Synalyze It!

ICC (color) profiles can be decoded now using the grammar you find on this page as well as a basic grammar for Audible (.aa) files.

A grammar for ELF binary files is on the way but needs some extensions in Synalyze It! which will be implemented in the next days.

Thanks to all users sharing their grammars for free!

Please consider providing your grammars also if they might be useful for others :)

All users noticing the bug when copying number elements with min/max values please download SynalyzeIt_1.0.3.2.zip

Enjoy your day

Andreas

The next version of Synalyze It! is almost done... I hope.

Please have a look at SynalyzeIt_1.0.2.6.zip and report any bugs or whatever you think.

The version will come along with some new grammars for mach-o files and others :)

Have a great weekend!

Andreas

Eventually Synalyze It! was released now also in the Mac App Store. Unfortunately the versions you find in the MAS and here on this site are not the same.

First, I had to remove some features due to MAS rules (synalyze shell tool and automatic online update as well as the automatic suggestion of grammars available on this site). Additionally in the version you get here are some fixes made while the version in the MAS waited for approval more than two weeks.

Hopefully I can keep both versions better on the same state in the future. 

Thanks again for all the positive feedback, version 1.0.3 is already in the works :)

Happy synalyzing!

Andreas

Since je ne parle pas francais very well I don't actually know what's been spoken in this french podcast of CocoaCast - could someone tell me more?

Localization of software can be really annoying so I wrote a Ruby script now to compare two UTF-16 encoded Strings files and a Rakefile that creates the German XIBs from the English ones using the strings.

The script is not yet really nice because of the redundant code but it does its job and tells me about missing strings in the localized version of the strings file.

Version 1.0.1 was just released and includes many enhancements and fixes. Please  report any problems you find :)

Happy synalyzing!

Andreas

Quite some time has passed since the last beta version was published. Fortunately this doesn't mean nothing happens in Synalyze It! :)

My plan is to release a version 1.0 by the end of this year that is stable and has some additional features not seen in previous versions.

If you have a look at http://www.synalysis.net/formats.xml you may notice that the page looks the same as http://www.synalysis.net/the-grammar-page.html but since it's XML plus a XSL style sheet it can be easily parsed by Synalyze It!.

This means you can get suggestions for available grammars when you open some file and install the grammar on your computer with just one click. Could it be easier than this?

Of course this will work also for grammars installed locally.

In order to collect more grammars there'll be also a publish button that allows you to send a grammar file via email (hopefully to me :).

There are some other features users asked for I'll try to implement for the first non-beta version.

Happy Christmas (or whatever you like)

When I started developing on the Mac, I was of course in the need of a capable hex editor. Even now there is no such comparable with what can be found on Windows. In the English Wikipedia, there is a useful Comparison of Hex Editors.

Since ordinary hex editing is not what I was looking for, I concentrated on the hex editors with "file structure view" (see second table on the Wikipedia page). If you're searching for a tool that disassembles machine code, this page is probably not for you while some of the applications do support this.

When I digged deeper and checked what the applications are really able to accomplish, only these products remained in my list (all on Windows only):

• 010 Editor
  
• Hex Editor Neo
  
• Hexplorer
  
• WinHex
  
• Hackman Suite
  
• Hex Workshop
• Hex Probe
  

Additionally should be mentioned DataWorkshop which has some nice ideas but is completely outdated - not able to open and process large files and not really intuitive to use.

On the Mac there are only PeekIt and iBored offering more than simple binary file editing, the others (Hex Editor, HexEdit, hexedit, 0xED, Bless, beye, Hex Fiend, MadEdit, wxHex Editor) all don't help you much to understand what's encoded in a binary file. For PeekIt you can write a plugin for file analysis if you're a developer. The good thing all Mac application have in common: they're free :)