Concerned about what your child is doing online? Programs like MessengerLog 360 and Messenger Detect allow users to record chat sessions from multiple chat applications (including MSN Live Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, and ICQ) as well as multiple users in a single program. Is this something for you?

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Written by special guest writer Jason Deeham.

Children by nature are curious, and sometimes disobedient.  We’ve heard the story a time or two, where you tell a child not to touch the stove because it’s hot, and to no avail, they…

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What Google is to search, Skype is to a free online phone service.  Skype has become the phone service of choice for unlimited long distance calls.

For kids, it’s a feature-rich phone system offering cool features like chatting, file sharing and…

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To Catch a Predator is a very popular reality TV show, and online viewing fame, that features a series of hidden camera investigations by Dateline NBC and host Chris Hansen.

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reSTART is the first Internet addiction residential treatment program in the United States. Not unlike drug rehabilitation or Alcoholics Anonymous, the program has been built to treat Internet and Video Game Addiction including gambling, chatting and texting dependencies.

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Policy Central Enterprise Solution (PCES) is a software program designed to track and monitor school students’ online behavior, including inappropriate words and terms related to cyberbullying and harassment.

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PC-Time Manager allows you to limit the amount of time your kids (or general users) are allowed to use a computer.

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Safe Eyes Mobile is a web browser application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to filter inappropriate content, particularly convenient for parents with kids that own either device. Safe Eyes Mobile’s built-in filter works very similarly to the Safari mobile browser – Apple’s version of an internet browser.

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Internet browsers are displacing operating systems and other software products as a hot area of competition these days as various vendors role out new versions of their products. Some are old standards like Microsoft Internet Explorer. Others are open source like Mozilla Firefox, available to the public for use and modification. Then there are the newer players in the browser wars: Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. Which one is right for you?

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Disney, of the Disney World and Land fame, and Asus, a top maker of computers and electronic parts, have partnered to create ‘Disney Netpal’, a netbook designed specifically for kids.

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