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Personal Tech

Postings

By Times Staff
Published September 4, 2006


Peg Eggleston will give a presentation, "Lights, Camera, Capture: How to Buy and Really Use a Digital Camera," at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Greater Tampa Bay PC User Group meeting at Brandon High School, Room 129, 1101 Victoria St. For information, call Jo Ann Brawner at 813 626-7869 or visit gtbpcug.org.

The Pasco Suncoast User Group will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hudson Regional Public Library, 8012 Library Road, Hudson. Call (727) 847-5991 or (727) 856-2123.

The Suncoast Linux Users Group will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Barnes & Noble, Westfield Brandon mall. For information, visit www.suncoast lug.org/. The group will demonstrate free software Sept. 16 as part of Software Freedom Day. Events will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Museum of Science and Industry, 4801 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, and from 7 to 11 p.m. at Mirta's Art Gallery and Coffee House, 119 S Hyde Park Ave, Tampa. For information, visit www.software freedomday.org/.

The Spring Hill Teaching Computer Club will offer a variety of classes this month, including Basic Windows XP; Genealogy; and Microsoft Office. Classes are at the Weeki Wachee Senior Citizens Center, Toucan Trail and Susan Drive. For information, visit www.shtcc.net or call (352) 686-7146.

Ted LoCascio will give a presentation, "To Use InDesign or Illustrator?," at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Tampa Bay InDesign Users Group meeting at the Art Institute of Tampa, Room 222, 4401 N Himes Ave, Suite 150, Tampa. For information, visit www.indesign usergroup.com/chapters/tampa.

Armand Ternak will give a presentation, "Currency Trading for a Living", at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Hernando Computer Club meeting at the Hernando County Shrine Club, 13400 Montour St., Brooksville. For information, visit www.hcc.org or call (352) 592-0070.

Computer clubs are welcome to submit items for this column. Events should be free and must be open to the public. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. today for publica-tion next week. Items can be sent to personal tech@sptimes.com.

[Last modified September 4, 2006, 06:07:16]


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