Are you choking on spam? Then SpamGobbler could be just the program you need.

If you are in the situation where you receive much more spam than valid e-mails, life can become tiresome. In
your e-mail program (e.g. Evolution or Thunderbird) the trouble is that you need to continuously maintain a
"blacklist" of spam sources so that the program can separate them from your valid e-mails, and new sources of
spam appear every day! Well, SpamGobbler changes all that! Instead of a "blacklist" you keep a "whitelist" or
"keeplist", and anything else is automatically defined as spam and can be deleted before downloading into your
e-mail program.

This new portable slideshow enables you to present photos or other pictures to your family, friends and work colleagues,
using any Linux computer or an Internet site if you have one. It is truly an "amateur photographer's companion",
enabling you to prepare your photos in a very short time, and to do it automatically.

The beginner in a foreign language sometimes (or often) needs to study alone without the aid of a teacher to give an
accurate model of pronunciation. If this is provided by electronic means, then all well and good. But if you collect
written data over the Internet for example, and it has no model of pronunciation at all, you (the beginner) can easily
get into bad habits of mispronunciation by simply reading the text in your imagination.

The Howsoft language Learning Assistant for Linux helps you to overcome this problem. You can collect data from
any number of languages and insert it into the program. You can then use Ubuntu's built-in speech synthesizer
("eSpeak") to pronounce the text with pauses between sentences or between individual words. You can also adjust
the rendering speed if necessary.

A great amount of repetition and memorisation by heart is fundamental to the success of initial (or even later) language
learning, and LLA is a perfect tool for this purpose, even if you have a teacher. As with all speech synthesizers, the
speech is not 100% natural, but the Linux eSpeak synthesizer is really not bad at all, and is far better than a vacuum!

This is an English/Portuguese course for the eSpeak synthesizer that can be loaded directly into the Language Learning
Assistant program above. Culturally, the course is oriented towards Portuguese-speaking Brazilians who are travelling
in England, but linguistically, it is reversible. Thus, those who want to practise their Portuguese in similar situations are
now free to do so with this version of the course (the original version, written for Windows, is not linguistically reversible).

Additionally, for those who wish to use the Language Learning Assistant with other languages or their own data, the
Traveller's Companion course serves as an example of various technical aspects of contolling the eSpeak synthesizer,
e.g. how to silence portions of written text, how to render individual vowels as they are pronounced in the alphabet, and
so on.

Disk Tree enables you to capture the subfolder and file names from any master folder attached to your
computer, such as one residing on the internal HD, external HD, DVD, CD, pendrive, etc. and to store this
name data in a data base. You are then able to search the data base for items much in the same way
as you would use an Internet search engine. Once found, you can retrieve the items physically by returning
to the identified sources.

Zap777 enables you to quickly change the permissions of any folder and its files, together with its subfolders and their
contents, on any Linux·formatted device (HD, pendrive, etc.) so that all users can read or write files or execute (run)
programs freely.

This Supermarket List program facilitates the production of a personalized list on paper, in any language,
mainly by its ability to sort up to 10 categories of products into alphabetical order.

Printing is done via the Firefox browser.

(You will find it HERE. To run it, you need to use the GOOGLE CHROME browser.) The main
advantage of using this latest web page editor is that you can introduce any number of a great
variety web fonts into your slides, without worrying about whether or not such fonts are installed
on your own computer or the computer used for presentation.

When your slides are ready in the form of web pages, just capture them as images using the
howsoft utility "Web2Pic" (see immediately below), or even in Photoshop itself, and put them into
Supershow Plus. That's all.

For futher details of this simple process, click on the "Supershow Presentation" link above.
To download the Supershow Presentation Graphics pack, click on the "Download" link here on
your right.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR LINUX USERS:

All the materials necessary for preparing and presenting a Supershow Plus public slideshow
are available here in the Linux section. However, unless you take your own Linux computer
with you to the place of presentation, it is unlikely that you will be using anything other than
a Windows computer for this purpose. In this case, you would use the Windows version of
the Supershow Plus app instead of the Linux one. However, there is nothing to stop you doing
all your preparation in Linux. Even if you decide to enhance your slideshow with Photoshop
bells and whistles, you can still run it from WINE with no problem.

The "further information" link to the Supershow Plus Presentation above will take you to the
howsoft Windows section. Whatever you read there applies just as much to Linux as to
Windows: just read "Linux app" for "Windows app".

This utility app simply converts a batch of web pages into images. Put your web pages into
a folder and provide an empty folder for the output pictures. Tell Web2Pic where the input and
output folders are, and click on a button. The web pages will be displayed one by one and
their images will be captured and saved automatically.

There are two options for the size of the output pictures: "full screen" or "Supershow Presentation
size" (994x738 pixels).

BorderIt MULTI enables you to put borders (frames) around your pictures.
There are 25 frames to choose from.

If you are clever enough to work out how to do it, you can even make your own frames.

To use this visual (WYSIWYG) editor, you do not need the slightest knowledge of HTML. You simply
design your page usng 3 types of "widgets": pictures, texts and hotspots (for navigation).

The standard production of a webpage is in the "MHT" format. An MHT file is a webpage where all
the data (including pictures) is contained within a single file. This is great for the actual preparation
of your web pages, since everything is easily kept together. Thereafter, you can convert them to standard
HTML format (with picture export) for use on the Web.

This demo shows you how easy it is to prepare a slideshow for public presentation, using tools
available at this site, and optionally in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop if you want to elaborate
further. The main tool for the presentation is the howsoft "Supershow PLUS" app that you will see
above. Just put it on a pendrive, together with your pictures, and away you go! When you get to your
place of presentation, you will, of course, require a data projector. But you won't need a special
"wireless presenter" device to use with the projector to pass from slide to slide at a distance. Buy
yourself an ordinary wireless mouse for general use (if you don't have one already), and use that
in your presentation!

Basic preparation of your slides can be done using the howsoft "webEd 4" application - on line.

This little program enables you to add up (or subtract) values in a way that is highly convenient, and is
particularly suitable for long lists.

How many times have you tried to add up a long list of values using a virtual calculator, only to find that
you suddenly make a mistake or get confused as to the values you have already entered? You then have
to do the whole lot again!

Using the AdderUpper program, you make a list of the values to be added first. You can make as many
mistakes as you like, since they can be easily corrected because they are displayed in front of you. When
your list of values has been entered correctly, you just need to click on a button to get the total.

Lists of values for addition can also be saved on the HD and retrieved by the program.