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Releases Firefox of a still running message
Sometimes Firefox crashes or is bad finished and the message the process is still running appear while it's not. This also works when you sharing account from a NIS server and try to open the browser on multiple computers.

svn diff colorized
If colordiff utility installed, it is sometimes handy to call this command. Of course, you should create an alias for it. E.g. svndiff.

Extract title from HTML files
This command can be used to extract the title defined in HTML pages

move a lot of files over ssh
copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

find all writable (by user) files in a directory tree (use 4 for readable, 1 for executable)

Bash logger

DVD ripping with ffmpeg
Alternative, imho better, using the concat protocol

Lets Tux say the random fact. [add it to .bashrc to see it in new terminal window]

run a command from within vi without exiting
":! ls -l " results in listing the files in the current directory. pressing "enter" will get you back into vi.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"


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