Postings

By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 3, 2003

Registration for March computer classes at the Elfers Senior Center, 4136 Barker Drive, will be from moon to 2 p.m. Tuesday. Classes include Computer I and II, Digital Camera and the Internet. For information, call (727) 847-1290.

Bob Capellini will demonstrate PowerPoint at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Greater Tampa PC User Group. It will be held at the Hillsborough Community College Brandon campus, Building 605, Room BTEC 103. For information, call Al Miller at (813) 685-6622, or visit www.gtbpcug.org.

Chris Reynolds will discuss Yahoo Messenger and talking to your friends for free at Wednesday's meeting of the Microcomputer Users Group. It starts at 6 p.m. at the Largo Public Library, 351 East Bay Drive. For information, call (727) 584-8489.

The Pasco Suncoast User Group will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hudson Library, 8012 Library Road. For information, call (727) 862-6932 or (727) 847-5991.

The Suncoast Linux Users Group will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Barnes & Noble, Westfield ShoppingTown Brandon. For information, check www.suncoastlug.org.

Gunnar Rivas will give a series of computer classes in English and Spanish at the Countryside Library, 2741 State Road 580. Classes include Windows XP, Saturday; the Internet, March 22; Word processing, March 29; Excel and financial programs, April 12; and new software, April 19. Classes in English will be at 10 a.m., in Spanish at 2 p.m. For information, call the library at (727) 669-1290.

Online registration is under way for the Tampa Bay Computer Society's Random Acts of Kindness Computer Repair Clinic. The clinic starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at 1510 Barry Road, Clearwater. Volunteers will diagnose problems with IBM-compatible computers and repair most of them on the spot. The clinic is free, but registration is required at www.synergypublishing.com. Call (727) 443-4433 for information.

Norm Goldman, editor of Bookpleasures.com, will conduct two workshops at the Gulfport Public Library, 5501 28th Ave. S, on book reviewing and the Internet. The first starts at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, and the second is at 1 p.m. March 12. For information, call the library at (727) 893-1133.

Tom Cone will demonstrate Alpha Five database software at the March 10 meeting of the Crystal River Users Group. It starts at 7 p.m. at the Beverly Hills Recreation Center, 77 Civic Circle. For information, check www.crug.com.

Joe Smith will demonstrate Intuit's TurboTax Deluxe software at the March 12 meeting of the West Pasco Macintosh User Group. The meeting starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Embassy Hills Civic Center, 9509 Palm Ave., Port Richey. For information, call (727) 849-5227, or visit hometown.aol.com/wespasmug/.

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