Watcher is a useful Mac application that allows you to set up parental control features on your system or on a system from your network. With the help of this piece of software you can easily block or limit the access to any application you might have installed on your Mac. This tool can come in handy in various situations, especially when dealing with children who are using your system or networked computers.
After launching and configuring the Watcher (you will have to select a non-watchable account), you will be greeted by a user-friendly and intuitive interface, from where you can start blocking or limiting the access to the desired applications. First of all, you will need to select the user account (both local and remote accounts) you want to watch and, once you have done that, you will be able to either limit the usage of the entire system or only to specific programs. With the help of this tool you can add credits (which will indicate the amount of time the user can access the system or the chosen application) each morning from Monday to Friday or during week-ends or you can manually provide a usage time frame.
Furthermore, if you have recently installed a new application on your Mac and it is not found by the Watcher, you can easily add it with just a few clicks of a mouse and set the desired limitations. In addition to this, this tool can even help you set up disk usage restrictions. This way, you can specify how much disk space the selected user can use and if it exceeds the chosen size, the user will be asked to delete files or else the session will close. more
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