The new parental controls in Leopard do for the most part work but they aren't perfect.
I don't mean that it doesn't block 100% of porn on the internet, I know that no parental controls do that. In fact, it does a good job blocking porn, AS LONG AS, you block yahoo. For some reason yahoo image search pretty much doesn't get blocked at all. Google works great! Even if you try to turn off the adult filter it just won't let you, it will say it turned it off but when it goes back to your search it is still on. Even the MSN search is blocked better than yahoo. It isn't too big of deal, but I just blocked yahoo's image sites and it works fine now. If you are really looking and try and try and try, then you will find something, but of course you can block it later to make it hard. This pretty much accounts for the whole 5 out of 10.
Other problems. There is no option to be... a half administrator. If you got a kid and he need to uninstall a App or install an App, it doesn't work. Can't do it. Then they have to come all the way to you to be able to uninstall and reinstall anything. A real bother if they are at school or something. Deleting some other things just doesn't work either. I know this is also a good feature but if the only thing you want to do it block porn then it gets in the way. There should be a way to have some rights to do somethings.
The parental controls web filters block somethings if it is on or not. THIS PROBLEM REALLY MAKE ME MAD. I called apple and talked to them about it and it seems to be a problem with 10.5. It doesn't matter if you filter web content or not, but as long as your account it managed you can't log into some websites. The problem I'm having it with a school's webmail. It uses an exchange server. It does not matter if the content filters are on or off it won't let you log in. It just asks for the username and password over and over again. It very annoying because if your kid needs their school mail and it doesn't work, then you have to turn of parental controls to get it to work. WASTE OF TIME! I bet there are lots of other log in websites that won't work. Hotmail does work.
These are the problems I've ran into so far. If anybody else has had any. Let me know.
The Stig
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I don't mean that it doesn't block 100% of porn on the internet, I know that no parental controls do that. In fact, it does a good job blocking porn, AS LONG AS, you block yahoo. For some reason yahoo image search pretty much doesn't get blocked at all. Google works great! Even if you try to turn off the adult filter it just won't let you, it will say it turned it off but when it goes back to your search it is still on. Even the MSN search is blocked better than yahoo. It isn't too big of deal, but I just blocked yahoo's image sites and it works fine now. If you are really looking and try and try and try, then you will find something, but of course you can block it later to make it hard. This pretty much accounts for the whole 5 out of 10.
Other problems. There is no option to be... a half administrator. If you got a kid and he need to uninstall a App or install an App, it doesn't work. Can't do it. Then they have to come all the way to you to be able to uninstall and reinstall anything. A real bother if they are at school or something. Deleting some other things just doesn't work either. I know this is also a good feature but if the only thing you want to do it block porn then it gets in the way. There should be a way to have some rights to do somethings.
The parental controls web filters block somethings if it is on or not. THIS PROBLEM REALLY MAKE ME MAD. I called apple and talked to them about it and it seems to be a problem with 10.5. It doesn't matter if you filter web content or not, but as long as your account it managed you can't log into some websites. The problem I'm having it with a school's webmail. It uses an exchange server. It does not matter if the content filters are on or off it won't let you log in. It just asks for the username and password over and over again. It very annoying because if your kid needs their school mail and it doesn't work, then you have to turn of parental controls to get it to work. WASTE OF TIME! I bet there are lots of other log in websites that won't work. Hotmail does work.
These are the problems I've ran into so far. If anybody else has had any. Let me know.
The Stig
Also