Monthly Archives: August 2015

How do Yahoo, Bing and Google SafeSearch compare to each other?
Posted on August 13, 2015 by pcwrt in Parental Control, Technology.
Trust me, if you have young kids at home, you want to turn on SafeSearch for the search engines. No, you don’t have to enter nasty words to get nasty results. Searches with innocent words can bring nasty results to your screens. Try “american video”, “european video”, “latin video”, “asian video” and see for yourselves. […]

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Parental Control with Windows Live Family Safety
Posted on August 12, 2015 by pcwrt in Parental Control.
For Windows 8 and above, you do parental control through Windows Live Family Safety, which requires you to have Windows accounts for both the monitoring and monitored. If you are using Windows 7 and want to use Family Safety, you need to install Windows Essentials. How to use Family Safety on Windows 7: Download and […]

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How to set up Windows 7 parental controls
Posted on August 11, 2015 by pcwrt in How To, Parental Control.
The built-in Windows 7 parental controls tool allows you to do three things: Control when a child can use the computer. Control games by rating, content or title. Allow and block specific programs. Setting it up is pretty straightforward: Launch the Control Panel, click “Set up parental controls for any user”. Click on the […]

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How do I set up parental controls on iPhone
Posted on August 7, 2015 by pcwrt in How To, Parental Control.
On iPhone, parental controls is called Restrictions. It provides pretty detailed control over apps, features and contents that can be accessed on the phone, protected by a four digit passcode (or would you rather call it PIN?). The following is a step-by-step guide on how to set up parental controls on iPhone. The same procedure […]

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How to put parental lock on YouTube
Posted on August 7, 2015 by pcwrt in How To, Parental Control.
I assume that you don’t want to block YouTube entirely. You only want to block videos on YouTube that might be inappropriate for children. If that’s the case, read on. Apparently, Google also noticed that some videos might not be appropriate for children, or might be objectionable to some adult viewers too. To filter out […]

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How to set up parental control for Google Play Store
Posted on August 6, 2015 by pcwrt in How To, Parental Control.
Parents, if you are paranoid when you hand over a new shining digital gadget to your children, you are not alone. Nowadays, digital artifacts are produced with blinding speed. In 2013, TechCrunch reported that there were more than 250 million registered domains on the Internet. Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. […]

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