{"id":1433,"date":"2010-02-26T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2014-08-13T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:46:52","slug":"intego-contentbarrier-compared-to-apples-mac-os-x-parental-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/intego-contentbarrier-compared-to-apples-mac-os-x-parental-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Intego ContentBarrier Compared to Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X Parental Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">NOTE: A version of this article is now available for OS X Mavericks Parental Controls\u00a0vs.\u00a0Intego Family Protector\u00a0X8.\u00a0Please refer to this article instead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #7baf30;\" title=\"How Does Intego Family Protector Compare to Mac OS X\u2019s Built-In Parental Controls?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/how-does-intego-family-protector-compare-to-mac-os-xs-built-in-parental-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">How Does Intego Family Protector Compare to Mac OS X\u2019s Built-in Parental Controls<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes parental controls, which allow parents to choose some limits regarding what their children can access while using their Macs. Intego ContentBarrier is a fully-featured parental control program that offers many more options and features than Apple&#8217;s built-in solution. The following is a comparison of the two parental control systems, showing why Intego ContentBarrier remains far superior to Apple\u2019s parental controls in Snow Leopard.<\/p>\n<p>ContentBarrier is available in Intego\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/internet-security-barrier\/\">Internet Security Barrier X6<\/a> suite.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve prepared a document showing the features in ContentBarrier and comparing them with Apple&#8217;s built-in features. 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