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Shut That Phone Up and Put it down

It is illegal in Australia (and most countries in the world) to drive and ride a vehicle while using a hand-held mobile phone. Mobile phone use can distract the drivers and riders from the driving task. Studies have found that … Continue reading

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FREE PDF Creator

Here’s a 100% free for personal and/or business use, 100% useful tool to create, and to some extent edit PDF files. I had to download the software and see for myself but this software is the real deal. Creating professional … Continue reading

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Format Factory Review

I was looking for a free tool that will convert a bulky MOV file to something much smaller so I can post it to a website. I got a tip from a friend that Format Factory will do the job … Continue reading

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Posting Binary File Via a Proxy Using PHP Curl

Don’t ask me why I had to do this, but at work today, I had the need to post files up to a remote server while running the php script behind our firewall. Basically, we needed to make files inside … Continue reading

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Getting Session Environment Parameters in Oracle

To display all environment variable values for a given oracle session, run the following code: begin FOR i IN 1..owa.num_cgi_vars LOOP htp.p(owa.cgi_var_name(i)||’ : ‘||owa.cgi_var_val(i)); END LOOP; end; The name of the environment variable and value will be displayed. To reference … Continue reading

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