BEST OF THE WEB
 TV Bytes TV Show Theme Songs |
You'll find all the hallmarks of a great downloadable goodies site at this repository of TV theme music in .AU-format. TV Bytes greets you with a colorful screen and comments from the webmaster, Patrick Kenny. At the bottom of the home page, a table of categories awaits your pick: drama, comedy, cartoons, children's shows, Westerns, action/sci-fi...even commercials. Got a favorite that's not here? Check back every now and then; TV Bytes listings are updated weekly. Or drop Kenny a line and he'll do what it takes to dig it up. Samples here come not only from the shows themselves, but from CDs of theme songs; if there's a difference between the versions, Kenny posts both of them.
If you're after a strong jolt of nostalgia or are looking to developing your own site of downloadable gems, make it a point to visit TV Bytes often.
This site is down at the moment, due to copyright issues, they hope to be back soon
 Ender's Realm Graphics for WWW Developers |
The Web is exploding. As a result, many sites are springing up that offer downloadable graphics to dress up home pages: bullets, icons, background textures, and so on.
Ender's Realm Graphics not only has all those gizmos -- and links to sites for the gizmos it lacks -- but it looks like a Web designer's page. It shows off its wares at every point along the way. Bulleted lists at Realm Graphics aren't set off with black dots and hollow squares, but rather with miniature works of art such as three-dimensional arrows, diamonds, starbursts, and stickpins. The backgrounds of Realm Graphic's pages are neither dull monochrome nor hideous party-colored exercises in designer self-indulgence, but smoothly tasteful backdrops for webmaster Andrew Soncha's clear notes and menus.
Some of the graphics here are completely original; the rest have been modified to make them better for use on the Web. My favorites are the backgrounds, because when you click on a background, you see what Soncha (a.k.a. Ender) calls a TextureView page -- a full-sized window with tiled background and overlaid text and graphic elements of various colors. You can see how your own page will look and choose contrasting colors accordingly. On my last visit, over 330 backgrounds, 200 bullets, 130 buttons, 150 icons and lines were represented. Nearly all the downloadable goodies here are free and do not require that you include a tag line, logo, or pointer back to Realm Graphics if you use them. The exceptions are larger icons and those related to Ender's Realm itself. Realm Graphics seems to be driven by the kind of wide-open generosity of innovation that made the Internet the great resource it always has been.
Stroud's Consumate Winsock Applications |
The CWSApps List is the ultimate one-stop download site
for the latest and greatest software on the Internet.
Comprehensive file listings, ratings, and extensive reviews for the hottest Windows 3.x/95/NT applications are just a few of the many goodies to be found on this site. It's been a pleasure to watch this site develop and grow over the years, and we wish Mr. Stroud continued success.
This is the way that it should be done!
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| 4. Hubble Space Telescope Pictures |
This site is a treasure trove of beautiful, presentation-quality astronical images (GIF, TIFF, and JPEG stills, even MPEG movies). Clearly, the Hubble Telescope has outgrown its painful pre-repair early history.
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Gerd's Midi Pages |
You don't have to be a musician, or quite made up your mind how you felt about MIDI -- the de facto standard for encoding synthesized music. Check out Gerd's MIDI Pages, you may be a convert. If you're a musician, or just someone whose tastes in music range from classical to TV show theme movie music, you owe it to yourself to stop in at webmaster Gerd Reichinger's Vienna site. You'll find a ton of MIDI files here. They're all available as compressed (ZIP) collections by category, or as individual files from the linked FTP site.
| 6. Jumbo! Shareware Archive |
This site is home to nearly 25,000 shareware programs, easily located using a nice search engine. All the newest stuff (for PC, Mac, OS/2, and Unix) is here, plus some vintage items. Information about each program includes not only the file's size but whatever text documentation the developer has provided.
| 6.(tie) Webcorp: Multimedia Resources |
Here you'll find historical speeches in RealAudio format(including the Nixon audio library), multimedia, pictures (GIFs, including a portfolio of New Orleans cemetery images), even some audio commentary. This site demonstrates that providing downloadable files can be an interactive experience.
| 8. Art History Server |
This server hosts 16,000 images unavailable elsewhere online, mostly from the Mediterranean basin but also some others (including survey of Western art, prints, even stills from Leni Riefenstahl films). It is extremely comprehensive.
| 9. Virtual Shareware Library |
A powerful search engine gives easy access to all programs. Almost all platforms, including Mac, PC, Amiga, and Unix, are represented. The very useful software profiles/reviews on 100-plus programs are currently available to all, but will eventually be accessible to members only. On the other hand, membership is free.
| 9.(tie) Terry Gould's Home Page Graphics |
Gould has compiled a library of buttons, icons, lines, and more for Web page development, many not available elsewhere. The site has a nice interface and very nice organization.
| 9.(tie) Project Gutenberg |
It's staggering: hundreds of online versions of printed books. Text files are always available in TXT or HTML format, making them valuable to all kinds of researchers. Note: Because copyright law restricts the works selected to those out of copyright, the contents are pretty much limited to older classics.)
| 12. SITO [formerly OTIS] Home Page |
This is a capital-A "Art" page. The images are not by any means the usual types. Some executable works of art (e.g., made with Macromind Director) are available, as well as other more conventional electronic media.
| 13. Index of PERL/HTML Archives |
Plain and unadorned, this site is nonetheless the reference for CGI/PERL and HTML coding. Includes links to other sites with collections of scripts (and documentation), as well as links to individual scripts for specific purposes.
| 14. alt.binaries.pictures Image Server |
An unusual but quite effective interface shows thumbnails of the images available (organized by category), which you can view in full as well as download. The files here are ever-changing, since they're taken from recent uploads to the alt.binaries.pictures Usenet news group.
| 14.(tie) Anthony's Icon Library |
Anthony has a large collection of WWW icons and body backgrounds, plus a good list of links. The interface is clean and unassuming, which might make you think there's not much content -- not so!
| 16. Rob's Multimedia Lab |
This site features lots of multimedia categories, providing links to other multimedia sites. On-site are plenty of GIF, AU, MPEG, ANIM, FLI, QuickTime, MOV, and AVI files. File descriptions are minimal, though the filenames are pretty obvious.
| 17. Sandra's Clip Art Server |
This site provides local copies of clip art originating elsewhere, which makes it an ideal one-stop clip-art shop. The interface is plain and the descriptions minimal.
| 18. Daniel's Icon Archive |
The Icon Archive has icons for building Web pages. It provides plenty of links to other sites (not only for icons, but also for other HTML design elements, FAQs, and tools).
| 18.(tie) Graphics Utilities Site and Version FAQ |
Here you'll find an index to sites dispensing graphics software, grouped by platform (DOS, Mac, Windows, Win95, X Windows). Brief notes are provided on the current versions. The page has an odd but functional look -- a sort of HTMLized version of the familiar FTP directory listing.
| 20. Matt's [CGI/PERL] Script Archive |
Matt has collected about a dozen CGI/PERL scripts for popular actions (guest book, random link generator), plus a Misc. Scripts package, available singly and in a variety of compressed formats. Not all-encompassing, but this archive is an excellent starting point for learning about CGI and PERL scripts.
| 21. FreeArt Images for HTML |
HTML developers will like the attractive icons, bullets, rules, and more found here. Note that while developers can use the images freely used, they must include an active link to this site.
| 21.(tie) Image Finder |
This site has an ingenious forms-based front end for the extensive image archives at wustl. (A U.S. mirror of Image Finder is available as well.) The form asks you to select a particular filename, image category, or description, and returns the names of all matching files.
| 23. American Memory Collections |
This collection features pictures and sounds (even some movies) of historical figures and events. There are only about a dozen categories, but each category is covered well, and what's here is likely to be unique. American Memory is a project of the Library of Congress.
| 23.(tie) GARBO FTP Archive at Waasa |
This shareware and documentation repository is organized by computer type or subject. It includes a reasonably complete set of astronomical images, too, for which 17 mirror sites are available. Its interface is a simple FTP front end.
| 25. Census Bureau Home Page |
This is a fairly complete list of text files . The most interesting point of entry for a casual user is via the Subjects A to Z link, which groups the files in categories such as Aging, Computer Ownership, Minority-Owned Business, and Truck Use.
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