Childproof Your Mac, with Mac OS X Lion

by Scott McNulty

Perhaps you have a couple of kids, and you want them to be able to use your Mac, but you don't want them to have access to certain Web sites or applications. That's where Parental Controls come in. Parental Controls allow you to create separate accounts for people and limit exactly what those account holders can do. You can even set the times during which one of those accounts is allowed to log in to Lion and limit the account holder's email or chat contacts. In this project, I show you how.This is a single short project. Other single short projects available for individual sale Manage passwords, with 1PasswordSecure your Mac, with Mac OS X LionSpruce up iTunes, by adding album art and lyrics and removing duplicate songsVideo conferencing, with Mac OS X LionPowering your home theater from your Mac In addition, many more projects can be found in the 240 page The Mac OS X Lion Project Book.

8 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

Scott McNulty is a simple geek who enjoys explaining things. He is the author of several technology books that cover everything from the Kindle Fire to WordPress.

When he isn't writing you'll find Scott reading words that other people have written. It pleases him.