Technology

Parental Control Bar

From: WRAAC.org
Price: Free, Outdated, and NOT recommended

To help out a friend with four kids, I tried installing the Parental Control Bar from WRAAC. The tool is SO bad that I won’t provide the link to it here–for several reasons.

FULL ARTICLE: “Parental Control Bar: NOT Recommended”

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I just set up Windows 7 on my home workstation tonight and I’m relatively impressed with the result, which for Microsoft, is saying something. I’m planning a full review later. Stay Tuned!

Have a problem that occurs when you log on? Wonder if that Group Policy settings are being properly applied? Got a logon script that keeps crashing?  Turn on debug logging for Windows logon events to find out what is going on.
Debug Windows Logon Events: USERENV.LOG

K9 Web Protection

From: BlueCoat K9 Web Protection
(http://www1.k9webprotection.com/getk9/download-software.php)
Price:
Free, up-to-date, Highly Recommended
Supported OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista; Mac OS X 10.4.7 and later

BlueCoat manufactures security devices providing Web Content Filtering for corporate enterprises.  They also make a parental control application called K9 Web Protection which is free for home users.  It is an excellent balance of filtering capability and ease of use and has a lot of options to help parents set limits on web browsing and block unsafe or inappropriate sites.  What you get is pretty impressive, given that it is  free.

FULL ARTICLE: Free Parental Control for the Web

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