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 <rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com> 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 javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > 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 javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
