Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Stock quotes import into Excel

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I use Microsoft Excel to maintain my portfolio positions in a spreadsheet. One convenient feature about using Excel is that there is a free plug-in available that allows you to download the latest stock and mutual fund quotes directly from the web into the spreadsheet. So you do not have to spend the trouble to […]

Is Wi-Fi’s 128-bit WEP secure?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Wi-Fi, the technology which allows you to surf the net wirelessly without the cumbersome ethernet wire connection (or the modem connection), is a very convenient feature which many used everyday without much thought. However, as the signals are transmitted through-the-air, it is possible for anyone in the vicinity to eavesdrop into the connection. To prevent […]

Founder and lead developer of singapore

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

“The founder and lead developer of singapore is Tamlyn Rhodes.”

While searching around for a hosting service, I came across one interesting web application named “singapore“. I was intrigued by the name and decided to look further. What I found was singapore is “an open source, multilingual, template-driven image gallery web application … quite a mouthful! […]