.1

This is the router’s gateway and it will automatically bring up a log in screen.

3Enter username and password

Username: admin Password: password Now you’re logged in!

4Change your password!

You can change your password by click “Change Password” at the top right of the admin panel.


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Fix weird tab cycling in Sublime Text 2

By default, CTRL-TAB and SHIFT-CTRL-TAB don’t operate in the same way that Google Chrome tab cycling does. For example, when you press CTRL-TAB it doesn’t always cycle to the next open document. Here’s how to restore normal tabbing functionality.

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  • 1 ea Sublime Text 2

1Access the settings for Key Bindings – User

This can be found under preferences.

2Add the following

When your key bindings/keymap settings file opens up, add the following between the open and close brackets. { "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" }, { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+tab"], "command": "prev_view" }

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Be sure to place this in the Key Bindings – User file; if you edit the System file, it will be overwritten when you update Sublime.

3Save and close the file

Since you’ve edited the Key Bindings – User preferences file, your settings will be saved even when you update Sublime.


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How to shave with a straight razor

Shaving with a straight razor is a little tough at the beginning, but once you get used to it, its an extremely close shave and costs next to nothing once you have the gear. Come find out how your grandpa used to shave!

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1Sharpen your straight razor

Having a sharp razor is of utmost importance to this task. If you are using a dull blade, it will be painful, inefficient, and ineffective. Holding your leather strap taut, run your blade almost lightly up and down the strap lightly. You want the sharp edge to face you when you’re sliding away and to face the wall when you’re pulling towards you.

Do this lightly about 40 times to make sure you have an extremely sharp blade.

Sharpen your straight razor

2Soften your soap

Your grandpa probably used high lather shaving cream. That’ll work, but a good low lather soap will do just as well. To soften my soap, I soak it in a small jar of hot water. I also soak my brush to soften it up.

Soften your soap

3Lather up your face

Drain the water you used to soak the soap. Then, stir up the soap with your brush and get a good layer going on your face.

Lather up your face

4Grip your blade

You will need to manipulate the blade a lot while shaving and this is the ideal grip. Notice how the blade was made for this? Pretty amazing.

Grip your blade

5Begin shaving at your sideburns

The 2 most important things to remember during the shave are the angle of the blade and the the tautness of your skin. Hold your skin completely taut and maintain a steady 25-30 degree angle and you’re on your way to success. I usually have a towel handy to wipe the blade after I rinse it.

Begin shaving at your sideburns

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Take it slow. It takes a while to get used to shaving like this.

6Shave just the easy parts

Working your way with short, easy strokes, and getting yourself used to holding the blade, shave all the easy to reach places.

Shave just the easy parts

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Its ok if you have to re-lather your face a couple of times.

7Shave your neck

Your neck is the next easiest bit. Lift your chin all the way up to keep the skin tight and go to town.

Shave your neck

8Shave your moustache

If you’re like me, you wish you could look like Magnum P.I. but you end up looking more like a 13 year old with peach fuzz so let’s shave it off. Just go slow and find some way to maneuver the blade while keeping your skin tight.

Shave your moustache

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Make sure to make a Hitler stache in the process.

9Shave the difficult parts

I like to rinse my face and re-lather for my chin and jawline. These parts are the hardest because they’re either the thickest or the hardest to get your blade in.

Shave the difficult parts

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For my chin, I shave the tiniest bits at a time, making sure the angle of the blade is correct. For my jawline, I stretch my skin as much as I can to make the areas a flat surface before shaving them.

10Cut yourself

It’s going to happen and its ok.

11Enjoy your new baby face!

Enjoy your new baby face!

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Remove an iFrame border in IE8

by Theo in webdesign, webdev, html | 1 min

Internet Explorer 8 may display a border regardless of your CSS attempts. This guide details how to remove it.

1Add the frameBorder attribute below to the iFrame tag

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frameBorder is necessary to remove borders in IE6-IE8, but is not HTML5 valid.


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How to disinfect Vibram Five Finger toe shoes without ruining them

Vibram Five Finger shoes are awesome for running, hiking, and looking weird around town. Unfortunately, toe shoes start to smell if you don’t wear socks with them every time you wear them. While Vibram claims that the shoes are machine washable, you will

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1Place your toe shoes into a bucket

I also threw my gym gloves in there while I was at it. If you’ve never washed your gym gloves before, I would clean them separately from your toe shoes; most gym gloves (even leather ones) will release dye the first time they’re washed. This could taint your pretty toe shoes.

Place your toe shoes into a bucket

2Place a weight on top of the shoes and fill with hot water

Use a weight (I used a ceramic kitchen bowl) to keep the shoes from floating. Fill the bucket with hot water until the shoes and weight are completely covered.

Place a weight on top of the shoes and fill with hot water

3Add denture cleaning tablets

Drop denture cleaning tablets into the water. I used 16 tablets just to be safe — the tablets are really inexpensive and I wanted to be sure that my shoes got really clean.

Add denture cleaning tablets

4Let your shoes soak overnight

Place the bucket somewhere out of the way and let it sit overnight.

Let your shoes soak overnight

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Denture cleaners are minty and smell nice — keep the bucket away from pets. Though the tablets aren’t toxic to humans, your dog may not have a great time after drinking a bunch of dirty denture tablet water.

5Rinse your shoes

Remove your shoes from the bucket and run them under a faucet. This will thoroughly remove any denture cleaning residue that might exist.

6Dry your shoes

This part is extremely important. If you do not dry the shoes properly, they will begin to smell right away. There are a few methods for doing this: – Hang them in front of a powerful fan for a few hours (this is what I did). – Hang them outside in an area where a nice breeze exists. – Air-tumble dry them in your dryer on the delicate setting; be sure not to use a large amount of heat as this may shrink the material. – Place them on the floor directly in front of your refrigerator; this method is only effective for certain types of refrigerators that push air and heat out beneath the front doors.

7Keeping them clean moving forward

The best way to keep your toe shoes clean moving forward is to always wear toe socks with them. Toe socks aren’t terribly expensive and really pay off in the long run.


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Always Clear Downloads in Chrome

Tired of constantly closing the downloads bar in Chrome? As a web developer who constantly downloads things, I was too. Thankfully, a Google Chrome extension exists to automatically close the bar for you.

1Download the Always Clear Downloads extension

You can download the Always Clear Downloads extension from the Chrome Web Store using this link. Enable it and you’re good to go!


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Drink Whiskey

In this guide I will show you how to drink Whiskey. There are a few different ways that people like to drink Whiskey. Im going to give you my top three.

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  • 1 ea Whiskey Glass

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  • 1 ea Bottle of Makers Mark 46
  • 1 ea Ice Cold water or Ice

1Straight Whiskey

– Pour into glass, let sit for a few seconds, take a drink. – Let Whiskey Rest in your mouth, under your tongue. This allows the burn to settle and will help your mouth taste the real flavor of the drink. – Swallow Whiskey, breathe out through your nose. This will give you a more clear taste of the age and beauty of the drink. This form of drinking Whiskey is off putting to most people but allows the consumer to really get a true taste of the raw flavor of the drink. You are not hiding it with and coke or other flavors, this is just pure aged goodness.

Note:

This is a very strong taste and flavor. You need a good developed pallet to handle this.

2Tear drop Whiskey

– Pour Whiskey into glass. Let it sit. – Take a drop of Ice Cold Water (as cold as you can get it) place it into the Whiskey. – Repeat step two and three of “Straight Whiskey” This “Tear Drop” Whiskey is a way to draw out the more difficult flavors to find in the drink without drowning all of the aged goodness. This cold drop of water is going to bring out the lighter notes of the drink as well.

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This is a good way to get very subtle but great flavor from your Whiskey

3On the Rocks

– Pour Whiskey into glass with 3 ice cubes (you can substitute for more but I recommend 3) – DO NOT LET IT SIT. The longer you let it sit in the ice the more diluted the flavor will be. – Drink slowly make sure you leave the whole ice cubes in the glass. On the rocks is a more intense version of the “Tear Drop” it is going to bring out a lot of lighter flavor that isnt as harsh or raw.

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Recommended for first timers.


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How to pour the perfect beer

Some beers were meant to be enjoyed from a glass. This guide will teach you how to pour the perfect beer to impress your friends, family, and pets.

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  • 1 ea Beer glass
  • 1 ea Bottle opener

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  • 1 ea Beer

1Tip your glass (or mug) 45 degrees

Continuing to hold the glass this way while you begin pouring your beer.

Tip your glass (or mug) 45 degrees

2Touch the rim of the bottle to the edge of your glass

You want the mouth/opening of the bottle to be as close as possible to the sidewall of the glass (without spilling the beer). This minimizes splashback. More on this later.

Touch the rim of the bottle to the edge of your glass

3Begin to pour the beer into your glass, tipping the glass slowly downwards as you do so

The goal here is to try and pour the beer down the side of the glass — it is the chaotic splashing against the bottom of the glass that causes beer to foam excessively (read: excessive head). By tipping the glass slowly while you pour, such that it becomes more parallel to the ground, you can minimize this splashing.

Begin to pour the beer into your glass, tipping the glass slowly downwards as you do so

4Tip the glass upwards to put an appropriate head on your beer

When your beer bottle is approximately 75-85% empty, tip your glass completely upright so that it is perpendicular to the floor. This will apply an appropriate amount of delicious, frothy goodness atop your favorite brew.

Tip the glass upwards to put an appropriate head on your beer

5Consume said beer

Then, rinse and repeat.

Consume said beer

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  • 1 ea Beer

Bottle cutting 101: Turning empty beer bottles into awesome drinking glasses

by Zach in drunk, beer | 9 hr 30 min

What better to fill with beer than an empty glass that was once filled with beer? Keep the beer flowing and create a beer infinity loop by turning old beer bottles into glasses. Also, it’s a good excuse to get drunk and then use sharp tools to cut glass.

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  • 1 ea Water
  • 1 ea ice
  • 1 ea beer bottle
  • 1 ea chain lubricant
  • 1 ea sandpaper, 120-grit
  • 1 ea sandpaper, 60-grit

1The end result

Because some people like to jump right to the end, this is what your pint glasses will (hopefully) look like.

The end result

2Select your bottles

Bottles with paper labels are no good; you want to choose bottles which have the label “painted” directly on the glass. If you can peel it off the bottle with your finger, it’s no good. I chose Rogue since they always come with labels printed directly on the bottle. Also, their bottle art is pretty good (as is their beer).

Select your bottles

3Drink all of the beer

Drink the beer rapidly and furiously. Enlist the help of friends to accelerate beer consumption.

Drink all of the beer

Note:

Things might get weird.

4Wash the bottles

Clean the empty bottles using soap and water. This will help to keep your glass cutting tool clean.

Wash the bottles

5Determine where to cut and adjust your bottle cutter

The positioning of the bottle art will determine where to make your cut. Art positioned further away from the neck will afford you a greater range of cutting possibilities, opening up the option to make a cut based on volumetric measurements — such as creating an actual pint glass (16oz). I’m going to disregard the final volume of each glass to maximize the cup’s aesthetics.

Adjust your bottle cutter to the desired position of your cut; this step varies by glass cutter manufacturer, but should be easy to figure out (or RTFM). It is important that the cutting blade be perpendicular to the cutting surface. In other words, if you’re cutting on a curved portion of the glass, your blade should intersect the glass at a point that would best form a 90-degree angle to the curve of the glass.

Determine where to cut and adjust your bottle cutter

Note:

If you’d like to make the final product an actual 16oz pint glass, you can use use the cylinder volume formula to determine exactly where to make your cut. Remember that you need to use the inside diameter of the bottle to determine radius, and take into account the “dimple” that exists at the bottom of most bottles. If you want to be lazy or are too drunk to do math properly, use a measuring cup or beaker to measure 16oz of liquid, pour it into the empty bottle, and use a marker to mark your cut spot.

6Score the glass using one full rotation

You may want to start with a “test” bottle for practice, but this is completely up to you. I went through three test bottles before I got the process down. Initial results were less than stellar.

In glass cutting, the lighter the score, the better the separation will be. If you score too deep, separation cannot occur. If you go over your original score mark, you will have issues as well. Your goal is to produce a continuous, barely audible scratching noise when making the cut. Clear the room of noisy artifacts.

Apply a small amount of light oil to the cutting blade; I used bicycle chain lubricant since I had it lying around. Now, holding the cutter securely in your hand, rotate the bottle until you’ve made one full rotation. You should hear a faint yet continuous scratching noise followed by a gravelly noise when you’ve circled the bottle entirely and ended up at the same place where you started your cut. Inspect your work: you should now see a thin, hair-like score surrounding the bottle.

Score the glass using one full rotation

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If you accidentally “skip” an area while making the score, go back and re-score that area only.

7Boil some water

We’re going to give the bottle a hot/cold bath to separate the sections which you’ve scored. The sudden temperature change will cause the bottle to separate perfectly wherever you’ve scored the glass.

It’s important to note that you’ll need a pot deep enough that you can submerge the bottle vertically (open side down) until the score line is completely covered. Fill the pot with water and heat it on your stove. Use enough water that you can submerge your score line completely. Your empty bottle has volume, and that volume will displace an equal amount of water. If you fill your pot too much, the boiling water will overflow when you submerge your bottle. After it’s heated to boiling, turn it down to simmer.

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Use protective gloves so as not to burn your hands horribly.

8Chill some water

Now for the cold bath: fill a container with ice and water. Again, use a container deep enough that you can submerge your score line completely, remembering that your bottle will displace a certain amount of water. Place the cold water apparatus near the boiling pot of water.

Chill some water

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Use the ice water to cool your hands if you burn your hands horribly.

9Separate the bottle

Using your protective gloves, submerge the bottle vertically, open side down, into the hot water until it completely covers the score line. Hold it in the hot water for 5 seconds, and then immediately submerge it in the cold water. Hold it in the cold water for 5 seconds. Repeat this process until the bottle separates at your score line. You will hear a small “pop” as the sections separate.
I wasn’t able to take a photo of this step since my hands were both occupied, but attached is a photo of the final result.

Separate the bottle

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The sections may separate when the bottle is either in the hot water or the cold. Be careful. If the bottle still has not separated, you can use your glass cutter’s included tapping tool to tap the bottle from within to separate the sections. This is not preferable but usually works.

10Sand the rough edges

To prevent cutting your mouth and looking like a meth addict, you will now sand the sharp edges which you’ve created on your beautiful cylinder. Use the sandpaper that came with your cutter to accomplish this. Normal sandpaper also works great.

Place some 60-grit sandpaper in a shallow bowl and then fill it with water. Using a combination of circular motions and rotations, slowly rub the sharp edges of your new cup on the sandpaper. Always ensure that the portion you’re sanding is submerged in the water. Sand the inner and outer lips as well since these will both make contact with your mouth. Finish the sanding off with some 120-grit sandpaper for a smooth, sweet finish.

Sand the rough edges

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If your cutter didn’t come with sandpaper, you can pick some up at the store. Don’t do this drunkenly or suffer the mighty wrath of the local jail.

11Fill your new glass with beer

Wash the glass sediment from your new glass and celebrate a job well done!

Fill your new glass with beer

12Now, what to do with these bottlenecks?

I turned them into candlesticks. This part is pretty self-explanatory.

Now, what to do with these bottlenecks?

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  • 1 ea ice
  • 1 ea beer bottle
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