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As you all know, various great resources are available on the .net. However, most of them are very hard to find - especially, if they haven't been placed on locations like 'music.com', 'games.com', 'programming.com', etc. In this section, I try to dig up, in my opinion, some very great resources which everyone should take a look at. I'm not saying, all links apply to all people, but if you have an interest in the specified area, you should not miss one of the sites I review below. Most link-collections are just a bunch of URLs mixed with a one lined comment about its contents. With my collection I try to do the opposite. I have a limited amount of links, but all featured are very usefull and with a long description thus you don't have to visit a web site you don't think sounds interesting.

Every link opens in its own window when you click on the small house icon.

 

music

The Heliotrope Project
The Heliotrope Project http://www.heliotrope.dk/ mailto:heliotrope@heliotrope.dk
253 visitors have tried out this site

Great music from a Danish techno artist. This man, Morten Selmer, is able to mix various types of styles into his tracks in such a unique way. Every time you pick up one of his tracks, you will get a new experience. This official site features a complete list of released tracks; you are even able to download sound clips of a vast majority of them in the well-known MP3 format.

You are furthermore able to order all his released CDs from this site. Browse around and pick up titles for the ones you want, then send a simple mail including these to Heliotrope and he'll send you all needed information on where and how to pay for them.

 

programming

Torry's Delphi Pages
Torry's Delphi Pages http://www.torry.ru/ no email available
202 decided to give it a shot

This site features a lot of Delphi components and is often updated multiple times a week. Everyone is able to publish their components on this site and if you have made any components for Delphi, it would be worth the trouble since this site has a lot of regular visitors. Unfortunately, you are not able to search for a specific component, but luckily all featured components are divided into various categories to make it easier to find a file with some given properties; e.g. if you want to find a component able to show a Print Preview, you might want to look in the 'Print VCL' category.

Torry's owner, M. Peresada, is sometimes evaluating the released stuff. If he finds it valuable, a special hot icon (looking like a bomb) will appear next to the component. If you see this, make sure you don't miss it - even though a component doesn't fit your current needs you should download it. It might come in handy later on.


Delphi Free Stuff http://www.delphifreestuff.com/ no email available
248 folks wanted to get nice stuff

Brad Stowers is surely one of the greatest Delphi programmers around for the moment. His site features all kinds of very, very well-written components for almost any version of Delphi and C++ Builder. His site has been build on a couple of good philosophies, some of them being ["The component must be distributed as freeware."] and ["The component must include full source code (rare exceptions may be made)."].

Brad is updating his site regularly (although not for the last couple of months) and maintains a large support forum for all of his components and applications. If you have a question regarding one of these, write a message to the forum and you will usually have an answer within a couple of hours.

Delphi Free Stuff