Examples by Topic

Web & Computer Systems

 
Web & Computer Systems
get information about an IP address

18.0.0.1

get information about a URL

google.com

find a port assignment

port 80

get information about a notable computer

Apple II

ask about a characteristic of a computer

How fast was the processor on the Atari 400?

get information about a data transfer device

802.11n wireless network

compute a data transfer time

data transfer time 10GB, 6Mb/s

RAID

compute RAID capacities

RAID calculator

RAID5 4 drives 1TB

get information about a file format

.pdf file format

find programs that support a specified format

applications that support .gif

look up a Unicode character

U+00F8

specify a range of Unicode characters

unicode 8900 to 8915

specify a character by name

em dash

look at computer keyboard displays

english keyboard layout

compare computer keyboards

french keyboard, arabic keyboard

find information about keyboard use

keys used typing "valley forge"

US dvorak for left hand keyboard, us English keyboard "Danger, Will Robinson!"

find n-grams in a string

n-grams "it was the best of times it was the worst of times"

encode a string with the ROT13 substitution cipher

ROT13 "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

compute a hash code for a string

Adler 32 "inverse cosine"

MD5 "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Display Resolution

get data on a computer display format

VGA display

compare formats

WXGA, QXGA

compute display characteristics from pixel count

2.5 megapixel 300dpi display

Passwords

generate a password

generate a 12 character password

generate a set of passwords

generate 5 alphanumeric passwords of length 10

analyze a password

analyze password SMtt76!

password strength for qwerty2345#

password strength for bobJoeBill

CAPTCHA

generate a CAPTCHA for specified text

CAPTCHA Wolfram Alpha

generate a CAPTCHA using random text

CAPTCHA

convert between hex, decimal, octal, and binary

987 in hex

354 hex to decimal

101110000110111011 binary to octal

CIDR

calculate IP parameters using CIDR notation

CIDR calculator