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The Bitzi Bitcollider Utility

What it Does

Our Bitcollider is a small program you can run on your own computer to reliably identify and describe files on your machine. When run with a specific file as input, this program does two major things:
  • It examines the file, calculating a distinctive digital fingerprint, or bitprint, and taking note of some other identifying information that can be extracted from the file, like file length and the local filename.
  • It launches your web browser to do a lookup at our website, submitting this identifying information as the search terms.
At our website, you'll see what - if anything - others have said about your file: what it really is, where it came from, and what people think of it. You'll also have a chance to contribute descriptions or comments yourself. If your automatic submission included information useful to our database, that new information will be contributed to the database. You may choose whether this contribution occurs under your Bitzi screen name, or anonymously.

The Bitcollider includes no adware or other bundled third-party software.

The Bitcollider only initiates connection to our webserver when you activate it on a specific file. All of its communication occurs through your default web browser, where you can see all the data it submits.

Download

Choose the appropriate executable for your computer, and save it to a convenient place. (Or, if you have problems with these options on your computer, consider trying the preview release of our jBitcollider based on multi-platform Java.)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/ME/XP/Etc
    bc-setup-0.6.0.exe 538k (v. 0.6.0, b1020)
    After downloading, run this installer.

    OR: bc-setup.exe ( Bitzi Ticket Info )
  • Linux/Intel x86
    bitcollider-0.6.0 470k (v. 0.6.0, b1020), precompiled executable for Linux x86 machines (tested on Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1; remember to set the executable bit).

    OR: bitcollider ( Bitzi Ticket Info )

    Alternatively, at our Sourceforge Release Page, we provide RedHat/Intel RPM packages for the basic Bitcollider and a Vorbis plug-in.

    Note: The Vorbis plugins for RedHat require the Ogg/Vorbis libraries.

    See Bitcollider Source Code for code that can be compiled on other systems.

  • MacOS
    Currently, Mac OS X users must build the Bitcollider from the source tarball, and then 'bitcollider' is usable from the command line, as for Linux.

    (We would appreciate advice on the proper packaging of a precompiled bitcollider for easy installation and drag-and-drop use on Mac OS X.)

    A new alternative for MacOS is our jBitcollider based on multi-platform Java.

You may drag and drop a file atop the 'bitcollider' icon, wherever you saved or installed it, to perform a lookup, or you may invoke these programs from a command-line, with the filename as the argument.

See also Bitcollider Documentation.

More Info

A more detailed and technical description of the bitcollider, as well as full source code, is available here.

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