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Does anyone know of software for Mac OS X that will let me track which sites my kids go to ?

I've heard that there are services or software that you can use which will email a list of visted URLs to your email adress. The advantage of this over History is that is cannot be deleted. (No 1st amendment speeches please...)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    AWW, c'mon, I was chompin' at the bit to do a 1st amendment speech..... ;^&

    When it comes to children, all bets are off - all civil rights are nil - all democratic notions are out of the window. Of course you've got to be the PARENT - someone HAS to be! My hat's off to YOU, m'dear!.

    Yes, there IS parental control software for the MAC with e-mail notification - good choice for a personal computer, BTW!

    I had my sister install this one - just for the e-mail notification feature alone! Kids Go Go Go. Also, the best feature, if the kids try to crack it bypassing the filtering it will disallow it.

    Here's how to make it work:

    Install and Launch Kids Go Go Go!

    Choose a Filtering option and you're done.

    Just Hide the App.

    Next Log In Kids Go Go Go! will work in the background.

    If you have a kids log in in addition to yours, turn Off Filtering in your account.

    Deselect Disallow user's changes to settings.

    Now, Fast User Switch to your kid's account.

    Launch Kids Go Go Go!

    Choose the filtering option. Kids Sites Only searches a database. Harmful Sites searches the site to determine if it should be blocked.

    Hide Kids Go Go Go!

    Switch back to your account and select Disallow user's changes to settings.

    Hide Kids Go Go Go! (You may have to click OK...I forget which is correct right now.)

    When you log out and back in. Kids Go Go Go! will be functioning in the background.

    http://www.makienterprise.com/kggg/kidsgogogo.html

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    Other Parental Control Programs:

    http://www.pure-mac.com/censor.html

    Source(s): My installation notes & http://www.makienterprise.com/kggg/kidsgogogo.html
  • 1 decade ago

    you can use the little arrow to the side of where you type in the website you want to go to. you don't have to get fancy expensive software to do it. you can also only let them go to certain sites, and if you have certain channels you don't want your kids to watch, you can get a V-chip.

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