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Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group

Coming Attractions
Local Phone at (941) 866-1676

 Updated: Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Next Regular Meeting
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Using The Internet for Investing
with Vinny LaBash







Current Calendar

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for directions and a
 sample meeting schedule

The Internet can appear to be an inexhaustible source of information for investors. Years ago, before the rise of online discount brokerage houses and financial information services, the only source of good data was the traditional full-service brokerage house. Investors had no other realistic choices when it came to selecting stocks. Analyzing companies was a task beyond the abilities of the ordinary investor.

Eventually, government agencies, news services, stock exchanges, and myriads of other financial entities created thousands of global Websites with up-to-date information. Investors armed with computers and modems have immediate access to more data than ever before in the history of investing.

Online investing provides more than easy access. Lower commissions, efficient execution, and sophisticated online tools are available to anyone who wants them. Individuals can even buy government Treasury Bills online.

The August SPCUG meeting will feature a demonstration of some of the more useful online investment tools. Even if you never trade online, it’s a good thing to know how to access information that may affect your financial future.


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Upcoming Presentations

August 4, 2010 Using The Internet for Investing with Vinny LaBash

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Presentations at Previous Regular Meetings

  Column on right shows meeting attendance  
July 7, 2010 New Google Search Tools 178
June 2, 2010 The Other Wireless 147
May 5, 2010 Adding Your Old Music to a PC 190
April 7, 2010 How to Protect Yourself from Existing Threats 219
Mar. 3, 2010 SendOutCards with Steve & Marti Owen 226
February 3, 2010 Windows 7 with John Chait, Vinny La Bash and Bill Crowe 262
January 6, 2010 The Best Way to Backup Your Computer with Gene Barlow 222

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Average Attendance for 2010 -

206
Dec. 2, 2009 Holiday Social - Silent Auction 192
Nov. 4, 2009  Computer Security with Sgt Neil Scully 264
Oct. 7, 2009 Smart Computing with Lindsay Albers 206
Sept. 2, 2009 Verizon with Bob Elek 176
August 5, 2009 Best Buy presents Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit, with Jason Smith 158
July 1, 2009 ProShow Gold with Barney Sack 119
June 3, 2009 Computer Problems and Solutions, with our own “Computer Power” Team 260
May 6, 2009 Discount Computers - In Your Computer Now & Coming Soon 230
April 1, 2009 Comcast Internet Service 210
March 4, 2009 Freedom Scientific 231
February 4, 2009 Curing What Bugs You! with Lori Landis 231
January 7, 2009 Backing Up Your Hard Drive with Gene Barlow 273

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Average Attendance for 2009 -

212
December 5, 2008 Holiday Social and Election of Officers 224
November 5, 2008 Who is the PC Refurbishing Project 224
October 1, 2008 Quicken Your Money 213
September 3, 2008 Computer Myths & Legends and Quiz Show with Great Prizes 228
August 6, 2008 Basic Computer Maintenance, Protection and Problem Resolution with George Whitesell 214
July 2, 2008 Computer Ergonomics with Dr, John Chait 156
June 4, 2008 Identity Theft w/Sgt. Neil Scully Sarasota Co. Sheriff’s Dept. 241
May 7, 2008 Corel Painter X with Paul Jtineant 237
April 2, 2008 Coming to a computer at your house with Vinny LaBash 257
March 5, 2008 User Group Relations (Barlows) 270
February 6, 2008 Muvee autoProducer 6 & Invisus PC Services 268
January 9, 2008 Comcast 283

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Average Attendance for 2008 -

238
Dec 5, 2007 Holiday Social 225
Nov. 7, 2007 Verizon FiOS and Broadband 240
Oct. 3, 2007 Smart Computing 240
Sept. 5, 2007 What's New and Improved with Windows Vista  w/ Bill Crowe 240
Aug. 1, 2007 Discovering Your Computer w/Adam Richter of Computer Pros 240
July 11, 2007 Panel Discussion 236
June 6, 2007 Identity Theft – Sarasota Sheriff's Dept. 225
May 2, 2007 Corel 225
April 4, 2007 Insight into Banking Safely - Landmark Bank 264
March 7, 2007 Getting Ready for Windows Vista 293
February 7, 2007 Users Helping Users 252
January 3, 2007 Users Helping Users 252

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Average Attendance for 2007 -

244
Dec. 6, 2006 Holiday Social 252
Nov. 4, 2006 Vince Maffeo - Comcast - Happening Now & Coming Soon! 256
Oct. 4, 2006 Bob Banta - Explore Your Roots - Basic Genealogy. 238
Sept. 6, 2006 Dave Gerber - his favorite FREE downloads and Websites. 238
August 9, 2006 George Whitesell - Review of the Beta versions of Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Vista. 238
July 5, 2006 Panel Discussion with a question and answer format. 301
June 7, 2006 No show (Dave Gerber & Forrest Paradise did a "Bits & Bytes" On the Road Show, at the last minute.) 300
May 4, 2006 Smart Computing – Marcy Gunn 301
April 5, 2006 FastStone- Wren 301
March 1, 2006 Panel Discussion with Dave Gerber, Forest Paradise, Lloyd Lininger, John Mackey, and Bob Harris. 270
February 1, 2006 Discount Computers - Amelia & Doug Manning 328
January 4, 2006 George Whitesell will discuss computer backups and security 333

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Average Attendance for 2006 -

280
Dec. 7, 2005 Holiday Social 341
Nov. 2, 2005 Whittles Picks - Dave Whittle 283
Oct. 5, 2005 Life Journal - Ruth Folit 234
Sept. 7, 2005 Trend Micro presented by Mark Lewis 256
Aug. 3, 2005 George Whitesell will discuss Computer Networking, Backups and More. 241
July 13, 2005 Panel Discussion 237
June 1, 2005 Delta Insights (Silent Sword) - Cameron Hunt 273
May 4, 2005 Lexmark - Chris Spero & Dave Gerber 283
April 6, 2005 Comcast (New Look) - Leonard Gomez
 WebEyes (and more) - Dave Gerber
345
March 2, 2005 User Group Relations – Gene Barlow 319
February 2, 2005 Corel - Wes Pack        Corel User Group Special pricing 206
January 5, 2005 Microsoft - Matt McCann 341

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Average Attendance for 2005 -

280
December 1, 2004 Holiday Social & Silent Auction 315
November 3, 2004 Smart Computing – Marcy Gunn 308
Oct. 2004 Blue Squirrel - Sheri Paddock 276
Sept. 2004 Hyper-Threaded processors and more - George Whitesell 233
August 2004 Net Fulfillment Technologies - Serre Murphy 264
July 2004 Corel - Robert MacDonald 239
June 2004 Question Please! - SPCUG Panel of Experts 256
May 2004 Voice Factor Dragon NaturallySpeaking Bundle - Henry Elam 287
April 2004 Intel’s new technology - Dave Whittle 274
March 2004 PowerQuest – Gene Barlow 388
February 2004 A Utility Software & Shareware Demonstration 403
January 2004 Trend Micro presented by David Perry 350

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Average Attendance for 2004 -

299
December 2003 Holiday Social – All User Groups & Election of Officers 356
November 2003 Express Ink and Microsoft Office System Sneak Preview 376
October 2003 Comcast and Office Depot 290
September 2003 Voice Factor - Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 7 308
August 2003 Panel Discussion II 251
July 2003 Panel Discussion I 204
June 2003 AgeSpan & Think Tank Wireless 270
May 2003 How to Manage and Work with Digital Images - Bill Westerhoff 330
April 2003 Photoshop 7 presented by Mike Mcnaughton 307
March 2003 3D Album, muvee, iSeeMedia presented by Dave Whittle 336
February 2003 PowerQuest & AccessData -  Gene Barlow 337
January 2003 IRISPen II presented by Sharon Rump 357

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Average Attendance for 2003 -

310
December 2002 Holiday Social & Election of Officers

276

November 2002

Microsoft Holiday 2002 & Smart Computing Magazine

397

October 2002

Band-in-a-Box

304

September 2002

AgeSpan  & Safe Village

285

August 2002

Chuck Mason presents Digital Photography

237
July 2002 Alpha Five Version 4.5  & JR Inkjet Universal refill kits 225
June 2002 Smart Computing Magazine 273
May 2002 PKWARE 242
April 2002 MGI Software & Dr. Scott Walker, Optometrist 341

March 2002

Power Quest

329

February 2002 Corel presents WordPerfect® Office 2002 479
January 2002 Microsoft-Windows XP 356

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Average Attendance for 2002 -

312

December 2001 Holiday Social & Election of Officers 279
November 2001 Quicken 2002 378
October 2001 Ulead 336

September 2001

Techsmith's Snagit & Thumbs Plus

251

August 2001 Microsoft 282
July 2001 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - Online Investing 215
June 2001 Adobe 300
May 2001 The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook  328
April 2001 PhotoSuite 4.0 and VideoWave 4.0  364
March 2001 PowerQuest & JR Inkjet Universal refill kits 323
February 2001 Corel 358
January 2001 Microsoft & Analytical Software 372

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Average Attendance for 2001 -

315

December Holiday Social & Election of Officers 344
November 2000 Intuit (Matt McCann) presents Quicken 2001 395
October 2000 Wizcom Presents 344
September 2000 Voice Pilot Presents - PAL & Hear-Say and Hear-Look 300
August 2000 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional 268
July 2000 Ontrack/Mijenix - Suite 2000, Fix-It 2000 & Zip Magic 274
June 2000 Comcast Cable Modems and Adaptec GoBack 274
May 2000 PhotoSuite III & VideoWave III from MGI 337
April 2000 Power Quest with Partition Magic 390
March 2000 User Group Promotions with Quicken 2000 467
February 2000 Visitalk and Analytical Software 447
January 2000 Adobe with Photoshop and Acrobat 463

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Average Attendance for 2000 -

358

December 1999 Holiday Social & Election of Officers 464
November 1999   L&H with Speech Recognition and Translation Products 397
October 1999 Enfish Tracker Pro and GTE DSL 405
September 1999 MGI with PhotoSuite III and VideoWave II 331
August 1999 Corel with WordPerfect Office 2000 283
July 1999 Microsoft with Office 2000 430
June 1999 JASC with Paint Shop Pro and Quick View Plus 345
May 1999 Norton 2000 from Symantec 374
April 1999 Trend Micro - PC-Cillin 6.0 Anti Virus Software 337
Mar. 1999 PowerQuest and Dell Computers 425
Feb. 1999 Quicken and Analytical Software 443
Jan. 1999 APC - American Power Conversion 430

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Average Attendance for 1999 -

392

Dec. 1998 CHRISTMAS SOCIAL AND SILENT AUCTION 464

Nov. 1998

Corel with CorelDRAW8 and Print Office and Aladdin Systems - FlashBack and Private File

324

Oct. 1998

3Com-USRobotics and Republic Bank with CoolBank for Kids

288

Sept 1998 Symantec and SystemWorks 352
August 1998 Cybermedia and Alps Electric - Dry Ink Printers 280
July 1998 Microsoft Windows98 and Comcast Cable Modems 399

June 1998

QuarterDeck with CleanSweep and ViruSeeep

318

May 1998 Micrografx - Webtricity 2 Sneak Preview Tour '98' and IBM - Via Voice 373

April 1998

Tripplite - UPS and Surge Protectors and
Goldmine Software - Goldmine 4.0 Workgroup Contact Manager

339

March 1998 Microsoft - IE 4.0, Expedia Streets 98, Microsoft Greetings Workshop Deluxe and Analytical Software - National Parks on CD-ROM 506
February 1998 PowerQuest. - Partition Magic and G&A Imaging - PhotoRecall 442
January 1998 Intuit, Inc. - Quicken 465

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Average Attendance for 1998 -

379

December 1997 CHRISTMAS SOCIAL AND SILENT AUCTION 442

November 1997

Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 and CorelDRAW 8 - Soon to be released

437

October 1997 Borland International, Inc. / JBuilder and
Data Depot, Inc. / PC Clinic/PocketPOST
296
September 1997 Design-Intelligence / iPublish and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 325
August 1997 Republic Bank and askSam 294
July 1997 WebTV and Juno Free Email 310
June 1997 282
May 1997 404
April 1997 316
March 1997 356
February 1997 Intuit (TurboTax) and Power Quest 394
January 1997 Parsons Technology and Power Quest 386

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Average Attendance for 1997 -

354

December 1996 CHRISTMAS SOCIAL AND SILENT AUCTION
November 1996 Broderbund and Comcast Cable TV
October 1996 Microsoft - Internet Access and CyberFlix
September 1996 Cybermedia
August 1996 McAfee and SOFLEX
July 1996 McAfee and Ringling Multimedia
June 1996 Quarterdeck (Gary Saxer)
May 1996 Netline Communications - Internet Provider and 7th Level
April 1996 StreetSmart - Stock Tracker and ACSF Internet Service Provider
March 1996 Broderbund - TBA and Dragon Systems - DragonDictate
February 1996 Intuit - TurboTax and Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
January 1996 Novell - Perfect Office and Parsons Technology - Personal Tax Edge
December 1995 Holiday Social, Election of Officers and the Silent Auction
November 1995 Microsoft Windows - Suite and Knowledge Adventure
October 1995 Microsoft Windows 95 and Broderbund
September 1995 Parsons and Systems Compatibility - Outside In

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