Here are some of the best posts from your Digital Grandparent. We make every day technology comfortable for baby boomers – or for anyone else.
Professional bookmakers take on Apple and other tablet computers. Who will win the consumer wars?
Save $1000 on home entertainment.
Should cell phones be permitted on commercial airlines?
You missed clean out your computer [...]
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Automatic birthday reminders online and FREE
Birthdays – we all have ‘em. We all have to remember other people’s — and what a hassle that is for me. I found a perfect solution — FREE! There’s an online site I’ve used for a year that sends you automatic reminders of birthdays you want to remember.
Drop in to Birthday Reminders and take [...]
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Apple, Microsoft and Notion Ink – what is a tablet?
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the trade show that debuts all kinds of electronic gadgets, toy, and equipment for consumers happens in Las Vegas every January. Despite a troubling economy, pundits say 2010’s show has a record number of new companies demonstrating their products. Attendance, however, may lag. But “tablet” computers will draw attention.
What the [...]
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CES-electronics for baby boomers in 2010
Let’s take a quick look at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, before it opens in Las Vegas and see what might be coming to consumers in 2010. Baby boomers are often early adopters, since we have some discretionary income and resources, and, of course, free time. But baby boomers, while we buy electronics and like [...]
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11 cool websites to share with children
Here are 11 cool places on the Web to take your favorite children – maybe your grands? You can explore together and find FREE entertainments, games, stories and time passers for children and adults to share.
Every Video Game – Here you’ll find not every, but tons of old video games, playable online, free. With or [...]
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Christmas Holiday Ideas for Baby Boomers
Want to stuff some stockings for some old duffers like me? Well, head over to these websites for a kick of nostalgia and spend a couple bucks making a baby boomer think back to the good old days.
Perry Mason on TV – read, then rent from Netflix or Amazon
Hula Hooping magazine
or a [...]
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Essential Secrets of Successful Webmasters
How many websites are there? Nearly uncountable. How can a webmaster be visible and compete? Webmaster have to be in the know. Latest tricks. Current secrets. Those are the keys to attracting visitors and making some money.
Being a webmaster or webmistress isn’t easy. They think about content, arrangement, programming, graphics, and traffic. Advice abounds, but [...]
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Baby boomers seek dream house online
With the real estate market slowly, painfully recovering in some locales, there are a number of people creeping back into buying mode. It’s a great time to consider second homes, vacation cabins — whatever. There’s a pretty cool website where you’ll find tons of information about any neighborhood, house, city or town. It’s called Zillow.
Zillow [...]
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Is EVDO 3G for non tech baby boomers?
EVDO? What’s that? EVDO, or 3G, is how to have Internet anywhere you go or anywhere you live. Need to be connected? Go Blackberry picking, get Blue Tooths (teeth?) or jump opn smart phones. But if you want somehting bigger than a phone that’s connectible anywhere, here’s EVDO, 3G for you to mull over.
EVDO is Evolution Data Only/Evolution Data Optimized [...]
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FREE date reminders online
Want some of your brain space back? Dump all those dates-to-remember like grand kids’ birthdays, son’s anniversary, and your partner’s annual physical. What a hassle that can all be! Here’s an elegant solution — FREE!
Drop in to Birthday Reminders.com and take a few minutes to set up a FREE account. Then set up your dates.The [...]
