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...between those who e-mail and their loved ones who don't. Early efforts, like the Mail Station and Mail Bug, tried to create computer products simple enough for the elderly to learn to use. The next generation of services has scrapped that paradigm entirely. Instead, companies like Sunnygram, Presto and Celery are turning e-mails into faxs, phone messages or stamped letters - media senior citizens already understand - so that users can keep in touch on their own terms. "My dad doesn't feel capable of managing e-mail, but I live in front of my computer," says Bellanca. Adds...
...Presto and Celery, which both launched in 2006, deliver e-mail printouts almost in real time because they require subscribers to purchase hardware to handle incoming messages. (In addition to personal updates and interesting articles, caregivers can send reminders about doctors' appointments and family functions.) Celery charges $13.98 a month to send and receive (color printouts of) e-mails - as well as Facebook and Twitter updates - via a fax machine, which costs $119 if you don't already own one. Presto - to which, full disclosure, my husband and I were early adopters, each of us having bought a machine...
...turns out, some people prefer one-sided conversations. I asked my grandmother whether, when she receives a Presto printout, she ever wishes she could write back. "No," she said. "I like hearing from people without any obligation to respond...
...Stop-motion is an exacting form of animation in which puppets are posed in a scene, then photographed for a single frame, then moved ever so slightly, then photographed again - and 100,000 or so frames later, presto, you have a feature film. It's been around from the beginning of cinema, since 1898, and for the patient artists behind the scenes, it must seem it takes about that long to finish a movie...
...this adequately was not easy, but Levine seemed to construct such vivid imagery with ease. Brought to life by a continuing rhythmic momentum, the melody finally died away as the funeral march continued off into the distance. The symphony returned to a lively dance with the onset of the Presto. This time, images of an elegant ball came to mind. Skirling strings and a majestic trio in between the scherzo were followed by a stately and spirited finale. The percussion drove the finale, bringing the energetic piece to its apex and the audience to its feet. Not surprisingly...