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• At last! A computer for the elderly!

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  Oh goody !!! Soon I’ll be “emailing” and “chatting away to family and friends”. That’s what the BBC’s Valerie Singleton (right) promises, having gone from one extreme to the other. She was once one of the presenters of the Beeb’s Blue Peter program for kids. Here is the original post: At last! A ...
  10 hours ago

• UK Firm Launches Computers Designed For The Elderly

  
  StarterTech.com — Authority: 425
  If you are an elderly person in the UK, and you have stayed away from computers due to your fear of them, a new computer has launched that may be just what you are looking for. The BBC had a report today about a new line of computers called SimplicITy that is directed squarely at the elderly.  According a recent ...
  10 hours ago

• Im talking to myself. Does this mean Im ready for the pensioners PC?

  
  Technology — Authority: 602
  Hey, did you hear? Someone who makes money selling stuff to old people has launched a new computer just for old people. It’s been completely stripped back to basics so all they need to worry about is turning it on, and then they’re away – surfing the web, reading emails, whatever!Um… okay. Doesn’t that ...
  12 hours ago

• Valerie Singleton wants more Facebook friends, promotes Linux for the elderly

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
  We’re not really sure whether to consider this patronizing or genuinely useful . Former Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton, who is herself at an advanced age now, has partnered with Wessex Computers to create a custom Linux desktop targeted at easing the elderly into the use of a computer. Dubbed SimplicITy (the ...
  18 hours ago

• Sewing Patterns : Simplicity Patterns : Misses Tops

  
  Danvillegirl Sewing Diary — Authority: 120
  I have begun the fitting process for my next top. I am participating in Fayes Month of Tops sewing project. I have various skirts and pants in neutral colors and having a variety of tops increases the wardrobe possibilities. Thus I am focused on completing as many as possible this month. My next top is this one: ...
  18 hours ago

• Valerie Singleton wants more Facebook friends, promotes Linux for the elderly

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 461
  We’re not really sure whether to consider this patronizing or genuinely useful . Former Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton, who is herself at an advanced age now, has partnered with Wessex Computers to create a custom Linux desktop targeted at easing the elderly into the use of a computer. Dubbed SimplicITy ...
  19 hours ago

• SimplicITy ‘over 50s’ PC is so un-PC

  
  PC Pro blog — Authority: 553
  This morning I had a press release emailed to me about a new range of systems by simplicITy computers to be launched today by Valerie Singleton, her of Blue Peter and ’sticky-backed plastic’ fame. She was also presenter of the BBC Money program for many years.What got me fuming was that this range of computers ...
  20 hours ago

• Links Im Loving...

  
  HOLES in my Shiny Veneer — Authority: 98
  Usually I just post links I like to my Tumblr , but Ive found that I dont have a great way to organize that yet. Here are some that I dont want to get buried there: From Zen Family Habits, "5 Ingredients. 5 Minutes. 5 Meals" If ever there was a menu plan for me, this is it! Some day Ill get real brave and ...
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• Birdfeed Looks To Attract Tweets As The Go-To Twitter Geolocation App

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Green and Frugal Gift Giving

  
  Modern Gal — Authority: 492
  With most people focused on the upcoming holidays, many people are turning to gift giving and thinking about how to make this holiday season more eco-friendly and wallet friendly.  As I’ve posted about many times, I have  never really liked the extreme commercialization of the holidays and welcome any opportunity ...
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• Success, then disruption, then failure

  
  The Hannibal Blog — Authority: 121
  You can be too good at something, too successful, so that somebody else, an upstart, undercuts and topples you, turning your success into failure. That’s because of a fundamental asymmetry between your view of the world and your upstart’s. And it makes you vulnerable. It should be immediately obvious how ...
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• Easy, frugal gifts for babies and young kids

  
  Living Well on Less — Authority: 124
  If you watched the adorable slideshow I posted Friday, then you know that I have five nieces and nephews ages 6 and under. With that many kids on your list, Christmas can easily become overwhelming. Last year, I cashed in MyPoints on a $50 Amazon.com gift card and bought toys for all of them. But it was exhausting ...
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• The Brain Surgeon, the Janitor, and the Six-Inch Pizza

  
  The Rat Race Trap — Authority: 504
  I saw this story in an Early to Rise newsletter a few weeks ago.  It’s from Tom Monaghan, the founder of Dominoes Pizza. “One night, most of my employees didn’t show up, and I didn’t know whether to open or not. Someone said, ‘Why don’t you just cut out the six-inch pizzas?’ We had five sizes, but ...
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• Simple Innovation

  
  Blogging Innovation — Authority: 142
  by Stephen Shapiro Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of "The Little Prince", once said: "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away." This is a brilliant quote because it describes the challenge many innovators face. Too ...
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• it’s all about the benefits

  
  eskimon — Authority: 419
  I couldn’t resist sharing this great example of how to bring a brand’s core benefit to life. As we’ve seen before , Cadbury Dairy Milk is all about little moments of everyday happiness. This short film brings the simple beauty of that benefit to life, with every single frame delivering ‘a glass and a half ...
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• Christmas Lights — Get The LED Out

  
  The Non-Consumer Advocate — Authority: 127
    The following is a reprint of a previously published column. Enjoy! As the Non-Consumer Advocate, I usually recommend for people to buy used or not buy at all. (I follow  The Compact, a buy nothing new movement.) But I am going to break from my normal stance and suggest a new purchase: LED Christmas ...
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• Bulletproof Business Blueprint

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 157
  Many people dream of successful entrepreneurship?of being your own boss with no one to answer to but yourself. Many people dream of the financial freedom that comes with owning a highly profitable business, especially an online business that allows you to work anywhere, at any time. Many people dream of the ...
  2 days ago

• [How-To] Block Visitors From Certain Countries To Your Website

  
  Technofriends — Authority: 140
  If you are someone who is in the process for setting up a website or an offering specifically for users from a certain country, you need to deny visitors from all other countries ( except the country which you are targetting). The denial process is pretty simple and straight ( involving modifications to your .htaccess ...
  2 days ago

• Lan Yin "Eiko" Tsai: an inspiration

  
  Urban Simplicity — Authority: 135
  This is an inspiring story. For the past 26 years Lan Yin " Eiko " Tsai has been biking 150 miles to benefit MS research...and she does it on an old single speed while wearing heels and a dress. With all my rants and raves about the usefulness and importance of a bicycle, and by discourses on my aches and pains ...
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• Eddie Munster on a Bike

  
  Urban Simplicity — Authority: 135
  The image was found here . Ya gotta love a bike made out of chains...and is that a windshield made out of a spiderweb...this would have made a great Halloween post. In the rare instance that you dont know who Eddie Munster is/was, click here .
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