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Find total Terabytes written to a SSD
You must have smartmontools installed for this to work. This also assumes you 512 byte sector sizes, this is pretty standard.

Go up multiple levels of directories quickly and easily.
This is a kind of wrapper around the shell builtin cd that allows a person to quickly go up several directories. Instead of typing: cd ../.. A user can type: cd ... Instead of: cd ../../.. Type: cd .... Add another period and it goes up four levels. Adding more periods will take you up more levels.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

Check if you work on a virtual/physical machine in Linux
Command used to know if we are working on a virtual or physical machine. This command will use the dmidecode utility to retrieve hardware information of your computer via the BIOS. Run this command as root or with sudo.

Uninstall bloatware on your android device without root.
List all packages with: pm list packages|cut -d: -f2

convert unixtime to human-readable

gets your public IP address

Shortcut to find files with ease.
It looks for files that contains the given word as parameter. * case insensitive * matches files containing the given word.

dmesg with colored human-readable dates
Use sed to color the output of a human-readable dmesg output

start a vnc server session to connect to a gdm login screen


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