2007 July 30 | Wheatworks Blog: Financial Matters

Archive for 30th July 2007

How to Use MD5 Checksums

7/30/2007, 5:39 am

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 Wheatworks Software will be able to do so using MD5 checksums.

To help with this, we’ve just posted a new page, “How to Use MD5 Checksums“, on our website.

MD5 checksums are the results of one-way calculations that turn a bunch of data (a software program in this case) into a shorter fixed-length value.

Because it’s almost mathematically impossible that two programs will produce the same MD5 checksum values, you can know for sure whether the software you downloaded to your computer has been altered between the time it was released by Wheatworks and the time you received it.

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Real Estate Ad Dollars Moving to the Web

7/30/2007, 5:27 am

“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 their personal web sites, blogs, and are “taking different approaches beyond newspapers.”

Reflecting on the agents who have commissioned their own personalized, promotional real estate software from CustomCalcs.com, it’s difficult to determine an age bias. Wheatworks’ promotional software is used by new and old agents and brokers. And it’s definitely a different approach beyond newspapers. Learn more about Customcalcs™ personally branded real estate calculators for real estate promotions.

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