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YouTube and Age Inappropriate Content

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Category : Parental Control

Often YouTube content is hilarious and extremely entertaining to young and old.

However, there is also a lot of stuff there, that is relatively easy to stumble across that we wouldn’t want our kids to see.

We’ve come across a YouTube safety feature (that we haven’t tried yet).

There is apparently a link called “Safety Mode” at the bottom of a YouTube page that will enable this feature.

Still, until we or you test this, we wouldn’t leave young children with free access to YouTube.

Is there other or better ways to keep inappropriate YouTube content from minors?

Forgotten your Router Password?

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Category : Passwords, Routers

Hi,

we came across this snippet of information – just posting so we remember to get back to this on the main site -

If you have forgotten your router password you will need to reste it to the factory default.

But if you have lost the documentation for the router, going to Port Forward should help. There is a massive amount of information on many routers, including deafylt (factory set) passwords.

Spys R Us

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Detective Sherlock

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Security Safe

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Security Agent

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On our way …

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Category : General

Well we’ve now got our three content management systems for Desktop Security Software installed and (mostly) configured.

 

We’ve chosen Joomla, WordPress (this blog) and MediaWiki.

 

There’s been a bit of a learning curve with these. I’d say WordPress has been by far the easiest to install and tweak. Next Joomla and finally MediaWiki. Weird because I thought MediaWiki would have been the easiest – given this is what wikipedia is based on.

 

So three content management systems is probably overkill, but the rough intention is to use Joomla for articles and reviews of software, MediaWiki, well, for a wiki on computer security – hopefully the nature of the wiki will allow others to help more easily keep it current. And WordPress for this blog – which is liable to be more opinion than fact!

 

We’ll see how it goes. At the moment we’ve got masses of information, but not enough time to get it structured and entered to any of these lovely open source CMS’s !

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