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Apple Implements App Ratings/Restrictions for iPhone, iPod Touch

Written on June 17, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

The fact that they included parental controls for games in the 3.0 beta sort of hinted at this, but along with the iPhone 3.0 update today came app ratings, which appear rather inconspicuously under the app’s price and buy button on the detailed info screen. It also appears next to an app’s name in the [...]

Apple Brings Parental Controls, 3G Data Failure to iPhone OS 3.0

Written on May 07, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

Another new feature has surfaced in iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 (though it appears to have been available in beta 4, I just discovered), and this one should come as welcome news to beleaguered and frustrated developers dealing with inappropriate content-based rejection. Parental controls are now available on the iPhone, just as was hinted recently [...]

Kid Proofing a Mac With Parental Controls

Written on January 13, 2009 by Nick Santilli and 23 people have commented

If you’ve got young children, chances are they’re already quite adept at using the computer. This is a new generation of wired little ones, and we’ve got our work cut out for us as we attempt to stay ahead of them.
I’ll wager that you’re more concerned with protecting your children from the sketchy dangers of [...]

Leopard’s Parental Controls a possible source of resource hogging?

Written on November 01, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 28 people have commented

Jon Buys wrote in letting me know of a little issue he’s having with the new Parental Controls feature of Leopard.
He writes in:
I enabled the Parental Controls on my new Leopard install, and after letting my kids play Frozen Bubble and browse to Playhouse Disney for an hour or so I found that the daemon [...]