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Net Nanny for the Mac released
Are you concerned about the youngsters in your household being exposed to inappropriate content on the Web? ContentWatch today announced the release of Net Nanny for the Mac, the first Mac version of their popular Internet filtering and parental control software.
With Net Nanny, you can block access to gambling and pornography sites, and specify what games or sites (enabled with parental ratings) your kids can visit. NetNanny does this by integrating with Safe Search options on most major search engines, including Google, MSN, AllTheWeb, Yahoo, Dogpile, Lycos, and AltaVista.
NetNanny provides usage reports so parents can see what each user has been viewing on the Internet, browser alerts when access to an inappropriate or blocked page is attempted, time restrictions for users, and a Content Assistant feature to define the right level of protection for each user.
Although ContentWatch's Web site hasn't yet been updated with news about the Mac release, their press release announcing the new software states that the Mac product info will be listed at http://netnanny.com/mac/.
NetNanny is available for US$39.99 for the first license, with each additional computer in the house costing just $19.99. The application is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Phil said 4:11PM on 8-11-2008
OH NOEZ no moar pr0n for me!!!
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oshawapilot said 4:36PM on 8-11-2008
And with most of this functionality built into Leopard (and the remainder available via a free service like openDNS), we need this why?
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LBowman said 2:04AM on 8-26-2008
Because Parental Controls for Leopard are useless, buggy, hang the whole system while still allowing my 8 year old to access porn sites by accident, unpredictably stop working at all or alternatively destroy every browser using a Mozilla kernel (so long, Firefox!) Aside from that, hey, no reason to use something else I suppose ... I wish Mac Minder were still being published, I really really do. It was simple, it worked, it didn't crash the system ... those were the days.
shermanh said 6:32PM on 8-11-2008
I get this from NetNanny:
https://www.netnanny.com/kb/285
Does Net Nanny work on an Apple Macintosh?
Unfortunately, Net Nanny 5, our current version, is not supported on the Apple Macintosh platform.
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(01) said 7:42PM on 8-11-2008
when talking to your kids hasn't even been attempted...
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crsh said 10:05AM on 8-12-2008
I didn't know NetNanny was still around (and I use a Windows PC at home).. Anyway, talk about a flashback from 1996.
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RobP said 12:22PM on 8-12-2008
Why bother paying for a software solution when you can use a hardware solution OpenDNS (http://opendns.com) for free? (for broadband users, dial-up can still use the dns servers but probably not the content blocking)
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skip said 12:51PM on 8-12-2008
Personally I use opendns.org and a router with transparent dns redirection... but that's just me : )
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Dave Lyon said 1:25PM on 8-12-2008
Maybe I shouldn't post since I'm the ContentWatch webmaster, but since I read TUAW every day I decided I had the right. We are finally live with the new product as of a few minutes ago- sorry for the delay. Hope it meets expectations. I'm just happy to finally be able to use a product we make at home.
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maxpower said 3:36PM on 8-12-2008
The "new" Net Nanny for Mac just looks like a re-branding of Intego's ContentBarrier (http://www.intego.com/contentbarrier/) . This is disappointing as I was expecting a mac version of Net Nannies windows software...which this isnt. Although on a postive note it is $10 cheaper than getting it from Intego.
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Justin Brown said 12:25AM on 8-14-2008
OpenDNS does most of this for free. check it out.
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