Macsimum Migration Kit: Parental control software
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 23, 2008 at 1:50am
In this week’s Macsimum Migration Kit, we’re looking at parental control software for the Mac. For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Windows machines to Macs—or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Macsimum Migration kit is an overview of Mac OS X products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc.
Bumper Car
Bumper Car is a web browser for kids with parental control features. Kids can browse the Internet by clicking on any of the buttons or categories, or by typing a destination in the address field. Or they can use you arrow keys to move the toy bumpercar into the “Tunnel of Mystery” to be teleported (randomly) to one of over 40,000 kid-friendly sites on the built in collection of Whitelists.
Content Barrier X4
ContentBarrier X4 offers predefined categories that let users choose what they don’t want their children to see. Parents can also create their own custom categories.
D-Link Express EtherNetwork Routers
D-Link Express EtherNetwork Routers are four-port broadband 10/100 Ethernet routers with firewall and parental control ability.
GURL Watcher
GURL Watcher lets you take charge of what children, employees or other users are doing while they’re surfing online. The user places this small application in the extensions folder, turns it on with the included SetUp application, and that’s it. GURL Watcher works in the background to record all the sites visited by a computer’s users. You can either save these URLs in a designated file known only to you, or email them to a designated address.
KidsServer PE
KidsServer PE is a personal edition of the web filtering software “KidsServer.” It’s a parental control program for Mac OS X and can restrict any browsers.
LiveMark Family
The LiveMark Family analyzes pages before their display, and blocks them if necessary.
Safe Eyes Parental Control
Safe Eyes Parental Control Software lets you block objectionable material, limit time spent online, block instant messenger chats and receive instant alerts if questionable activity occurs.
For an in-depth round-up of Mac products, go to the Macintosh Products Guide.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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