Nostalgia is a funny thing. If you experienced the early days of video games in the 1980s and 90s, there’s a good chance you remember those games looking a whole lot better than they actually did. But ...

Let’s say you use an SD card-base portable audio recorder for work – doing an interview, perhaps. Things go well until one day, you turn the recorder off before stopping the recording. Without ...

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 ...

beyond piecing together bits and bytes to prove a case. Used in the right context, a hex editor can actually uncover Microsoft Windows and application vulnerabilities that you may not have thought ...

The PC world has plenty of hex editors; does it really need another? Our first thought was probably not, but that was before we’d spent a little time with the fast, feature-packed and extremely ...

Editing a firmware file in a hexadecimal, or hex, editor can allow you to modify a device's behavior. For example, you can change the speed of manufacturing equipment or enable hidden features on a ...

I wanted to know how to get a system file, uxtheme.dll, to cut loose and allow for unsigned Windows XP themes (so I can install the Zune Final theme*). I found this on a forum somewhere: Got this ...

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 ...

A program that displays every character in a file in hexadecimal notation. Also called a "binary editor," hex editors are used extensively in program development to view the actual content of a file, ...