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Stuart
Sep 17, 2024
The Problem with Meta's Portal: A Lesson in Kind Telecare
Recently, I watched Rory Sutherland, the brilliant Ogilvy advertising guru, discuss the Meta (Facebook) Portal TV on Lenny's Podcast ....
Stuart
Aug 13, 2017
Mindings’ useful reminders for complex council rubbish bin collection
Householders in my Dad’s home town have been told by their local council that they will no longer be issued with a printed calendar to...
Stuart
Aug 9, 2017
Mindings recommended in new “Click Guide to Ageing Well” book
I was delighted to receive a Tweet from Jason Bergen: Jason is the co-author, along with my Disruptive Social Care partner Shirley Ayres,...
Stuart
Jul 23, 2017
Wall-mount an iPad for a perfect Mindings solution (for a pound!)
A user recently mentioned that they planned to wall-mount Mindings. The most common set-up for Mindings is an iPad on a stand, in the...
Stuart
Jul 19, 2017
Mindings Calendar tip – tell your loved one what YOU are doing
One of Mindings most powerful and useful features is the calendar. Mindings pulls in data from online services such as Google and iCloud...
Stuart
Jul 9, 2017
How to get your loved one to engage with Mindings – 10 Top Tips
How to get users interacting with Mindings.
Stuart
Jul 2, 2017
Mindings plus Skype – can they work together?
Skype is a terrific App that’s been a great boon, particularly for families that span a distance. We hear many stories of how it’s the...
Stuart
Jun 20, 2017
The (re)-launching of WebMindings – Mindings Viewer on your iPad
Mindings users may have noticed warning messages on their iPads mentioning that Mindings Viewer may “slow down” their iPad or that...
Stuart
Jun 13, 2017
Facebook Safety Check, telecare, and Mindings
There’s been much controversy about Facebook’s new Safety Check feature, in which users in the vicinity of a tragic event are sent a...
Stuart
Oct 5, 2016
ClickGuide author recommends Mindings as social care innovation
Today I was delighted to meet up with my friend, social care provocateur and social media queen Shirley Ayres, to discuss, among other...
Stuart
Jun 9, 2016
Mindings adds new fonts to aid users with impaired vision
We added foreign language fonts to Mindings some time ago – both foreign language fonts, and a font created for people living with...
Stuart
Jan 8, 2016
Variable font sizes help Mindings users with visual impairments
Mindings has a large range of settings to help users have the best possible experience. It’s well worth having a root around to see if...
Stuart
Jul 16, 2015
Is there App for Loneliness? Mindings could be one says The Guardian.
Loneliness is becoming one of the most talked about subjects of our age. At a time when everyone has an mobile computer in their pocket,...
Stuart
Apr 1, 2015
Mindings helps user’s mother live at home independently
In this video testimonial, Sue Strudwick talks about her nine-month experience using Mindings with her mother. Sue says that Mindings has...
Stuart
Mar 16, 2015
New Flexible Note feature helps keep users hydrated with “Drink Water!” messages!
In this “Nutrition and Hydration Week 2015” it seems appropriate to mention an email we received a few weeks ago from Anne, whose father...
Stuart
Mar 10, 2015
Mindings presented at care transformation event
With continuing cuts to budgets and increasing demand on care, local authorities are looking to digital innovation to transform public...
Stuart
Mar 6, 2015
How a woman’s night-time wandering problem was helped by Mindings
We love receiving feedback from users, and we particularly enjoy hearing how Mindings is being used in interesting ways – often ways we...
Stuart
Oct 19, 2014
Financial Times profiles Mindings in Silver Economy article
The Financial Times are currently running a series of article on “The Silver Economy”. This week Deputy Companies Editor Daniel Thomas...
Stuart
Jul 23, 2014
Prototype dedicated Mindings device commissioned
Mindings has been working with specialist industrial and engineering design studio Instrument Industries to design a dedicated Mindings...
Stuart
May 22, 2014
New Mindings Sender App!
You asked for it, so we built it! We built Mindings to fit in with your life, so the way you send pictures and messages to a Mindings...
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