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Grandma plus iPad equals artistic expression

by Michael Rose (Aug 31st, 2012)

Reddit user Oxide42 posted the above photo of his grandmother with the following caption: Bought my Grandma an iPad. She's 84 and never had a tablet, and wanted it for "art." I bought ArtRage for her and left her alone with her new toy for 30 minutes. This is what I came back to. Nice work, ...

Grandma wants an iPad: the multigenerational buyer's guide

by TJ Luoma (Mar 13th, 2012)

Are you getting an earful from parents or grandparents about which iPad they should buy? Read on for our guide to buying the right iPad for Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa. Two bits of anecdotal evidence that there's a digital revolution in progress: In the past year, both my mother and my ...

Found Footage: Grandma gets an iPad

by David Winograd (Mar 19th, 2010)

After spending years trying, failing and trying again to teach a number of mature Apple users how to use various Apple products, I got a kick out of this video. It's funny because it's true, and it also shows that there are some less than optimum uses for an iPad. This iPad parody was made as a ...

iLickit might not be sanitary, but brings new meaning to 'oleophobic'

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2009)

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_game_you_play_with_your_tongue_Video'; If you're the kind of person who complains in the comments whenever we post a useless app, then just move right on from this weekend post (or go check out Paradise Monkeys, it actually looks like a good one). But as ...

24 Hours of Leopard: Web Clips

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2007)

Feature: Web Clips, little roll-your-own widgets for Dashboard that will tell you anything the Web can. How it works: Making a Dashboard widget isn't really that hard now, but it's about to get a lot easier. There'll be a little button in Safari that you can press to take a "clip" of a web page and ...

MetaFacts report finds that AAPL popular with the AARP crowd

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 30th, 2006)

According to MetaFacts 2006 Home PC Brand Profile Report, 46% of Apple's base is over the age of 55, compared with 25.2% of other platforms. The Home PC Brand Profile Report is "one of a series of summary reports on specific topics based on the results of MetaFacts' 2006 Technology User Profile ...