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Care4Teen: Parental Control Tool That Automatically Creates Screencasts Upon Detection Of Inappropriate Content

There has always been a debate on whether the internet does more bad than good for the young users. On one hand, the free availability of everything allows kids to research and study articles and news, but on the other, the number of inappropriate websites increasing day by day can really corrupt those young minds. [...] (more…)

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SelfRestraint: Block Websites For Up To 24 Hours, View Countdown Timer

Yesterday, we covered FocalFilter, a website blocking application to avoid getting distracted with time wasting websites while working. Even though it worked flawlessly, it had only a limited number of time presets to block websites. SelfRestraint is an open source application developed by Parker Kuivila, which takes care of the problem by providing you with [...] (more…)

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Create, Manage & Backup Windows Hosts File With Hosts File Generator

Some malware programs attempt to modify, remove or simple empty Windows hosts file. After gaining access to Windows hosts file, such malicious applications/scripts try to bypass those blocked websites which provide a gateway for other rootkit applications/scripts to gain and exploit root access of your system. For those who are not familiar with Windows hosts, [...] (more…)

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How To Block Unwanted Website In Ubuntu Linux

If your Ubuntu computer is used by some one else besides yourself, specially children, then you might want to restrict some websites and make sure they do not open on your system. Here is a quick way to block such sites in Ubuntu. It is extremely simple doesn’t require any third party application, you just [...] (more…)