[ryarber]

I'm looking for a filter for web content that I can run on MacOS X. Anyone know of any programs out there? I checked version tracker and there were only two listed and one of them was command line and I don't want to go there.

[DavidJHupp]

Try Kids GoGoGo by Maki Enterprise

http://www.makienterprise.com/kggg/kidsgogogo.html

It's fairly secure... to my knowledge it can only be disabled by an Admin user or root. It's also very inobtrusive (practically invisible). My only complaint is that when set to close the offending site, it closes the entire window, including any innocent tabs in tabbed browsing. It is available for both Mac OS Classic and OS X.

There are a couple other filters that I have little experience with:

KidServer and KidServer PE (also by Maki Enterprise) run as local proxy servers but can be used by other machines as well, even Mac OS Classic and Windows machines; PE can only be used on the local machine.
http://www.makienterprise.com/kidsserver/
http://www.makienterprise.com/kspersonal/

NetBarrier/ContentBarrier by Intego
--I don't know anything about these, but they are the only ones available from brick-and-mortar Apple Stores. They are available for both Mac OS Classic and OS X.
http://www.intego.com/netbarrier/
http://www.intego.com/contentbarrier/

Good Luck!

[Lebodde]

I faced the same dilemna recently and did a fair bit of research. Based on what I found out, ContentBarrier seems to be the best bet. I bought it and I am very pleased so far. It was a breeze to install and seems to work very well. It offer automatic net updates periodically.

I also looked at KidGoGo but I read a number of complaints about the interface (I think it's a translation from a Japanese software).

[DavidJHupp]

Maki Enterprise is a Japanese Company. There is no real disadvantage to this though, just the entertaining poorly translated documentation. The interfaces of their products are decent. KidServer is highly customizable to do much more than just ordinary filtering and can be administered from any browser. Kids GoGoGo can also set time restrictions on internet access and restrict access to specific applications (which you can also do natively on OS X). Kids GoGoGo is $30, and KidServer PE is $40, compared to $59 for ContentBarrier. KidServer costs $180 for a 1 year 5 user license.

Maki also offers a daily updated database for Kids GoGoGo for $24 per year. Unlike the default block lists, the Daily DB is hand harvested by Maki employees. I don't know how Intego's update software works.

I would highly recommend that you download Trial versions before buying. Both Maki and Intego offer free evaluation downloads from their websites.

ContentBarrier/NetBarrier seems the most polished of the products, but Kids GoGoGo, KidServer, and KidServer PE are also very good products. KidServer has the added advantage of being highly scalable. As far as price is concerned though , Maki seems the way to go.