Check out this great article by Alexis Brion regarding accessible mobile telephones for seniors:

Telephone design for seniors

An Australian website also provides a senior-friendly phone: http://seniorphone.com.au/

A mobile phone designed for seniors.

I stumbled upon a piece of software known as “Eldy” recently, and I was very impressed!

It is similar to Big Buttons in the way it makes useful computing tasks simple and intuitive to access:

Eldy is a great piece of free software for seniors!

I think that this software is fantastic for those seniors and other computer users who do not wish to learn about more advanced computing tasks.

Big Buttons is not as self-contained as Eldy and is more of a pair of training wheels in the sense that a user of Big Buttons will still have to ride the bike in order to move forward (i.e. know how to save a document in a word processor and use the ‘back’ and ‘forward’ buttons in the Internet browser). Eldy is more like a motorised wheelchair, to follow this analogy.

I recommend that you try Eldy and Big Buttons and see which is more useful for you!

Download Eldy by clicking here and following the links.

Download Big Buttons by clicking here.

Are you tired of repeating the same basic instructions over and over again to your grandparents? What about your parents? Are you just tired in general?

It’s time to wake up!

Big Buttons

With Big Buttons you can take the stress out of teaching the elders of your family clan how to use a computer/ the Internet… and give them the jump-start they need. They will thank you for it, and thank you many times over with e-mails to you!

Imagine waking up and seeing an e-mail from your grandfather, telling you how proud he is of you… EVERY DAY.

Imagine checking your e-mail late at night and finding a forwarded e-mail from your grandmother of some flowers and some cute animals jumping around. Why did she send this to you? Because she can thanks to you!

Find out more and get this big ball rolling without delay by clicking here.

CD, case and instruction booklet

For all you young’uns out there who haven’t yet shown nanna & grandad how to use a computer, please take the following two pieces of advice very seriously:

1. Be ashamed

2. Be very ashamed

Of course there are exceptions, but by and large our grandparents have done a very good job seeing to the survival of their children and grandchildren over the past decades. Without them, there wouldn’t be any young’uns at all… and of course, there would be no computers or Internet either!

The benefits of showing nan & pops how to use a computer are immense:

1. You can share photos with them
2. Communicating to others on the Internet can be a great cure for boredom
3. They can save money by not buying the newspaper every single day
4. They don’t have to wait in line in a bank and risk catching swine flu or being caught in a terrorist attack

… and the list goes on.

Think back to how your grandfather showed you how to shoot a gun or your grandmother showed you how to bake a cake. Repay that debt! Sharing is caring!

Get granny online!

Have you ever heard of TED.com? This site has hundreds of short speeches delivered in high quality video format by the world’s most influential and respected academics, professionals and people in general.

Take a look at the following (to play the video hold the pointer over the horizontal triangle and click with the left button on your mouse).

Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position — and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.

Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate everyone’s actions — and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.