Care4Teen allows parents to access and control online activities and acts as a blocking service, which can be used to prevent children from accessing websites, deemed inappropriate for them.

To get started, all a user has to do is create an account on the Care4Teen website. Once done, install Care4Teen on the computer you wish to monitor. After that, just go to the Care4Teen website and log into your account. You will be able to see a list of websites visited by your child, as well as the search queries made by the child over the Internet.

Upon detection of any inappropriate site, Care4teen records the website in its log and create screencasts of the screen, which can be used to monitor the activities of your children.

Features

• Free and easy to use.
• Remote access your child’s computer and browsing history.
• Block and monitor the activities to keep children safe from inappropriate content for their age.
• Create screenshots and screencasts of inappropriate sites.

Check out Care4Teen @ www.care4teen.com (via AddictiveTips)

This Adobe Air app also goes beyond the usual kiddie-browser by creating a safe environment for your children, integrated with pre-loaded websites, videos, virtual places, and even an intuitive e-mail client.

Kido’z provides a fence for children to play around the Internet without parents worrying that they might stumble into something unsafe. Users can browse the kid-friendly interface with ready-made moderated content. You can also go in and create your own whitelist of websites if you find the default list to be too basic for your child.

Kido’z also lets you create time restrictions, lock the browser to the desktop on startup, set up email accounts, and a lot more. They also offer a fully functional 7-day trial, after which you can choose between a monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription. This app definitely shows that a child-friendly browser is serious business.

Features:

• Child-friendly browser.
• Set up whitelist of websites.
• Lock browser to desktop even on startup.
• Ready-made content ready for your kids.
• Also available in East Asian version.
• Works as a full screen app.
• Requires Adobe Air.
• Similar Tools: Bin Weevils, or read the 10 Search Engines For Kids.

Check out Kido’z @ www.kidoz.net

Overall, the website is a good addition to the Yahoo network and will benefit everybody looking for worthy internet security advice.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Provides internet safety tips for parents and teenagers.
• Covers computers, smartphones, and overall internet usage.
• Contains sections dedicates especially to parents and teens.
• Similar tools: Net Safety App and FamilySafetyCenter.
• Also read related articles:
  5 Sites That Promote Internet Safety For Kids
  2 Addons to Add Internet Parental Control to Firefox
  K9 Web Protection Keeps Your Family Safe On The Internet

Check out Yahoo Safely @ safely.yahoo.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Net Safety App has been made with support from Google and Verizon. The app sends you security tips every now and then. You can choose the intervals with which these tips are sent. These tips cover wide ranging topics like inappropriate material for children, online safety, teen concerns, and protecting your financial information online. With these tips you can stay notified of the latest online threats and protect yourself against them. Sources for these tips include Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely.org, OnGuardOnline.gov, and GetNetWise.org.

Features:

• A user friendly smartphone application.
• Compatible with Android devices.
• Sends you tips to protect yourself against online threats.
• Choose the frequency of tips.
• Keeps you informed of different online threats.
• Similar tools: NetSmartz Workshop, FamilySafetyCenter, FamilyShield, SafetyWeb and Zoodles.

Search for “Net Safety App” at the Android Marketplace or check it out @ www.androidapps.com/apps/534219-net-safety-tips-on-the-go-internet-education-foundation (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Internet Buttons is a free to use website. The site lets you place brightly colored buttons on a webpage. These buttons act as shortcuts to other URLs. You choose how many buttons to place on your webpage; your selection is saved through the account you create. You can name the buttons whatever you want and choose a different color for each button. Through a public URL to your buttons page you can access the startpage from anywhere.

This simple way of labeling the web shortcuts through brightly colored buttons will definitely be preferred by people new to computers and the Internet.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you create a startpage brightly colored buttons for net illiterate.
• Buttons are shortcuts to URLs.
• The buttons are completely customizable.
• Helps make the Internet easier to use.
• Similar tools:  Teach Parents Tech, LMPTFY and Let Me Google That For You.

Check out “Internet Buttons” @ www.internetbuttons.org (by MOin from ThumbPress)

As you can see in the screenshots above, you can fill in the details, select the videos you want to include and then share it via email (or via social sites). The resulting email is neatly organized, no matter how many videos you choose.

Features

• Tech support for dummies.
• Send how-to videos to your parents to help them understand computers.
• No registration needed.
• Select from over 50 videos in different categories.

Check out Teach Parents Tech @ www.teachparentstech.org (by Abhijeet from GT Cool Stuff)

When uploading your own pictures, they must be less than 1 MB and the face must be look forward and fill the frame. Then choose the skin color tone of the baby as well as the background of the baby. Then input the specific facial features of each person by dragging your mouse and creating circles on the body part that is indicated.

The app will then display a preview of the baby and you have to choose which parent image will be the basis of a particular feature. Complete your mini-project by giving your baby a name and sharing it with your friends.

The Switch Baby Maker is a fun app that can be used with your friends’ photos or even celebrities.

Features:

• Generate baby picture by combining two photos.
• Upload your own photos or select from those of the cast of the movie.
• Mix and match friend photos and even those of celebrities’.
• Share the baby picture to your Facebook account.
• Similar Tools: TinyEyes.

Check out Switch Baby Maker @ http://apps.facebook.com/switchbabymaker

The idea behind Food On The Table is pretty clever. Once you sign up, you just need to set up your favorite supermarkets in your local area and click the food selections that your family regularly eats. Then each week, you will be asked what meal you would like to prepare based on the initial list you made as well as what is available from your local grocery store.

You can select your usual recipes or find all recipes within the “˜recipe browser’. Once you have checked off the meals for the week, the app will generate a printable grocery list that you can use when you shop out.

You can choose between free and paid accounts. Free accounts allow you to create grocery lists and plan up to 4 meals per week while premium accounts let you plan meals for the whole week, download recipes, and share your meal plans with your friends and family online.

Food On The Table can definitely increase kitchen productivity and save time and money in the process.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

• 7 day meal planner with integrated grocery list.
• Free and paid plans available.
• Only supports U.S. groceries.
• Printable grocery list.
• Plan meals with your pre-selected choices.
• Find the best deals in your local area.
• Similar Tools: NoTakeOut, Yummly, WhatTheF***ShouldIMakeForDinner, and Food Pair.

Check out Food On The Table @ www.foodonthetable.com

Allowance Manager is a free to use website intended for parents. On the site parents can record duties their children have performed. Once they see that sufficient duties have been performed, they can give their children their allowance.

All this is done by you first creating an account and then adding your children (along with their names and ages) to your account. Next you print out a template of chores which you fill out according to your preferences. As soon as a chore gets done, you can record it on this chore chart.

At the week’s end you can review the chore chart and decide whether your children have earned their allowance.

Features:

• Lets you easily manage and track allowances for children.
• Provides a chore chart that can be printed out.
• When adding a new entry to your child’s allowance, you can specify exactly what the money is for (good behavior, extra earned, etc).
• Helps teach children a sense of responsibility and the value of money.
• Similar tool: Zefty.
• Also read related articles:
  Pocket Lint ““ A Money Management App For Paupers [Mac]
  Top Educational Websites For Children That Are Fun

Check out Allowance Manager @ www.allowancemanager.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Teen Chat Decoder is a fun website especially designed to help people, especially parents, to decode online chat lingo easily. Just go to the homepage and find a box where you can type the acronym you want to decode. Within seconds, you can view the meaning of that acronym. It is absolutely free and no registration needed.

Knowing these acronyms is one way to help protect your teenagers from possible harm of chatting online. It is also beneficial for those people who just want to know what a certain chat lingo means.

Features:

• Find out what common chat acronyms and abbreviations.
• Easy user interface.
• Parents’ reviews which guarantee that it’s really safe.
• No software installation needed.
• Users can even add a new acronym.

Check out TeenChatDecoder @ http://www.teenchatdecoder.com