Posts tagged “hash” — Blog of independent game and app developer Matt Sephton. Featuring vintage Macintosh, game development, digital artwork, Japanese esoterica, video game reviews, hacks and tips, and much more. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/tag/hash/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:15:23 +0000 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:15:23 +0000 Jekyll v4.4.1 <p>I often need to calculate the hash of a file for verification purposes, to confirm that a download has completed successfully or that an ISO I have dumped from a CD is a correct match with known good dumps.</p> <p>I couldn’t find a nice easy to use app for this so I put together my own app. Download it here: <a href="https://github.com/sunjw/fhash/files/2302036/Hash.app.zip">Hash.app.zip</a> (version 1.3).</p> <p><img src="https://cdn.gingerbeardman.com/images/posts/hash-app.png" alt="PNG" /></p> <p>Features:</p> <ul> <li>Auto clear text field on each operation</li> <li>Finder “Open with…”</li> <li>Select file on first launch</li> <li>Drag and drop after window is open</li> <li>Single or multiple files</li> <li>Accepts many binary file types</li> <li>Resizable window</li> <li>Hold alt/option to only calculate quickest hashes (CRC32, XHH, MD5)</li> <li>Default is to calculate all hash types, including slower hashes (SHA1, SHA256)</li> </ul> by Matt Sephton Sun, 06 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2018/05/06/file-hash-calculator-app-for-macos/ https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2018/05/06/file-hash-calculator-app-for-macos/