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Released 3.29.2001

My Kidster v1.8 & My Kidster Plus v1.9 talking browsers were developed, for the parents of children in the approx. age group(s) of 4 to 12 year olds, with several objectives in mind. The first objective was to develop a web browser that gives you, the parent(s), complete control over what their child can or can not view on the web along with some monitoring capabilities if elected to activate them. The second objective was to create a browser that your child can easily learn computer skills in a fun and exciting way. In other words to make a browser just for the child that will be his or her very own while giving mom or dad the ability to customize the content the child can or can not view.

The browser has a "fun and colorful" theme, that your kids will enjoy, as well as an antimated parrot (Microsoft© Peedy) that will become their web surf' n friend which has the ability to speak the loaded web page to them on demand.

Take a look at the browser theme, by clicking to enlarge, here >>>

Here's a screen shot of "Helpster" which delivers help in a fun, inter- active and humanist way >>>

Here is a screen shot of the Kidster "bookmark" system. Every icon represents a "bookmark" that your child has selected. Navigate to the site by clicking the icon. >>>

The security features of Kidster are accessed via a password protected "control panel" that gives the parent the control over the following:

• If a web page attempts to load that contains any of the words that you the parent select to block, then the browser is re-directed to a "Sorry but this page is blocked due to content" web page. Thus not allowing your child to view any web page that contains any of the "blocked" words or content without talking to mom or dad. Disclaimer: this can never be 100% due to sites programmed using "Flash" and pure graphic content as there are no words to search for and to block.

• Comes with a short file of words to block but you, the parent, have the ability to add, delete, edit any word to block via the control panel. Delete them all if you like and this browser will not block any sites. It's your kid and you are in charge!

• You have the option of viewing a file, that is appended to every time a "block" web site is about to be loaded but re-directed. The file records the time, date, web site title, and the word the page contained that caused the "block" action.

• Gives the parent the option of disallowing pop up windows that the porn sites are famous for. This is not 100% as the porn sites have figured ways around this via programming.

A shot of the My Kidster v1.8 password protected parental control panel (Kidster Plus includes key logger options) >>>

My Kidster Plus v1.9 also features an option to activate a "key logger", that captures and records to file, every keystroke that the child makes during the browsers activation. This is a handy tool if you are concerned about what's going on within those chat rooms that kids love to frequent. Spying? Hey, it isn't spying to have the information required to teach your child the "pit falls" of giving personal information out on the web!