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Who would be interested in training? UPDATE : JAN 2024 : Training is now available! See the TRAINING page For the last 2.5 years, since the end of 2020, a poll has run here to determine the audience of Quickhash-GUI and the kind of users it typically has. I asked this because I was interested to know who typically uses it. It is perhaps no surprise to discover that of the 1K+ voters, the majority were individuals, downloading it for personal use. However, over 200 of the votes came from government or private industry votes. And this [...]

On the 29th May 2021, v3.3.0 was released for Windows, OSX and Linux. This included the Linux version in the form of a compiled binary, and a Debian package. A user kindly reported to me that the Debian package worked fine except that the libewf library file was not copied to the correct path, meaning the EWF (E01 forensic images) hashing capability that is new to v3.3.0 did not work unless the user manually messed around creating the path manually. As a result I have adjusted the Makefile of the project, and rebuilt the Debian package again. This obviously [...]

How to reduce AWS Web Hosting Fees for Non Profits, Charities, and Open Source Projects Introduction Are you running a website using AWS (Amazon Web Services) for a non-profit, charity, open-source, or some other kind of "for the greater good" cause and wondering to yourself "this is costing me a fortune!"? If so, then do read on. I created this website in AWS in 2016. At that time, I was fairly new to AWS, having played with it more casually prior to that and I was at the stage that I felt confident to host a website in [...]

Regular Quickhash-GUI users who have stuck with the product for several years will know that I have wrestled with various elements to draw a balance between the elements us open source developers often have, which is presenting our products as best we can but without it costing us a fortune. In 2016, I moved from Sourceforge to hosting on AWS. Back then, I was quite new to AWS and, like many of us, built a website using largely default settings with little thought to the future. After about a year I had learned a lot more and made some [...]

I need help from the QuickHash-GUI user base. In 2018, I launched a poll to try and determine how many of the users would want (and be willing to pay for) a code-signed version of the QuickHash-GUI executable. The poll suggested a significant percentage would, because they either worked in corporate IT where running unsigned software was tricky. Or they just valued code-signed software more than unsigned software. So, I bought a code signing certificate from DigiCert for $250 and made code-signed versions available to buy for £1.99. I made the money back, just, but not by a huge [...]

Last November I wrote (HERE) that I may have to cease developed QuickHash GUI for Apple OSX. The reasons why are in that article so I won't repeat them. Suffice to say, I've received a good number of e-mails since asking me to try my best to make sure that doesn't happen. It seems the program has a popular following on the OSX platform. Well, I have good news. These past few evenings I have managed to compile a seemingly functional 64-bit version of the currently stable branch of QuickHash GUI which is v3.0.4, for OSX. It certainly looks [...]

Development of Quickhash tends to be like buses. Nothing for a while, and then lots all at once. v2.8.4 was the last version prior to implementing SQlite. And it was a fairly stable release all-in-all and it pleased a lot of people; I got very few proper bug reports in that time, and instead most of the asks were feature requests. At the time of writing, about 150K people downloaded that version, and some people still continue to do so. It was the main download for about 145 days until v3.0.0 eventually made an appearance which included SQlite for [...]

I have had v3.0.3 of Quickhash nearly ready for release for several weeks now, but the reason for the delays are twofold. One problem is Apple OSX, and it's enforcement of 64-bit applications, which are surprisingly harder to compile than you might think. 32-bit is easy, but 64-bit is a fiddle using Lazarus. On the other hand, 64-bit on Windows and Linux is easy. 32-bit is the fiddle with those two. As it stands, whenever I compile the latest version, I have to compile it for 54-bit using Linux and Windows 64-bit operating systems. Then I have to launch [...]