Christmas is the biggest occasion for the reunion of family, friends and our distant relatives. You must be meeting and visiting many of your elder relatives this Christmas such as grandparents, aunts or uncles. Some of your relatives and even your parents might show certain amount of trepidation while using computer, Internet, mobiles and other devices that have some technology involved. Your uncle could be smart with investment and finances, but when it comes to using technology, he must be still carrying around his old cell phone from 2005. Similarly, your mother’s computer may still be running on the good old Windows XP while she still relies on Internet Explorer 6 for web browsing. Hence, use your period of stay in their house during this Christmas to educate and upgrade the gadgets of your loved ones using following tech ideas.
Suggest or Gift a Smartphone
Your tech-phobic mom or grandfather may still hold on to the years old basic mobile phones as they hardly require anything more than handling ‘calls and text messages’. So, if you hear them saying “why do I need a complex mobile phone for calling and texting?” then, offer him/her some tech ideas on Smartphone.
Explain them how Smartphones could be affordable alternatives to the basic mobile phones and how they can simplify our daily lives. A basic Smartphone can help them integrate their e-mails, birthdays and anniversaries, text messages and call logs under an individual phone number entry. Plus, they will be updated with life events, achievements, house change, photos and video by accessing the various social networking platforms from their Smartphone on the go. Not to mention that apps that Smartphones can be bundled with will entertain them, reduce their work load, remember their errands and shopping list.
Download and Upgrade software
Does your grandpa complain you about the web designers’ inefficiency to design and showcase a webpage/website good enough to display properly on his PC? Well, just download and upgrade to a latest Internet browser that he can handle well and also that has full flash support, high speed, and better security features such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 9, and Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1. For this, you also need to upgrade the related software and the operating system.
In addition to these two tech ideas for Christmas, also help them learn how to clean and keep their computer safe with security software, simplify their storage devices (be it cloud storage or flash drive), and manage their all e-mail inboxes.
