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Having parental control over the Internet is an extremely difficult undertaking.
Just a few months ago, I wrote about aDNS-based web filtering serviceby OpenDNS.
But if none of those solutions seem right for you, you might want to try Qustodio.
And best of all, its entirely free!
When you visit the Qustodio site and clickDownload, youll automatically start to download an installer file.
Double-clicking on that installer file will begin the installation process.
The total time of installation?
Less than 5 minutes.
Qustodio needs to be installed individually on every computer that wishes to be protected.
However, by design, Qustodios control is centralized on the web.
The online dashboard is split into two sections, the first of which is anActivity Summary.
The tabular setup of the dashboard makes it easy to navigate between and through each user and each unit.
What kind of data does Qustodio track?
Heres what I can glean from a first glimpse of the dashboard:
How often is Qustodios summary updated?
On average, the page says that you might expect the data to refresh once every 3 hours.
Im not sure if theres a way to manually push an update, which would be a useful feature.
As a parental control program, the centralize dashboard is extremely well-designed and deserves applause.
On the one hand, weve got monitoring which weve just discussed.
There are a number of ways to do this, each with its own advantages.
Once those hours are used up, hes out of luck until the next day.
Qustodio allows you to determine what happens:
For a free program, Qustodio is quite impressive.
It is most definitely worth a try, at least.
