Freeware from Marco Pontello downloads
PFCEx 1.02
Simple tool to extract info from AOL Personal Filing Cabinet (PFC) files. It generate a PFCEx.html file with all the URLs collected. Works also on corrupted PFC files, so it could be used as a rescue utility to recover favorites and other URLs!
TrID 1.56
Have you ever been in a situation where you don`t know what application can handle a file? Maybe because it`s without any extensions, or it just doesn`t make sense? This tool can help! TrID is a utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded rules, TriID has no such rules. Instead, it is extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way. TrID uses an XML-based database of definitions which describe recurring patterns for supported file types. You can help creating new definitions! Just run the TrIDScan module against a number of files of a given type. The program will do the rest.
TrIDNet 1.80
TrIDNet is the GUI-.Net version of TrID! Have you ever been in a situation where you don`t know what application can handle a file? Maybe because it`s without any extensions, or it just doesn`t make sense? This tool can help! TrIDNet is a utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded rules, TriID has no such rules. Instead, it is extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way. TrIDNet uses an XML-based database of definitions which describe recurring patterns for supported file types. You can help creating new definitions! Just run the TrIDScan module against a number of files of a given type. The program will do the rest. N.B. You need to download the TrID`s package (witch contains over 1600 filetypes defs) to use this program. See the homepage for more info.
MiniDumper 1.02
Simple tool to display an hex dump of the header (first 256 bytes) of a file. It`s designed with the non skilled PC user in mind, to provide a quick and easy tool to aid in searching assistance in a forum about a certain file. It takes just a mouse click to copy in the clipboard all the results and infos (plus the necessary UBB code for correct formatting) to allow a quick paste on the text box of a new reply on a forum.