I use OpenDNS as the DNS for my router: http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/
Sent from my iPhone On 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.
