{"id":730,"date":"2007-11-26T06:59:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=730"},"modified":"2007-11-26T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T11:59:28","slug":"glubble-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2007\/11\/26\/glubble-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Glubble: a review."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I promised a review<\/a>…<\/p>\n

So… it’s cool and all, but not for our family.<\/p>\n

First of all, if you plan to use it, I highly suggest putting in on a computer or profile you won’t often use. It uses Firefox, and it will lock yours if you install it on your profile.\u00a0 I\u00a0 found it very time consuming to manage the favorites list for three kids.\u00a0 You can favorite something for all three at once, but then you have to go into each child’s profile and tweak it to get rid of the stuff that Glubble has deemed safe to begin with (Sorry Glubble.\u00a0 Pokemon isn’t in our house.)\u00a0 and there is no way to change the start page.\u00a0 so if you block something they had deemed “safe” because you don’t really like it *cough Sponge Bob cough*,\u00a0 the icon is still there, taunting your kids.\u00a0 I also found it frustrating when I wanted to block a small portion of a website, yet due to the way the website was setup, I couldn’t or I’d be blocking what I wanted the kids to use (honestly, not Glubble’s fault).\u00a0 The thumbnails at the top for the little kids, while it worked great for showing thePinkDiva where to go next, they took up so much screen space, even when collapsed.\u00a0 Suddenly you couldn’t see the whole game at Starfall.com<\/a>, and had to scroll up and down to get to the places to click.\u00a0 Not cool.\u00a0 Plus, the thumbnails didn’t always generate, so we were left big empty spaces and no way of knowing where the link pointed until we clicked.\u00a0 But hey! At least it was all parent approved, right?<\/p>\n

I can see how this would be great for a family with young kids who haven’t been on the internet yet. \u00a0 The parental controls are awesome, especially if you’ve got kids you can’t trust not to be looking for naughy things online.\u00a0 All but what you the parent have approved, is blocked.\u00a0 And if your kid wants access, they have to email you for permission, or call you over to the computer to give them access.<\/p>\n

But for our family, well, our kids are geeks.\u00a0 This browser, and yes, Glubble hijacks Firefox into something totally different so it is almost like a new browser,\u00a0 but this one just irritated my 4 year old.\u00a0 My 4 year old, people.\u00a0 So for us, we’ve reverted back to Firefox.\u00a0 But I can trust my kids (for now).\u00a0 They only go to the places I’ve bookmarked in their toolbars, mostly Nick Jr.<\/a>, Starfall<\/a>, and Sesame Workshop<\/a>.\u00a0 The big one, GeekBoy, is just now starting to venture out into Lego.com<\/a> and a few other sites.\u00a0 But he still asks permission.\u00a0 And really, by the time they stop<\/em> asking permission, Glubble won’t be any help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I promised a review… So… it’s cool and all, but not for our family. First of all, if you plan to use it, I highly suggest putting in on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family_life","category-randomness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}