Archive for July, 2007

SEC Helps You Check Up on Your Financial Advisers

The Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website is a service of the US Securities and Exchange Commission which no investor should overlook.
Using the SEC’s Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website you can search for information about investment adviser firms and their key personnel. Investment advisers must file a Form ADV to register with the SEC. [...]

How to Use MD5 Checksums

MD5 checksums allow you to verify that the software you download hasn’t been changed by a sinister malware person or virus.
Security geeks love things like this. And because they do, the rest of use should, too. As an extra layer of security, any person who wishes to verify the software they download from [...]

Real Estate Ad Dollars Moving to the Web

“Papers losing real estate ads to Web“, on today’s MSNBC.com, describes the movement of real estate classifieds from newspapers to the web. It’s one of those trends that should have been expected all along.
Reportedly, younger agents are more likely to make the move to online advertising and spend more of their ad budgets on [...]

Two Domains are Not for Sale

Not for Sale
I reviewed the list of domains Wheatworks has taken out of its domain name pantry and has listed on the Financial Domains for Sale page. There are some great financial domains on the list such as MidCaps101.com and FinancialFormulary.com.
But today I removed two domains, Wild-Wicked-Web.com and WildWickedWeb.com, from the list of domains [...]

Real Estate Software Updated

Real Estate Calculator Suite, version 4.7.20, was released this morning by Wheatworks.com. This is a minor update with a few changes which enhances the real estate software’s visual appeal on the Vista operating system. However, it still runs on the entire spectrum of Windows® operating systems including 95, 98, 2000, XP, NT4 and Vista.
The [...]

Financial Domain Names for Sale

During the last decade of writing financial software and selling it on the Internet, Wheatworks has accumulated a healthy portfolio of more than 90 domain names related to financial services. They’ve been sitting on the shelf, so to speak.
Today I read an article on CNN.com titled, “Hot property — Web domain names“. It [...]

How to Install Software on Vista

I’ve answered a few questions recently about installing Wheatworks’ financial calculators on Microsoft’s Vista operating system.
As a graphical “here’s how to do it”, I’ve added an How to Install Wheatworks’ Financial Calculators on Vista support page. The screen shots and step-by-step instructions clearly show the one extra step someone with a standard user account [...]

Worst Mortgage Stats since the Great Depression

Another “not since the Great Depression”-type comment appeared in the Washington Post. “Personal Finance: Mortgage mess? Mop it up,” an article about the “troubles in mortgageland,” reports troublesome foreclosure and delinquency stats from the first quarter of 2007 and then states, “those are the worst mortgage default statistics since the Great Depression.”
The article quotes [...]

15 Website Calculators for $139.95 USD

The MoneyToys™ collection of web site calculators has grown to 15 with the addition of the new Payment Calculator. The Payment Calculator calculates a loan payment when a website visitor enters the loan amount, interest rate and term. It’s a simple, small financial calculator that one can place just about anywhere on a [...]

Wheatworks Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

Wheatworks is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! It’s hard to say what the next ten years will hold, but if they’re like the first decade, they’ll be filled with great new products, even more clients and customers, and a lot more fun!