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ContentBarrier sets up a protective wall around your computer. Its predefined categories let you choose what you don't want your children to see, and you can also create your own custom categories.
ContentBarrier blocks adult web sites, sites with subjects not fit for children, and even blocks chats when predatory language is used. It blocks offensive content coming from the Internet. ContentBarrier works with multiple users; if you have several children, you can set different criteria, corresponding to their age or maturity.
You can choose whether they have
ContentBarrier blocks adult web sites, sites with subjects not fit for children, and even blocks chats when predatory language is used. It blocks offensive content coming from the Internet. ContentBarrier works with multiple users; if you have several children, you can set different criteria, corresponding to their age or maturity.
You can choose whether they have
What's New
Version 10.5.6:
- This update offers Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatibility and addresses a number of other minor issues.
- This update is recommended for all ContentBarrier X5 users.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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ContentBarrier sets up a protective wall around your computer. Its predefined categories let you choose what you don't want your children to see, and you can also create your own custom categories.
ContentBarrier blocks adult web sites, sites with subjects not fit for children, and even blocks chats when predatory language is used. It blocks offensive content coming from the Internet. ContentBarrier works with multiple users; if you have several children, you can set different criteria, corresponding to their age or maturity.
You can choose whether they have access to newsgroups or whether they can download files. You can set the program to let them only use the Internet at certain times, and on specific days.The program can even send you e-mail, automatically, when certain events occur. ContentBarrier keeps a complete log of all web sites visited, whether blocked or not.
Reviews
Macworld 4 out of 5 - March 2009
ContentBarrier blocks adult web sites, sites with subjects not fit for children, and even blocks chats when predatory language is used. It blocks offensive content coming from the Internet. ContentBarrier works with multiple users; if you have several children, you can set different criteria, corresponding to their age or maturity.
You can choose whether they have access to newsgroups or whether they can download files. You can set the program to let them only use the Internet at certain times, and on specific days.The program can even send you e-mail, automatically, when certain events occur. ContentBarrier keeps a complete log of all web sites visited, whether blocked or not.
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Macworld 4 out of 5 - March 2009
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I've been using K9, and it does reliably block sites you want it to, but it certainly doesn't block normal mainstream sites because they use the word "racism", or "guns", or "sex", or whatever.
If Contentbarrier could employ the same kind of filtering methodology that K9 does, it would be great. It has many useful features (the free) K9 doesn’t have, one of which is the ability to apply different or no filters to different accounts on the Mac. With K9, it's all accounts or none.
Unless of course I'm missing some preference or something, which is entirely possible. I'm assuming that one method is based on a computer scanning a site for words or references, and the other is based more on human inspection and determination, and a database built on that.
As it stands, I can't justify spending 50 bucks on CB, when K9 is free. But it is nice other than having to spend a lot of time typing your password and exempting lots and lots of sites all the time.
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Bobxa reviewed on 28 Jul 2010
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Bluzy reviewed on 27 Feb 2010
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rickdees reviewed on 06 May 2009
When X5 came out I bought it immediately. They cleaned up the gui. Unfortunately, they also killed the ability to handle network clients (users with their home directory on another machine). This made the product completely unusable for me because my kids all have network accounts. I called tech support and their response was that they never "officially" supported network accounts. I finally got hold of a marketing person and tried stressing how important that feature was.
I did get a refund.
I've tried every new update since X5 came out and they still don't support network clients reliably. If they do I'll buy it again. Until then I'm sticking with X4.
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Bob reviewed on 19 Apr 2009
Overall, I'd give this program 4 out of 5 stars.
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David H. reviewed on 19 Jun 2007
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It consistently crashes when I download files that are high bandwidth or high utilisation.
I can crash this program time and time again, yet Intego can never offer me a reason why, and have been promising to fix this for me since 10.4.0 in 2006!!
Really poor! Don't buy it!
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spinraven reviewed on 01 Jun 2007
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Well guess what it is still a steaming pile of dung.
If you transfer large files through your wireless or wired interface, it Kernel panics!
Same problem as before. I can even repeat the problem, so all the diagnosis I supplied Intego was completely ignored, and this is still a very bug riddled piece of software... Tut Tut Intego!!!
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Propadeutic reviewed on 05 Feb 2007
Since we purchased this software, the company has provided updates to the program's database of restricted sites in the first week of each month. Today was another update (February 5).
My hope is that the developer increases the number of languages that are filtered.
We use the program on our 867MHz PowerBook in 10.4.8 with no problems whatsoever - oh, and after it initially sets it self up I have noticed no speed hit on web pages loading. A great product!
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Yakuzah reviewed on 18 Sep 2006
It finally arrived this year, and it was Dual Binary which was important as I had just purchased a new iMac Core Duo.
I had major problems under 10.4.0 which caused excessive crashing whenever I tried to do anything but browse normally. I could no longer stream music through iTunes, and any streaming media resulted in a kernel panic!
They issued 10.4.1 soon afterwards and after following instructions to clear my recent settings etc from Intego, installed and run the software under the new patch.
But the problems persist and I am experiencing at least 3 or 4 Kernel panics a day being caused by this software!
Intego have seriously dropped the ball on this one, and even reporting the issues to Intego through their support has been met with deaf ears!!!
Avoid it like the plague for the moment. I can't vouch for this software on PowerPC as I no longer own a model using this Processor, but I would wait until they decide to release a more mature product that works.
They have rushed this and I don't like software that causes excessive kernel panics! Its poor and I expect that type of crash to remain in the WIndows Heathen software and not on Apple Mac's!
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We're really pleased with it. The setup is easy... and intuitive... The ability to set a password separate from the user's login password is imperative - no other program we saw has this.
The blocking is very powerful... much more than Norton - and Norton doesn't even run on 10.4!!! So much is user selectable... as it needs to be.
The 30 day evaluation period is fabulous, too. We're confident that we will be purchasing the program, but we'll give it a few more days to be sure.
This program does what it says... and does it in an OSX way - without any interference to the way that we work. It is helping us be accountable for the way that we surf. Excellent!
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Hdo rated on 15 Dec 2010