Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Stanley Holditch
PC Magazine, which has twice declared Safe Eyes their Editor’s Choice for parental control software, is offering a preview of Safe Eyes 6: With version 6.0, the company has changed its emphasis, calling the program a “family Internet manager” rather using the phrase “parental control”. Safe Eyes now includes ratings-based filtering of video content on [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Rick Klau is a dad blogger who recently came to the conclusion that OS parental controls were simply not enough. Since he put it so well, I recommend visiting his blog and reading his entire post, but there is a choice bit I wanted to single out: Before this sounds like I’m trying to delegate [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
KENS5 in San Antonio talks to Stephen Conroy about Safe Eyes Mobile and Cell Phone Safety. Reposted with permission from KENS5 San Antonio.
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Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Video resposted with Permission from MyFox Houston. For those who don’t have Safe Eyes Mobile, just click here to get it in the iTunes store. Also, there are three things that everyone needs to do to make sure Safe Eyes Mobile protects their iPhone/iPod Touch. Under general settings, restrict Safari. If you don’t do this [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
CBS2 Tech Expert Ed Curran makes a very good, salient point to parents: iPhones and iPod Touches, which are doubtless going to be hot items this Holiday season, are really just little computers. They access the same Internet as a desktop or laptop, and display content in the same way. If you are considering giving [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
One of our customers in Tampa, Florida, recently appeared on WFLA-TV to talk about how Safe Eyes helps protects his daughter when she is online. One of the best points that Jason makes is that he isn’t worried about what his daughter does online, but he is worried about what everyone else is doing online. [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
A recent report by the Associated Press indicates that Sentry and Family Safe, two major parental control software brands, are selling data pulled directly from kids’ chats to businesses that want to use the information for tailoring marketing strategies towards children. Apparently the companies sold data from chat logs through a separate data-mining service called [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
One of our filtering solutions, Safe Eyes Mobile for the iPhone and iPod Touch, was recently reviewed on kiwi-commons. Here are some of the highlights: does a good job at convincing you that you’re searching the ‘real’ internet. You can even bookmark your favourite sites like a normal browser, and open multiple pages at a [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
We want to applaud Apple for making the iPhone and iPod touch more family-friendly by introducing their parental controls in the 3.0 update. The new settings allow parents to restrict movie, TV show, music, podcast and application access by user age. The only thing lacking in the parental controls is a way to control what [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Our second round of questions primarily concern our solutions Safe Eyes and Safe Eyes Mobile. A few of these questions were asked by multiple readers, so we thought it would be helpful to answer them in a public forum. We hope these answers prove useful in evaluating or using our products. Perplexed on Proxies Does [...]
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