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Postings

By Times Staff Writer
Published October 11, 2004

Charlie Vanderford will demonstrate Intel's Hyper-Threading technology at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Greater Tampa Bay PC User Group meeting at Brandon High School, Room 745, 1101 Victoria St. For information, call Al Miller at (813) 685-6622, or visit gtbpcug.org.

The Suncoast Linux Users Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hillsborough Community College Dale Mabry campus, Student Services Building, Room 108, 4001 Tampa Bay Blvd., Tampa. For information, check www.suncoastlug.org/

The West Pasco Macintosh User Group will meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First Christian Church, 6219 River Road, New Port Richey. For information, call 727 849-5227, or visit www.hometown.aol.com/wespasmug/myhomepage/club.html

Documentary producer and photographer Douglas Vance Daudt will teach two workshops at the Life Enrichment Center, 9704 North Boulevard, Tampa. Ybor Photo Safari will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and costs $49. Introduction to Digital Photography will be at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21 and costs $35. To register or for information, call 813 932-0241, or visit www.lifeenrichmenttampa.org

Shareware and free programs for OS X will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bay Area Macintosh Users' Group meeting at the Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive. For information, call Virginia Chilcote at 727 796-2929, or send e-mail to mousebytes@earthlink.net

Dave Cross, senior developer for education and curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, will demonstrate Photoshop with Illustrator CS at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Adobe Tampa meeting at Remington College, 2410 E Busch Blvd., Tampa. For information, check www.adobetampa.com and RSVP by e-mail to stacey@adobetampa.com

A "Computer Conference for Older Adults" will be held at 9 a.m. Oct. 19 at the Sunshine Multipurpose Senior Center, 330 Fifth St. N, St. Petersburg. Sponsored by the City of St. Petersburg Office on Aging, the conference will include workshops on topics such as Travel on the Internet, Introduction to Computers and the Internet and Digital Photography. The keynote speaker will be professor Nick Cox from the Stetson College of Law talking about Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft. The cost of the conference is $15, and reservations are due by Friday. Send checks to the City of St. Petersburg Office on Aging, 330 Fifth St. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. For information, call Nancy Skirchak at (727) 893-7102.

Registration is under way for beginning and advanced computer classes at the Cares Hudson Bayonet Point Enrichment Center, 12417 Clock Tower Parkway, Bayonet Point. In addition, the center is offering a special class, Creating Your Own Web Page. For information and reservations, call (727) 863-6868.

John Lubertowicz will give a presentation, Internet - Magic Carpet to Travel and Shopping, at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Hernando Computer Club meeting at 13400 Montour St., Brooksville. For information and class schedule, visit www.hcc.org/ or call 352 592-0070.

Computer clubs and other organizations are welcome to submit items for the Postings column. Events should be free or have only nominal charges such as to cover the cost of a meal and must be open to the public. The deadline for submissions is today for next week's Personal Tech section. Items can be sent to personaltech@sptimes.com

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