Category Archives: Digital Dalai-Nana

Digital Tips, Tricks and Help for Baby Boomers and Grandparents of the World as told by a fellow Grandparent. Easy to follow instructions on how to use your computer, smartphone and tablets to make life easier and connect to your grandchildren.

Helpful Apps to Help You Find Your Phone

Helpful Apps to Help You Find Your Phone

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Have you recently misplaced your smartphone or perhaps accidentally had it stolen? Fret not! There’s an app for that! This app allows you to locate your gadget. You can also use it to find your spouse’s, children’s or even anybody’s phone or droid!

I, for one, often misplace my phone and searching for it took a lot of my precious time. So what I did is to look for a good app that I can conveniently use to help me locate my phone quickly! There’s a wide array of apps available on the market for Android and iOS. You can simply download and use just in case your phone gets stolen or has been misplaced.

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Home Elevator Lifts – Are Residential Elevators a Must Have?

Home Elevator Lifts – Are Residential Elevators a Must Have?

Okay, I am not quite ready to call myself “Elderly” and neither are you but I am thinking about how it will be best to change my lifestyle in preparation for getting older. I recently had two knees replaced and so now I am able to go up and down steps with little to no pain but prior to the knee surgery, climbing the two flights of steps into my home was exhausting and painful.

One of the items we considered was adding an elevator to our home. The Baby Boomers generation’s increasing desire to age in place is driving the concept installation of elevators or lifts in homes. Because of our generation’s contributions to science accompanied by technology’s rampant innovation, these residential lifts are becoming a desirable home amenity for us Boomers.

Just the thought of having elevators installed at our very own house sounded cool especially if I could program my own elevator music. But unfortunately, to have one installed at my home would definitely cost us a fortune. However, because of technological advancement we experience year after year, these machines are now quite a bit more affordable than two to three decades ago.  Read the rest of this entry

Baby Boomers and Technology Evolving

Baby Boomers and Technology Evolving

As a representative of the baby boomer generation, I am lucky to have seen and experienced the evolution of technology over the years. Technology’s ongoing advancements make almost everything more convenient these days. I’m still in awe at how the internet has changed the world in numerous ways – how it lets us connect with distant people, how we can explore and find new things we never knew existed until we see it on Google, how fast things spread and so much more!

Plus, I couldn’t imagine that life would be so much easier with the help of the cool gadgets available today. You can simply download a game, different apps ranging from social, photo to video sharing instantly and most of them are free of charge!  These gadgets are generally referred to as apps and are great on your mobile devices.  On the computer the different browser refer to them as extensions.

Instagram's Hyperlapse App

A new app that’s starting to create a buzz in the social community is Instagram’s Hyperlapse. I’ve seen a few awesome videos and read a lot of good reviews about it.

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Grandchildren Want Digital Connections

Grandchildren Want Digital Connections

Connecting with Grandchildren via Digital

Grandchildren want digital connections with their grandparents.  Are you staying current enough to be there – where ever that is – when they ask for it?  It used to be my space, then facebook, text, twitter, instagram and so on.  By the time we master it seems they have found something new.  So I am now finding something that allows me to connect with them and they know I am there for them.

I have hang outs with my 3 year old granddaughter so we can read a book together.  We also skype and facetime.  My eight year old granddaughter loves to do facetime and practice her charms.  My 13 year old grandson posts things to instagram and sometimes I see it.  My 11 year old grandson love food so he checks out my recipes and asks for special meals when he visits.  The 15 year old keeps me on my toes and teaches me what I need to know.

How about you?

Games for the 50+, Grandparents & Grandchildren Friendly Video 

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The right game environment offers both the connections around activity and adventure but also helps to bridge the digital differences between generations. Next time, we’ll talk about some surprising connections between 

 

Grandchildren Want More Digital Family Connections

11/4/12

A survey of almost a thousand UK youngsters reveals that they are fine with their parents and grandparents being on Facebook; in fact, they want more family connectedness on social networks. Here are more highlights from 

http://www.retirementhomes.com/library/5-digital-ways-to-connect-grandparents-with-grandchildren/“>5 Digital Ways To Connect Grandparents With Grandchildren

10/30/12

Every person starts off with four grandparents. Even so, it’s common that some or all grandparents may live many hours away. Precious time between these generations is sweet but often too short. But now technology provides Read the rest of this entry

SquareHub Family Network

SquareHub Family Network

A Private Family Network – SquareHub

Do you need a private way to communicate with EVERYONE in your Family – and no one else. There’s an App for that – SquareHub Family Network.   As a grandmother, I am in awe of the amount of coordination required to manage today’s busy family.  I am often asked to help in the pick ups or transfers or game day events.  When live gets complicated, clear communication is difficult and that is BEFORE you add in the element of teenage communication skills – with their grandparent, no less.

This nifty new app might  be just the thing to communicate with everyone we need to and not those we don’t.   SquareHub, a free iOS mobile app for sending private messages and photos, coordinating activities, and sharing those spontaneous moments of joy with just the family.

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SquareHub addresses the need to coordinate multiple activities each day while keeping personal information private. With SquareHub, every family member on the network can send instant private messages and photos. Parents can coordinate activities and kids can request a pickup or tell parents privately when they will be home. SquareHub replaces the inconvenience of multiple communication avenues—texting, phone calls and email—with the ease of a single app that all members can use.

Families with active teenagers, professional parents, divorced parents, and military families will love the privacy protection, efficiency, and virtual presence SquareHub brings to their daily communication. With SquareHub, families no longer have to think twice about sharing personal details like where everybody is, what everyone is doing and those goofy, memorable moments they want to share with each other.

 

Plus it appears to be a great planning tool for my brothers and I as we are coordinating help for our parents.  Add an element of fun and you have what appears to be a very useful tool.

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Did I mention it is FREE and PRIVATE?  I love that!