Great advice!<br><br>Some comments:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Give them a way to deal with photos. Even if only that your sister can post to flickr and your Mother can view them there. </blockquote>
<div><br>There is kflickr for KDE. Very simple to use.<br> <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Or something. Make sure they can do their online banking. </blockquote>
<div><br>Works well in FireFox for at least some banks (President's Choice, TD Canada Trust and I think ScotiaBank).<br> <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Show them wikipedia. </blockquote><div><br>Indeed! Make it their home page even, or bookmark it together with Google.<br> <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
And set them up with a skype equivalent. (Let them discover, keep contact with, and interact, with friends.) </blockquote><div><br>Skype is available for Ubuntu/Kubuntu and works well, even with video. There is a .deb package for it on <a href="http://skype.com">skype.com</a>. So they don't have to lose any of their contacts.<br>
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And, most importantly, make sure you can remotely access their desktops so you can support them. If they lose interest, or can't figure things out, you don't want your efforts to be relegated to a corner, gathering dust. (Which is what happened with my mother, but that had more to do with mousing causing her hand to ache too much to be worth it to her.]<br clear="all">
<br></blockquote><div><br>There is a KDE desktop sharing application. However, last I tried it, it was painfully slow, even on a LAN. Not sure if it was a one off thing, has been fixed or what.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
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