Reason against storing files in the database: The size of a binary file differs amongst databases. On SQL Server, when not using the FILESTREAM object, for example, it is 2 GB. If users need to store files larger (like say a movie), you have to jump through hoops to make that magic happen. Increases the size of the database. Is a simple-to-use OS X Hex Editor which will allow you to easily edit and analyze binary files of any size. Features enhanced support for many character encodings and enables you to interactively define 'grammars' for various file formats to speed up analysis and reduce manual decoding of files. Pro 1.23.4 macOS 55 mb. Pro is a simple-to-use hex editor which will allow you to easily edit and analyze binary files of any size. It features enhanced support for many character encodings and enables you to interactively define 'grammars' for various file formats to speed up analysis and reduce manual decoding.
Imagine.. you have a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files you have a specification for but don't want to decode them manually.
Have you ever looked at hex dumps and felt how hard it is to make sense of it? And to remember the meaning of all the bits and bytes?
Synalyze It! allows you to create a 'grammar' for your binary files interactively. Unlike in regular hex editors or viewers the files are interpreted automatically for you! Analysis of binary files has never been easier.
Additionally Synalyze It! is a full-featured Hex Editor for Mac OS X allowing you to edit files of unlimited size and interpret the bytes with dozens of text encodings.
Essentially it's a modeling tool for arbitrary file formats that is being used by software developers and data stream experts as well as in computer forensics.
The grammars are stored as XML files and contain all the structures that may occur in a file of a certain format, just like XML schemas. It's even possible to inherit structures from others (like in OO languages) so you don't have to repeat for example a length field that appears at the beginning of each structure.
Synalyze It! is an extremely flexible and useful tool for viewing binary file data. It enables you to easily apply a structured format to your file bytes and convert them into meaningful displays of data.
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Synalyze It! provides formatters for common binary types like ICC, PNG, TIFF, WAV, ZIP and dozens more. That alone is useful but, if you're a programmer creating a custom binary file format, Synalyze It! is priceless.
With Synalyze It!, you can create custom data formatters for your personal binary files. Instead of struggling with cryptic lines of hexadecimal, you can view and label data values as floating point or integer, signed or unsigned, with any byte length. Your files can even modify the formatting, allowing you to create settings on the fly to variably view your data.
If the standard formatting tools are not enough, you can write formatting scripts using Python or Lua. I quickly got ambitious and was soon in over my head exploring Synalyze It!'s features. When I emailed a question to the developer, the technical support was outstanding. I was sent a complete solution to my problem that also served as an advanced Synalyze It! tutorial.
I doubt that I will ever fully exploit the potential of Synalyze It! but the value I've received is already many multiples of the price I paid.
John Goodman
For some well-known formats you can download grammars here. Matching grammars are suggested automatically when you open a file.
Right now you can download Synalyze It! for Mac OS X and give it a try. In case of questions or problems please give me feedback. The latest changes can be tracked here; stay tuned also on Twitter.
If you like Synalyze It! consider buying the Pro version in the Mac App Store.
The Pro version has even more useful features beyond hex editing.
Hi,
I just bought the pro version of Synalyze, and I am very glad I did. Thank you for taking the time to bring this excellent tool to life.
I'm the author of an open-source program called SleepyHead, which is used for reviewing CPAP machine data (used in Sleep Apnea treatment), and already I'm wishing I discovered Synalyze a lot sooner, as an awful lot of binary format hacking is involved thanks to the manufacturers not releasing documentation.
I particularly like being able to use expressions in the length fields. I spent ages looking through the example grammar and scripts only to find I didn't even need them thanks to this feature. (It pays to read the manual first. ;)
Keep up the good work!
Regards
Mark Watkins
Mac Hex Editor for Professionals
There are some hex editors for Mac available but only Synalyze It! allows to create a grammar for automatic file decoding in a specialized grammar editor.
- Simply open the file you want to analyze
- Create an empty grammar
- Select bytes in the hex editor and add an element or structure to the grammar using the context menu
- Enhance the grammar in the grammar editor
Bomber crew 6092 – a strategic simulation game.
Other special features of Synalyze It!:
- Supports various encodings like ASCII, EBCDIC, UTF-8 or UTF-16 (see ICU for all supported encodings)
- Lets you easily see if a file is compressed with the histogram view
- Opens even huge files ultra fast by loading only the visible part of a file
- Hex editing works with the same mouse and keyboard commands like in common text editors
In case you need a tool specialized in disk editing, I recommend to check out iBored.
Recent updates:
2020-01-05: Added grammar for Commander Keen 1-3 saved games
2019-09-13: Version 1.23 released with dark mode support
2019-05-16: Added grammar for Ducati Data Analyzer dda files (thank you, Jack!)
2019-02-17: Added grammar for Atari Lynx .lnx files (thank you, Brian!)
2019-02-14: Added grammar for uImage files on Linux (thank you, Lukas!)
Older additions to the web site can be found here…
Last Updated on September 27, 2019 by Linguist 1 987.
ShottyBlur – Layered Screenshots 1.3
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Description
Take a layered screenshots with a vibrancy effect.
– Grab of all windows or an active app only.
– Hide ShottyBlur completely before a new screenshot by pressing Ctrl-H shortcut.
– Every window of a layered screenshot place on a transparent background.
– Capture windows which has a vibrancy effect.
– Direct drag screenshots into graphic app to continue work with them.
– Organise your screenshots – save them as Shotty documents.
– Main shortcuts are customizable.
– Save selected layers of multi-layered screenshots by dragging it into Finder.
– Export as Photoshop PSD document with all layers.
Smart zipper pro 3 7 0. – Export as PNG, JPEG or TIFF with a single layer.
– Drag and drop screenshots into Finder to save as PSD or PNG documents.
– You can take layered as well as non-layered screenshots with an appropriate option.
– Use pinch zoom and smart zoom with trackpad. Inspect transparency on a checker or white background.
• Hide Until New Shot – an option to temporary hide ShottyBlur completely until you make a new screenshot
– Activate it by pressing Ctrl-H shortcut
• Stability improvements
Information
Additionally Synalyze It! is a full-featured Hex Editor for Mac OS X allowing you to edit files of unlimited size and interpret the bytes with dozens of text encodings.
Essentially it's a modeling tool for arbitrary file formats that is being used by software developers and data stream experts as well as in computer forensics.
The grammars are stored as XML files and contain all the structures that may occur in a file of a certain format, just like XML schemas. It's even possible to inherit structures from others (like in OO languages) so you don't have to repeat for example a length field that appears at the beginning of each structure.
Synalyze It! is an extremely flexible and useful tool for viewing binary file data. It enables you to easily apply a structured format to your file bytes and convert them into meaningful displays of data.
Synalyze It Pro Binary File Analysis 1 231
Synalyze It! provides formatters for common binary types like ICC, PNG, TIFF, WAV, ZIP and dozens more. That alone is useful but, if you're a programmer creating a custom binary file format, Synalyze It! is priceless.
With Synalyze It!, you can create custom data formatters for your personal binary files. Instead of struggling with cryptic lines of hexadecimal, you can view and label data values as floating point or integer, signed or unsigned, with any byte length. Your files can even modify the formatting, allowing you to create settings on the fly to variably view your data.
If the standard formatting tools are not enough, you can write formatting scripts using Python or Lua. I quickly got ambitious and was soon in over my head exploring Synalyze It!'s features. When I emailed a question to the developer, the technical support was outstanding. I was sent a complete solution to my problem that also served as an advanced Synalyze It! tutorial.
I doubt that I will ever fully exploit the potential of Synalyze It! but the value I've received is already many multiples of the price I paid.
John Goodman
For some well-known formats you can download grammars here. Matching grammars are suggested automatically when you open a file.
Right now you can download Synalyze It! for Mac OS X and give it a try. In case of questions or problems please give me feedback. The latest changes can be tracked here; stay tuned also on Twitter.
If you like Synalyze It! consider buying the Pro version in the Mac App Store.
The Pro version has even more useful features beyond hex editing.
Hi,
I just bought the pro version of Synalyze, and I am very glad I did. Thank you for taking the time to bring this excellent tool to life.
I'm the author of an open-source program called SleepyHead, which is used for reviewing CPAP machine data (used in Sleep Apnea treatment), and already I'm wishing I discovered Synalyze a lot sooner, as an awful lot of binary format hacking is involved thanks to the manufacturers not releasing documentation.
I particularly like being able to use expressions in the length fields. I spent ages looking through the example grammar and scripts only to find I didn't even need them thanks to this feature. (It pays to read the manual first. ;)
Keep up the good work!
Regards
Mark Watkins
Mac Hex Editor for Professionals
There are some hex editors for Mac available but only Synalyze It! allows to create a grammar for automatic file decoding in a specialized grammar editor.
- Simply open the file you want to analyze
- Create an empty grammar
- Select bytes in the hex editor and add an element or structure to the grammar using the context menu
- Enhance the grammar in the grammar editor
Bomber crew 6092 – a strategic simulation game.
Other special features of Synalyze It!:
- Supports various encodings like ASCII, EBCDIC, UTF-8 or UTF-16 (see ICU for all supported encodings)
- Lets you easily see if a file is compressed with the histogram view
- Opens even huge files ultra fast by loading only the visible part of a file
- Hex editing works with the same mouse and keyboard commands like in common text editors
In case you need a tool specialized in disk editing, I recommend to check out iBored.
Recent updates:
2020-01-05: Added grammar for Commander Keen 1-3 saved games
2019-09-13: Version 1.23 released with dark mode support
2019-05-16: Added grammar for Ducati Data Analyzer dda files (thank you, Jack!)
2019-02-17: Added grammar for Atari Lynx .lnx files (thank you, Brian!)
2019-02-14: Added grammar for uImage files on Linux (thank you, Lukas!)
Older additions to the web site can be found here…
Last Updated on September 27, 2019 by Linguist 1 987.
ShottyBlur – Layered Screenshots 1.3
Synalyze It Pro Binary File Analysis 1 238
Description
Take a layered screenshots with a vibrancy effect.
– Grab of all windows or an active app only.
– Hide ShottyBlur completely before a new screenshot by pressing Ctrl-H shortcut.
– Every window of a layered screenshot place on a transparent background.
– Capture windows which has a vibrancy effect.
– Direct drag screenshots into graphic app to continue work with them.
– Organise your screenshots – save them as Shotty documents.
– Main shortcuts are customizable.
– Save selected layers of multi-layered screenshots by dragging it into Finder.
– Export as Photoshop PSD document with all layers.
Smart zipper pro 3 7 0. – Export as PNG, JPEG or TIFF with a single layer.
– Drag and drop screenshots into Finder to save as PSD or PNG documents.
– You can take layered as well as non-layered screenshots with an appropriate option.
– Use pinch zoom and smart zoom with trackpad. Inspect transparency on a checker or white background.
• Hide Until New Shot – an option to temporary hide ShottyBlur completely until you make a new screenshot
– Activate it by pressing Ctrl-H shortcut
• Stability improvements
Information
- Details:
