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BabySafe - 1.75

protect Macs with interactive baby safe/fun environment

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All Time:	(3.8)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.75
Release Date:	2003-11-10
License:	Commercial
Downloads (this version):	2,215
Downloads (all versions):	6,474
Price:	$20.00

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Product Description:

Baby Safe is a screen saver for Mac OS X that provides an interactive and safe environment for your baby to play with the computer, while at the same time preventing your baby from causing chaos on your computer.

Once activated Baby Safe displays basic geometric shapes, the alphabet, numbers and pictures (some of yours as well) as the baby or toddler hits the keyboard or uses the mouse. Sounds are also used to teach the alphabet and the numbers.

While the screen saver is active your work is safe and your baby can have some fun and learn a little bit.

Once a special word such as "byebye", "quit" or "exit" is typed, the screen saver can exit. You may need to use your password to get back to the computer as it was before the screen saver was activated.

The best thing to do is to setup Baby Safe to be activated by placing the mouse in a corner, that way when the baby comes over you just move the mouse to a corner and your computer is Baby Safe. Baby Safe also displays some of your own pictures.

What's new in this version:

Fixed a bug where for some people, opening the System Preferences and opening the screen saver module would cause a crash for the System Preferences.
Note that under Jaguar the screen saver can be exited by pressing command-period or the power key regardless of what we do to avoid that. Apple was supposed to have fixed this for us and instead they managed to make it worse. So our next version will no longer be a screen saver to work around this issue. We were under the impression this two problems would be resolved with Panther, but as you can see we were wrong. We apologize for the inconvenience, please set a password for your account to minimize the effect of this.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

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What about - Version: 1.74, 9/2/2003 09:46AM PST

itsBob3

Drool on the keyboard, where are the settings for that?

I'm not impressed - Version: 1.74, 9/2/2003 07:37AM PST

jimbimbom

The idea is good, but the implementation is lacking. As someone else pointed out, the pictures should correspond with the letters. There should be a way to select the pictures folder. There should be a way to set the password, and the default should be the user password. The program isn't very responsive to keyboard imput. Kids should see the connection between their input and what appears on the screen. This might mean moving away from the model of one key representing one image. Smaller kids are just going to bang, rather than carefully selecting letters.

Nice idea but.. - Version: 1.74, 9/2/2003 04:40AM PST

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A Nony Mouse

This "baby safe" screen saver makes my iBook safe to pound on?? It allows me to keep them from my private files while providing a safe and fun environment for them to play with right? Well I tested this out and found it dipping into my ~/Home/Pictures folder for resources to flash onto the screen. It was kind of funny to see my porn library pop into view inside the "baby safe" world of learning. Oh yeah! I suggest you turn that off by default, author.

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Nice idea but..