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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 17. Slapping Parental Controls on Your Kids

If you have children in the house, you may be leery of giving them unrestricted access to your Macintosh and the Internet. Unrestricted Internet allows access to any website, including pornography, hate groups, and online predators. Unrestricted access to your Macintosh allows anyone to add or delete programs, rename and rearrange folders, and generally mess up the tidy organization of the files stored on your Macintosh.

To limit a child's access to both the Internet and your Macintosh, you can create a special Managed with Parental Controls account. You can use this account to restrict the times a person can use your Macintosh (such as for one hour a day, or no later than 9:00 pm), the types ...

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