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Case: You want to create a custom action in Thunar so when you pick a file or folder and you right-click on it, you can have the action in the menu. Requisites: Thunar File Manager. Steps: See the current right-click menu and validate that the custom action is not there.     Go to 'Edition' in the toolbar and select 'Configure custom actions...'.       Click '+' to add a new action.       Put a name to display in the menu, a description, the command to execute when clicking, a shortcut and an icon.       Go to 'Appearance Conditions' tab, put 'File Pattern' and check for which types of items the action will appear and click 'OK'.       Results: When you right-click on an item and this fulfill the conditions, the custom action will be ready to use.  

Case: Your Facebook page was managed by a former employee, you can't contact him and you want to recover the admin rights. Requisites: Active Facebook account and the URL of the Facebook page. Steps: Go to this page . As there is no a specific option for this case, pick 'Trademark' and then 'Continue with your trademark report'. Pick 'I found content which I believe infringes my trademark'.   Pick 'Continue with my trademark report'.   Pick 'Provide your contact information', 'Me or my organization' and complete the information required. Pick 'Provide your trademark information' and complete the information required.  Pick 'Provide the content you want to report', 'An entire Page, group or profile' and provide the URL of your Facebook page you want to recover in the text box.   Below complete the text box under 'Please describe how you believe this content infringes your trademark rights.' explai...

Case: You will stop using an e-mail account in Outlook Web App (OWA) and you need to backup your e-mails there to another account. Requisites: Access to your e-mail account in Outlook Web App and an active different e-mail account. Steps: Log in to the OWA account and click on New mail . Put the 2 windows one next to the other.   Select the e-mails you want to backup by clicking each checkbox or by using the shift key to select a range. Remember that some account can't receive a big amount of e-mails at the same time, you will need to find this number by trying.   Click one of the selected e-mails to drag and drop the selected e-mails to the other window.   Wait for the e-mails to load as attachments.   Send that message to the e-mail you want.  Results: If the size of the e-mail you're sending is too big, you will receive a reply notifying this. Else, you will receive an e-mail in the other account with the messages, you can open the e-mail from there whe...

Case: You use Debian with Xfce Desktop Environment, you need a simple countdown timer and no package convinces you. Requisites: Packages libnotify and pulseaudio are installed. Steps: Open a text editor and copy this code: #!/bin/bash hour=$1 min=$2 sec=$3 while [ $hour -ge 0 ]; do          while [ $min -ge 0 ]; do                  while [ $sec -ge 0 ]; do                          echo -ne "$hour:$min:$sec\r"                          let "sec=sec-1"                          sleep 1     ...

Case: You need an online board where anyone can access at the same time and work on it, could be a Kanban board, SAFe Program/Team Board, User Story Map, Customer Journey Map and so on. However, you don't want to get an additional tool. Requisites: Internet access, PowerPoint and OneDrive or SharePoint . Steps: Create one slide and change its size according to your needs (Design > Slide Size > Custom Slide Size...): Edit the slide to have what you need before sharing it: Upload the file in OneDrive or SharePoint and share the link. Make the contributors access the file by using the app, as the browser version is limited: Results: Contributors will start working on the file concurrently and they will be able to see each other's modification, for example here the user MR in green is editing also the file:

Case: You try to install TWRP Recovery in your Xiaomi Redmi 6A, but the official process doesn't work. Requisites: Xiaomi Redmi 6A phone, USB cable, computer with Windows and TWRP Cactus Tools installed . Steps: Make sure the phone is connected to the computer and in debug mode.  Open TWRP Cactus Tools: Click 'Flash TWRP' and select the right TWRP (be careful with the Android version): Click 'Start Flash' Results: The flash will finish and your phone will have the TWRP recovery.

Case: You connect your Android phone to your computer, run the command 'adb devices' and your device is unauthorized. Even if you authorized the device. Requisites: Android phone, USB cable, computer with Windows and adb installed. Steps: Make sure the phone is not connected to the computer.  Remove the previous authorizations given into the phone. Kill the adb server. Remove the key files. Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable. Run the command 'adb devices'. In the phone, accept to give the authorization. Results: When you run the command 'adb devices', it will show your devices with the status 'device' instead of 'unauthorized'.

Case: I'm in a WhatsApp group and I want this group to play a unique sound so it can be easily identified.   Requisites: WhatsApp is installed on an Android smartphone and you have a group to configure. Steps: Open the group and click the 3 dots. Access to the group information.   There, go to 'Custom notifications'. Now you can activate the custom notification for the group.