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Parental Control Tips & Guide

December 9th, 2009 Admin No comments

These days, Internet is considered as one of an important thing. We use Internet to find information, send emails, and buy things online. There are also many contents on the Internet that not suitable for children.

Parents must control what information is suitable for their children, but they can’t always be around when children is accessing the Internet. That is why many vendors creating Internet Parental Control system.

This article will describe a few of them.

The first thing you need to protect your children when they are using a computer is to prevent them to get access to passwords.
By doing this, you can keep them from sharing passwords with other people that can possibly affect the security of your system.

The second thing you need to do is using the same computer.
You can sit next to your children while there are going online, you can guide them to make a good and safe decisions.
That way you can approve websites that they can access and allow them to bookmark those websites.
You can guide them how to do an appropriate online behavior and at the same time you can monitor your child’s conversations with their friends.

The third step is by blocking the access to inappropriate websites.
Probably, your children may disagree about what is appropriate and what is not, but you have the full control and you also have the responsible over their safety.

Provide some time to browsing and searching for information about parental control software that can give to control to block or unblock certain websites.
Try not to leave your children alone when they are online and don’t let them chat with stranger

Another step is to teach your children not to spread personal information such as school information, name, home address, phone number under any circumstances,
Performing all of these steps is not going to be easy but definitely it will teach your children important things and keep them safe.

Graphical User Interface Basic Knowledge – Part 2

November 25th, 2009 Admin No comments

Hello… nice to have you back on this site, I will continue the discussion in Part 1.
Ok then, lets start….

Minimize, Restore and Exit buttons.
These buttons will allow you to minimize an application’s screen, restore the application to the original size or shutting down the application.
These buttons usually located on the top right corner of a program.

Scroll bar.
This button is used to move up and down or change between pages. Usually this button is placed in the right side of an application.

Status bar.
It is used to display a small message and to show the progress of a task or command. In most programs, it is located at the bottom of the user interface.

Context menu.
When perform a right click on your mouse, a menu will be displayed. That is a context menu.

A context menu is commonly used as a shortcut command.

Input box.
Input box is a small rectangle, usually use to input a set of data in a program interface. As an example when you open up your web based email, then you must enter your username and password into a rectangle box, that is an input box.

If you have a problem regarding this input box, then you might present the exact type of information to the technical support by calling it an input box so the problem can be directly solved.

Button.
A rectangle box that can be click, and when you click on this rectangle box, it perform a process. As an example when you to print your document, after pressing the Print menu and then followed by the OK button, your document start to be printed.

When the color of the text in the button is gray out as it seems like inactive and nothing happens if you click on it, then a problem occurs.

Check box.
A small box that indicates multiple choices, such when you are completing a registration form then you were asked to select your hobby, several choices will be provided in that form.

By the time you click on it, a small ‘x’ will be displayed inside the box.
Radio button.

Almost the same as a check box, but radio button indicates a single choice.
Problems with check box and radio button are almost the same, which is if you click on that button there is no reactions.

If you try to describe the problems with your software to a technical support, make sure you mention the parts correctly to get a proper problem solving.

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