G-code is effective, easily edited, and nearly ubiquitous when it comes to anything CNC. The format has many strengths, but space efficiency isn’t one of them. In fact, when it comes to 3D printing in ...

A computer file format in which all eight bits of the byte are used for data. Executable software (machine language programs), most word processing, database, spreadsheet and multimedia files are ...

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, ...

A new "security mitigation" tool from Microsoft can help take the guesswork out of opening Office 2003 files from people you don’'t know or aren't sure you should trust. The Microsoft Office Isolated ...

BANGALORE, INDIA : Microsoft Corporation Private Limited has announced its plans to make it even easier to obtain the documentation for its Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt). On February ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Microsoft released ...

Contrary to claims by the US Department of Defense that Office Open XML might lead to increased security concerns, vendor lock-in and backwards compatibility issues, Microsoft claims that OOXML ...

What would be the best way to read my data, strip the binary data, and return a record just like BufferedReader.getRecord () does (that is, a text line ending in CRLF)? I'm not worried about the ...