I have to confess that this is one area where Amazon's offering has really taken me by surprise. The Freetime app on their Kindle Fire HD line is quite impressive. Has a monthly cost, but considering the amount of apps that the kids have already gotten access to, I suspect it will be a while before that cost worries me.
I don't know of any similar offering on other platforms, at the moment. And my kids are all rather harsh laptops (which is currently all we have, I'm looking at a raspberry pi board), so this is the only computing access they get at the moment. There is a good segment in the current Make magazine that has some suggestions on software to get folks started tinkering. In fact, it looks like the entire kids & family section of their site is worth a look on this category (Though, does look higher on the craft side, but I'm not sure that is a negative). http://blog.makezine.com/category/home/kids-family/ On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I know some of you have kids and was wondering what you do to keep them > safe online? > > I've found that its a bit hit and miss myself: > > 1. iPads not too bad as the Restrictions settings (password enabled) is > good enough to block Safari and Youtube. The main issue is remembering to > turn it on again after I've disabled it. > > 2. Phones - I've had to get really strict and just ban my son (who's five) > from using my phone at all. Annoyingly, my daughter (who is 18 months) like > to press the Emergency Call option which doesn't need unlocking on my > Android phone. > > 3. Windows XP - this is my wife's old work laptop that is now my son's to > use for some websites. I have disabled youtube by manipulating the hosts > file. For other sites I have to rely on the content advisor inside the > Windows settings. Not sure how good that is since my son still manages to > find flash-based websites to play games. Restricting to a specific site is > not always easy. I found an article detailing how to use the proxy settings > set to an invalid value (to completely disable all sites) then selectively > provide exceptions. Thing is, the site I gave him access to makes calls to > toher domains for images and CSS which then have to be added to the > exception list. Pain!!! > > Any thoughts guys? > > Rakesh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
