If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings across ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...

HxD is a freeware editor supporting disk, memory, and file hex editing, as well as a secure file deletion tool (called a “file shredder” by HxD). HxD’s webpage states the app works on every Windows OS ...

I've been using Hex Fiend, and while pretty good and FOSS, it still lacks in some of the above (especially in UI). Looked at Synalyze It! and while it looks pretty much perfect with some nifty syntax ...

Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

As a file editor, Disk Probe lets you make changes to binary files in much the same way you use a text editor to make a change to a text file. By paging through a file, you can find readable text, ...