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Glubble - Parental Control for Firefox

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

ReadWriteWeb has a nice writeup on Glubble, a Firefox plugin for Parental control. It has some nice features including,

 Glubble lets you set up child accounts in two flavors: for kids who can read, and kids who can’t. The main difference is that the pre-read accounts, as they are called, don’t display a URL and search bar, so kids instead navigate by clicking on icons and links to pre-defined sites.

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Glubble comes preloaded with a set of approved websites. These include kid friendly sites like Fisher Price, Barbie.com, Animal Planet, Disney, and Nickelodeon. It also appears that every site in the Yahoo! Kids Directory is available for kids protected by Glubble (at least, every site I clicked on worked). Yahoo! Kids lists over 57,000 web sites in its directory, so there are a fair number to get started with.

So lock up your Internet Explorer and go Glubble.

Posted in Software, glubble, parentalcontrol, safety | 2 Comments »

No PCs or hand baggage on UK flights for the rest of the weekend?

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

The UK Home office posted an alert today on its website, that includes these draconian measures,

All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports.

The only items that may be taken through airport security search points and in to the cabin, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, are the following:

  • pocket-size wallets and pocket-size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards, etc - handbags are not allowed.
  • travel documents essential for the journey (eg, passports and travel tickets)
  • prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (eg, diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic
  • spectacles and sunglasses, without cases
  • contact lens holders, without bottles of solution
  • for those travelling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags)
  • female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (eg, tampons, pads, towels and wipes)
  • tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs
  • keys (but not with electrical key fobs)

Nothing may be carried in pockets.

So no PCs, backpacks or munchies.

I see a lot of very disgruntled users trying to boot mashed up PCs in the next few days.

The measures are expected to stay in place throughout the weekend.

This is due to events this morning when the UK police disrupted a major plot to blow up ten or more aeroplanes leaving Heathrow. More news on the bbc website.

Posted in Security, Software, safety | 2 Comments »

Road Deaths In Ireland

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Chilling Map of Road Deaths in Ireland in 2006.

Posted in People, Software, economics, ireland, irishblogs, maps, roads, safety | 1 Comment »