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Google URL shortener
(1) required: python-googl ( install by: pip install python-googl ) (2) get from google API console https://code.google.com/apis/console/

Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)
I always add this to my .profile rc so I can do things like: "vim *.c" and the files are opened in tabs.

Count to 65535 in binary (for no apparent reason)
Yes, it's useless.

Find a CommandlineFu users average command rating
This could be used to filter commands that might be from trolls

Get movie length

notify brightness level [custom]
Brightness indicator to be used in scripts that adjust brightness [especially sys that doesn't support automatically]

Remove all files except list

Batch Convert SVG to PNG (in parallel)
Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command. Run the conversions in parallel to save time. This is safer than robinro's forkbomb approach :-) xargs runs four processes at a time -P4

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Rotate a video file by 90 degrees CW
Change video orientation in metadata only

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