useless – Parental Control Review

This is a totally useless implementation of a really important bit of functionality. Though I am torn about whether to use code to enforce this or not, I bought this to experiment with using code to limit screen time for my 7 year old. That should mean I set the time -- 1 hour, e.g. -- and it watches how long the machine is active (not sleeping), and blocks its being active for more than 1 hour in 1 day. This doesn't do that. Once you set the timer, it runs whether the machine is active or sleeping. SO it's fine if you want to say "you can play for the next hour" but not fine if you want to be able to control total time in a day. The alternative (setting up windows of times when it can be used) is also uselessly complex. Overall, given the price (and the fact I had to replace an original ipod so this program could run), not worth it.
Review by lessig on Parental Control.