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Baby Safe II - 2.1.6

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All Time:	(3.2)
Version 2.1.6:	(3.0)
Selected Version:	2.1.6
Release Date:	2004-03-31
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 2.1.6):	804
Downloads (all versions):	3,997
Price:	$20.00

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Product Description:

Baby Safe is an interactive program for Mac OS X 10.2 and above (10.3 OK) that provides a 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 you run Baby Safe II, it displays basic geometric shapes, the alphabet, numbers and pictures as the baby or toddler hits the keyboard or uses the mouse. Sounds are also used to teach the alphabet and the numbers. While Baby Safe II is active your work is safe and your baby can have some fun and learn a little bit.

Baby Safe II uses the whole screen, and it prevents application switching, Expose, the Dock and the menu bar from appearing. The power key is also disabled while Baby Safe II is running so there is no way to get out of the program until you type a special word. Babies (and cats I am told) are therefore free to play around on the computer.

Once a special word such as "byebye", "adios", "quit", "exit", "ciao" or "au revoir" is typed, Baby Safe II stops the animation and returns the menu and Dock to you. The chances of a baby typing that exact sequence of letters is very, very low.

The best thing to do is to setup Baby Safe II on your Dock, so that you can get to it quickly when you see the baby approaching you. The first time you run Baby Safe II openj the preferences (after typing byebye).

In the Preferences you have options to show your own pictures or not, how often, use sounds, musical chords, and more. The option to run at login can be used when your computer is set to login automatically at startup, should the baby press the power key and turn on the computer Baby Safe II will run automatically. Now that Baby Safe II is an application we can expand the program with mini games or other things, so send us your ideas. We are considering an option to monitor the mouse so that if you set it in a specific corner then we run Baby Safe II, as the old screen saver used to do.

Baby Safe II is Shareware, it costs 20 U.S. dollars after a 15 day trial period.

What's new in this version:

Fixed a crash, specially on 10.2 systems where the program was not ready to display a dialog about the trial notice or the expiration of the program

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.1.6:
Overall Rating:	(3.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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offers much more than AlphaBaby - Version: 2.1.6, 10/8/2004 10:25AM PST

Lone Mac

AlphaBaby is a nice little program, and its price is right, but the shapes and sounds it uses are very simple, and did not hold my toddler's interest for long.
BabySafe offers a much richer experience:
- letters and numbers the child hits on the keyboard are displayed on the screen and spoken with charming sampled childrens' voices
- photographic images of people, animals, and objects of interest to toddlers are displayed on the screen
- if so configured, pictures from your iPhoto library will also be displayed on the screen, as well, a particularly nice feature
BabySafe II has been stable for me, and my daughter loves it. I like to use it as a learning tool, naming the pictures displayed or (now that she's older) asking her to name them. My only complaints would be:
- it can run sluggishly on my PowerBook G3/400, getting far behind on processing keystrokes, and making me wait to exit the protected mode
- it is certainly not impossible that a toddler will at random type one of the many supported words for exiting the protected mode
- at times it can be too compelling; I can't get my computer back!

Try AlphaBaby - Version: 2.1.6, 4/1/2004 05:18AM PST

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DonSL777

I'm not going enter a star rating here, but I would strongly urge people looking for another alternative to Baby Safe II to try AlphaBaby instead. It's a rock-solid application without any technical flaws.

AlphaBaby is literally the ONLY application I have ever seen on VersionTracker with more than 3,500 downloads with a five-star rating. It seems that everybody needing an application like AlphaBaby loves it (including me).

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19998

Oh, one more thing. AlphaBaby is freeware, unlike this one at $20.

Expose BIG Big - Version: 2.1.6, 3/31/2004 02:24PM PST

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Capt. Mac

Agree with the post below. I installed and it seems to rewrite expose prefs. I would MUCH rather have it leave expose alone, if I want to disable it, let me do it. Don't rewrite our prefs for us. I understand the author is trying to disable it so the kid users doesn't have a way out but I will disable it if I want to please.