April 13, 2010
I love working with Active Directory on my Windows network because it makes my life so much easier. Active Directory is the directory service used on Windows based networks to administer large groups of computers easily. You use Active Directory to push out group policies. Group policy is the magic behind Active Directory. Group policies are [...]
April 8, 2010
In this article I will cover a bit about how to set up Internet Explorer parental controls. I have been a father for almost two and a half years now. My daughter loved computers straight off the bat and more and more each day. I let her smash on my touch smart desktop or draw [...]
November 13, 2009
Recently, one of our staff writers, Guy, published a very useful article featuring several applications used to limit children’s access on Windows computers by imposing time restrictions. He inevitably got a comment, which was along the lines of, “Is there a similar application for Mac?” Guy was nice enough for forward the comment to me [...]
October 21, 2009
Tomorrow evening, just after dinner, I’d like you to do me a favour. All of you. When you get up from the supper table, go look out your window and count the number of kids playing outside. If you see more than 3, count your blessings. Chances are, you won’t see any. Now think back [...]
October 5, 2009
The Internet is a wild, wild place. It has plenty of advantages for sure but it also has its fair share of disadvantages, traps and scams. Hardly an ideal place to let kids roam around unwatched. They can learn a lot from the Internet these days. The nature of what they learn is mostly up [...]
August 21, 2009
The Internet is a very important tool. These days, if you don’t know how to use the Internet, you’re severely hindered. But it is also a floodgate for many dangerous and harmful influences such as, but not limited to, pornography, virus infections, encounters with strangers and predators, bullying, and so much more. As adults, we [...]
August 16, 2009
As parents of two children, 13 years and 18 months, my wife and I worry about how our children will spend their time at our computer. When it comes to the older child, we especially worry about his access to mature adult content. However, we don’t care for content filtering programs which has been shown [...]
April 29, 2009
My oldest son likes games and Web surfing, but we don’t want to give him full access to our PC, or to the entire Internet. We’ve experimented with various ways to block him off, with varying success. It wasn’t long ago that I found just the program for which I was looking, a customizable application [...]
February 5, 2009
Protecting your children from all of the explicit content that’s floating around the Internet these days can be a hard task, especially if you don’t have a pop-up blocker. Even though your children or younger relatives are swimming in a pool of adult content every time they surf the net, it isn’t impossible to set [...]
July 25, 2008
It’s been nearly two years since Windows Vista was released to the masses back in November of 2007. Throughout this somewhat painful couple of years Microsoft managed to turn around just about all of the major issues facing the new operating system (compatibility, performance and bugginess) and they’ve even, believe it or not, had considerable [...]
