New Mac, Lion, Cloud and Parent Controls
Hello. I'm an old time Mac user, many Macs, many years - but have not yet left Snow Leopard, and don't have mobile devices other than laptops and iPods.
Here's my question: my neice and her hubby want to transition to Mac from Windows. They do have iPhones and iPod Touch. They also have children. They want to buy a new iMac for the family. So...they want to know about parental controls given that a). they will set up accounts for the kids on the iMac; b). they want parental controls for the Mac as well as iCloud access, and c). the kids' iPods will likely access the Cloud.
I have been searching for answers but not getting what I want since this is complicated given that both kids have an iPod touch (only the adults have the iPhones) and likely will have music and pictures going to the Cloud.
Can they set up parental controls on their new iMac for all these conditions?
PS. as an aside, because of situations like this, and the fact that after years of having a .mac then mobile me account and now out of luck since the Cloud replacement is off limits to lowly 10.6 users - I am begrudgingly about to upgrade my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro to Lion, then Mt Lion.
Thanks
Try starting up in Safe Mode (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455)
and see if the issue persists. If the issue goes away, then something
is getting loaded that is causing the problem that is not part of OSX itself.
Then need to remove the installed apps one by one until the culprit is
found.
If the issue still persists in safe mode, then it could be that your hard
drive may be corrupted and you may need to reinstall OSX or maybe
even reformat and reinstall.
As far as the mouse, I agree it may be a setting in or just a matter
of getting used to the mouse.
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