Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time

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A reputable Twitter source recently wrote that “Screen Time” was "a rush job". It feels that way. As part of a book project I’ve ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

iOS 12: "family sharing" is still for children only -- ask to buy disabled at age 18 in US

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The “Share purchases on iPad with family members” chapter of my iOS 12 iPad user guide tells me Family Sharing is still limited to children,...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

Things old persons don't understand -- what happens to all those school Google Docs?

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Two of our kids are ending their St Paul Public School careers. Both have a collection of Google Docs. The school does not seem to provide ...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

The state of iOS parental mobile device management is bad

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I recently reviewed Qustodio and found it unusable because the mandatory VPN is not compatible with modern encrypted connections (https) . ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Qustodio parental control software for iOS is obsolete.

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I did a review of Qustodio’s parental control product for iOS on my special needs blog . It wasn’t a positive review. The product routes all...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

H2O Wireless - getting a nano SIM for your upgraded phone - and keeping your old H2O number.

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H2O Wireless is a rock bottom ultra-cheap AT&T MVNO. We use it for the 3 kids and their iPhones, with very minimal data services (Find ...
Monday, October 06, 2014

ptel Real Paygo fatal flaw: it's a prepay plan that runs up overage fees

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One of the reasons we use prepaid plans for the kids is that there should be a natural limit on overages. If Apple’s mediocre iPhone Cellula...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Review: Maxell AirStash WiFi media server: iTunes movies to iPhones for long car trips

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The Maxell AirStash Wireless 8GB Flash Drive  [1] is designed to stream movies to kid's handheld devices on long car rides [3]. It proba...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Airport network configuration: Finding Mac address to put into Timed Access Control

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I'll get my rant of out the way. AirPort Utility 6 was the start of Apple's year of drifting downhill . The good news is that Maveri...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Facebook's parental monitor page - aka Activity Log

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For the moment, until the next state mandated revision, Facebook has a Page I can use to track #1 son's Facebook activity with a URL of ...

Legal Gmail for kids under and over 13 with Dreamhost Google Apps or Google Apps for Business

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In the US, Google Account owners must be over 13, in the Netherlands it's 16  [1]. It's common to lie to get accounts for younger ki...
Monday, February 13, 2012

How should I transcode my home analog video?

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Twelve years ago I was keen to digitize my home video tapes - on a 400 MHz Celeron system. Eight years ago I wrote "The thought of lo...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Organizing kid school accounts with OS X: Chrome to the rescue

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In the twilight of the general purpose computer , I struggle to balance OS X and Apple tech, Google services, parental obligations, and gett...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

NYT's Tedeschi misses the iOS Porn story

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Sadly, Bob Tedeschi , who should know better, missed the big story in his NYT article on Porn and iOS parental controls . When he wrote that...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

Parental Controls on iOS and OS X: what we do now

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A year or two ago I wrote about  how Google and Apple have both failed Parental controls . Since then things have not gotten much better . I...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

iPhone on a budget: The AT&T GoPhone PayGo Option

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AT&T is facing the end of their SMS lifeline . They're responding with innovations -- of a sort . For my family, their latest move i...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Back to the future: OS X Parental Controls, DVD Encyclopedias, and MacKiev

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I was born into a world of progress. Things were supposed to get better, the old would fade away. That was then. Now we live in a whitewate...
Friday, December 24, 2010

How information leaks on Facebook: a semi-private URL vs. Picasa web albums

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This is mundane, but worth noting. For years we kept some shared family material private by not sharing the URL. It worked, the site was ne...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

iPhone for kids: The Achilles Heel

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For one brief shining moment I thought Apple had a good kid platform .... Gordon's Tech: The kid's iPhone - configuration and AT&...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Configuring iTunes to reference apps from a shared folder

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9/25/10 : With the latest release of iTunes it doesn't work any more anyway, you no longer get the prompt to find all your missing apps ...