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Bingo Game
Are you a passionate player? Love Bingo? Wnat to play and practice for free? Want to learn how to create a Bingo Game? Here's one written in Delphi.

Metric Converter
1 Feet is how much Centimeters or Inches? Do you know that 1 pound is 16 ounces? You certainly know that 1 GB is 1073741824 bytes ;) How many times have you found yourself trying to convert one value to other? Too many! But not any more! Metric Converter is an useful tool for any kind of conversion - full Delphi source code!

Windows Shut Down / Restart / Log Off
Do you need to restart, log off or even shut down Windows frequently? How about 3 simple shortcuts to automate the proces? Full Delphi source code included: ExitWindowsEx with privileges.

1337 Elite Slang Converter
Elite or leet or 1337 is a geek talk - online slang. 1337 is hacker speak for "leet," which is an abbreviation of "elite." This term was derived from 31337 "eleet". Would you like to learn how to be cool and know how to talk 1337? Here's a full source Delphi application to help you be more geek!

Task Manager Clone
Task Manager Clone displays information about the performance of your computer and the programs and processes that are running on your computer. Use it to view process ID, view memory information or end a process. Full Delphi source code.

Reversi (Othello) Game
The object of the game is to own more pieces than your opponent when the game is over. Each reversi piece has a black side and a white side. On your turn, you place one piece on the board with your color facing up. Full Delphi source code!

Coins (Connect 4)
Coins (Connect 4) is a two-player game (or play agains the computer) in which the objective is to be the first to get four of one's own discs in a line. Try to be the first with four in a row! This version with source code in Delphi!

File Sharer
File Sharer allows to download and upload files from computers connected to Interntet by simply typing the host IP address in a web browser. Full Delphi source code included.

Easy Desktop
EasyDesktop is a menu which hides in the top left corner of your screen, with all the files and folders you have placed on your desktop listed. Instead of switching to your desktop, just run the mouse into the top left corner and everything on the desktop can be accessed just by clicking. Full Delphi source code included.

Boggle Generator
Boggle game is played using a grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. The problem to solve in this Delphi example is to generate a 5x5 Boggle table with as high a score as possible, given a certain dictionary.

Sudoku Solver
Sudoku is a logic-based number placement puzzle. A deceptively simple game of logic, Sudoku is puzzling players all over world. If you need help solving your next Sudoku puzzle - why not look for a computer generated solution - the one written using Delphi!

Gee Player - MP3 Music Player
Looking for another MP3 player? Maybe the one developed in Delphi you can extend with your own ideas? Look no more - Gee Player is a full featured music player and recorder.

Help! Lost USB Toolkit
"Omnia mea mecum porto" or "All that is mine I carry with me". Is all that located on a USB stick? What if you loose it? You hope someone will return it to you? But how will they know who the stick belons to?An idea: create a simple application located on your USB, make it run as a default option when the stick is inserted. If the stick is found the application (written in Delphi) displays a message containing your address and a "please send me my stick" message.

Connect 4
Connect Four is a two-player game in which the objective is to be the first to get four of one's own discs in a line. Try to be the first with four in a row! This version with source code in Delphi!

Pixelated Gravity
Gravitation is a natural phenomenon by which all objects with mass attract each other. Gravity is the force that causes two particles to pull towards each other. If smaller objects are pixels and a bigger object is your mouse pointer - when you move the mouse the pixels should follow. Wanna see how that would look coded in Delphi?

Torus Drawing
A torus, in geometry, is a surface having genus one possessing a single "hole". Torus is generated by revolving a circle in three dimensional space. Want to see how torus looks like? Want to learn how to animate it using Delphi code?

Wii Launcher
Ah the boring Windows [insert your version] shell! Looking for a fresh looking application, file, web site launcher for you? The one that looks and feels like Nintendo Wii? Here's one developed in Delphi!

Star Wars Screen Saver
Looking for your own personalized Star Wars Screen saver - maybe the one written in Delphi? Personalize your start wars screen saver: specify the text that scrolls, set the number of stars (dots, spheres, blocks), set the color of the space, set the stars speed ...

AI Neural Network
An artificial neural network, or a neural network (NN), is a computational model based on biological neural networks. It consists of an interconnected group of artificial neurons and processes information using a connectionist approach to computation. Want to see an application built in Delphi trying to produce an "AI" (artificial integigence)?

SFX Notepad
Ah that boring Notepad! If typing ascii codes could be any more fun ... I would stop using IDE to code PAS files ;^) Ha! SFX Notepad: while you typing into it you see characters flying into their place with a nice drop down effect. A Fancy Delphi application, that is!

MAC Spoof
Need to change the MAC adress of a network card? Here's a handly little tool that allows spoofing - changing the MAC address on your network card. Mac Spoof will reset the NIC when done to prevent requiring the user to reboot.

Application Launcher
Looking for an alternative to Windows Start Menu? Want to have a better control of a group of applications you want to launch-execute-start? Application Launcher provides instant access to all your applications! Easy to use and built with Delphi!

Critters Evolve!
This application is a visualization of evolution of string critters. A humorous but powerful tool for simulating evolution - with some great-to-learn-from Delphi code!

Barstool Philosopher
I'm drunk from programming in Delphi :) Here's an application that resides in the system tray. When you click it, it shows/hides the main form. The main form is a little drunk man, who generates random "drunk philosophy" using Markov chains.

Mouse Eyes
Argh! Where's my mouse? Ah look at the eyes .... there it is! ;)) Mouse Eyes is another mouse cursor follower. Mouse eyes idea is indicating which direction to look in to find your mouse cursor.

Random Colors Piano Bar
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers. Imagine steel strings are color bars, imagine every color producing a different random sound .. and we have a new entry for the Fancy Delphi Application Contest.

Placing 8 Queen's on a Chess Board
In chess, a queen can move as far as she pleases, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. A chess board has 8 rows and 8 columns. The standard 8 by 8 Queen's problem asks how to place 8 queens on an ordinary chess board so that none of them can hit any other in one move. "8 Queens" is a Delphi application hosting a chess board to try for yourself and a button that will give you the possible solutions.

Morse Delphi Box
Morse code is a method of coding messages into long and short beeps, often transmitted using continuous wave. This little application written in Delphi will play morse codes as you type characters into the console-looking window.

Delphi Contest: Creating Fancy Applications
If you are like me, you like experimenting - creating pieces of Delphi code just to learn something new and create something interesting. If nothing else, to amaze your coworkers / family / yourself. Here's a Delphi contest for you: create a fancy Delphi application or just a piece of Delphi code! For Fame and Glory.

Don't Miss: CodeRage 2007 - Free Online Virtual Conference by CodeGear
CodeRage by CodeGear is the first virtual conference for developers! Delphi developers should not miss it!

Who Wants to Be a Delphi Millionaire?
Ever wonder what "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" might look like if there were only Delphi programming questions? Take my quiz and find out how you would do.... (there are no prizes, the $ amounts only indicate difficulty).

Holiday Gift Ideas for Delphi programmers
Everything you need to know about what every programmer desires, needs, wants...

Borland Delphi no More - It's CodeGear Delphi!
It's official: Delphi is no longer "Borland Delphi", it's "CodeGear Delphi"! For a long time, the main page of the delphi.about.com (this) site was "About Borland Delphi Programming", then I turned it into "About Borland ("Devco") Delphi Programming", today (11/14/2006) the *new name* is "About CodeGear Delphi Programming"!

Add an Easter Egg to your Delphi application
Looking for some hidden fun in Delphi? Find out what are Easter Eggs and how to add them to your applications. Find out how to add cheat codes to your Delphi games.

How to Build your First "Hello World VIRUS"
Who said programming cannot be fun? Let's create a simple "memory eater" that executes itself an unlimited number of times - thus consuming all the Windows memory :) Ah, ok. This Virus will also free the memory it occupies.

Top 10 Fun Reasons why you Should Stop Using Delphi, now!
I don't know about you, but I've seen too many newsgroups/forum posts that state/ask something like "Is Delphi dying?" or "Delphi has no future", and similar.

Celebrating 10 Delphi Years (with a chance to win a Delphi book)
02/15/1995 is the date remembered as the birth date of Borland Delphi. For this special occasion we'll award one developer with a copy of "Delphi for .NET developers Guide"

Delphi history – from Pascal to Octane
This document provides concise descriptions of Delphi versions and its history, along with a brief list of features and notes. Find out how Delphi evolved from Pascal to a RAD tool that can help you solve complex development problems.

Drawing Snowflakes All Over your Desktop Screen
Amaze your co-workers: *Snowflakes* application randomly draws and moves snowflake images over your Desktop screen. While having some fun, learn how to create transparent, top-most and caption-less forms that randomly move over your screen.

Hackers and Crackers and Bears -- Oh My!
Understanding the Difference between Hackers and Crackers

Bride of the Fun Side: Delphi
Useless Data-Aware Components, Dis-Integrating the Enterprise...

How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Read how to write Unmaintainable Code and laugh.

Humor: The Evolution of a programmer
How code gets more sophisticated while we get old.

The coming of age of Delphi
Fun article about the age of Delphi.

The Fun Side of Delphi
Writing Useless Components in Delphi.

The Daily WTF
The Daily WTF presents scary code examples, updated daily. If you are looking for a good laugh, visit The Daily WTF site. Note: you just need to make sure your own code is not somewhere there :))

You might be a programmer if...
Politically incorrect views on programmers by a programmer.

Why the name "Delphi?"
Delphi started out as a beta codename for a closely guarded skunkworks project at Borland: a next-generation visual development environment for Windows based on Borland's Object Pascal programming language...."