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Whether you are a concerned parent, husband/wife or a business owner curious about the activities on your Mac computers, the two methods below will help you monitor the user activities on your Mac.
METHOD 1
You can use Parental Controls in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 to help monitor different user activities such as websites, applications and iChat.
The following tips describe how this feature works.
- Log on to your computer with an administrator account.
- Open “System Preferences” by clicking on the icon in the dock.
- Go to the “Parental Controls” control panel underneath the “System” heading.
- Click on the lock in the lower-left corner of the screen and enter your administrative username and password.
- Select the account you want to monitor from the list on the left side of the control panel window.
- Go to the “Logs” tab at the top of the window. The control panel will now display all of the websites and applications that the account has accessed within the last week.
Note:
- You have to be the admin of the Mac and Parental Controls cannot be enabled for administrator accounts.
- Mac OS X 10.4 has no “Logs” feature in its Parental Controls so that this way can only be used in Leopard and Snow Leopard.
METHOD 2
A better approach is to use a Keylogger for Mac. Aobo Keylogger for Mac, which supports Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and later, enables Mac owners to view all keystrokes, websites, passwords, screenshots, applications and chats – monitor all user activities.
It can be installed to any user account you want to monitor, including administrator accounts. Once you set it up on the user account you want to monitor, it works automatically and stealthily with the login of the user account.
Monitoring Features of Aobo Keylogger for Mac:
- Record keystrokes typed on any applications.
- Record website visits from Safari and Firefox.
- Record desktop screenshots in a preset interval.
- Record both-side Aim/Adium/iChat/MSN/Skype chats.
- Record passwords (Professional Edition).
Anyway, if you want to monitor user activities on your Mac, the easy ways mentioned above are your best choices.
A cheating spouse will almost never admit to infidelity, unless presented with evidence to the contrary. Since they could be using email, instant messaging or internet chat rooms to communicate with their lovers on the Internet, we highly recommend Aobo Keylogger for Mac to eliminate doubt and worry over whether your spouse is cheating online or confront them with the evidence.
Aobo Keylogger for Mac, which is specially designed for Mac OS X users, allows you to see what your spouse does online and establish a record of his/her online activities.
Helpful features of Aobo Keylogger for Mac for catching a cheating spouse:
1. Recording both-side chat conversations of Skype, iChat, Adium, MSN and AIM – gives you a clear picture of which one your spouse is talking to and what he/she is talking about.
2. Recording websites visited in Safari and Firefox – passes information to you on what kind of websites your spouse is visiting. Are they dating websites?
3. Taking screenshots of the computer desktop – lets you know whether your spouse is video chatting.
4. Sending reports to a preset email address – militates in favor of backing up of the keylogger reports and it is easy for you to check logs anytime.
It’s often easier for you to work through the process if you turn to some outside help. Apply Aobo Mac Keylogger as that’s what it is in the business of doing! This is a tried and true technique that will help you to get the details that you require in this situation.
Instant online messaging is a great way to stay in touch and keep up to date with friends, which becomes such an integral part of children’s lives these days. Instant Messengers such as AIM, Skype and MSN open up so many educational and social opportunities, giving them access to, quite literally, a world of information and experiences.
No matter on a computer at school or on a laptop at home, children and young people are increasingly accessing the Internet and talking with online buddies whenever they can and wherever they are.
As you would protect your children in the real world, you will want to make sure that they are safe whatever they are chatting about. Like learning to cross the road, online safety skills are skills for life. So, how can you protect your child online?
There is at least one thing you can do that will make your child safer online. That is parental monitoring. When you understand what your children are talking about and who they are talking to, you are able to predict potential dangers and nip them off.
What you need is an instant messaging keylogger for chat conversation recording. For Mac OS X users, Aobo Keylogger for Mac is one of the best choices since it can successfully pick up iChat, AIM, MSN, Skype and Adium chats. When your children talk to Facebook friends with iChat, AIM or Adium, the both-side conversation will be recorded as well. Apart from that, the keylogger will log Yahoo Messenger, ICQ and all other instant messenger chats typed on your kids’ end.
Taking an active role in your kids’ Internet activities and getting to know what they do with instant messenger will help ensure that they benefit from the wealth of valuable information it offers without being exposed to any potential dangers. Instant Message Parental Keylogger for Mac will help you do it.
Scams cover all over the world. As the expansion of the Keylogger for Mac market, a lot of swindlers are mushrooming into the newly developed field. To help Keylogger for Mac users avoid being taken in, we will illustrate some common Keylogger for Mac scams.
1. Keylogger for Mac that can be installed remotely.
There are keyloggers for PC supporting remote installation but Keylogger for Mac are NOT remote installation supportive at present. But some Aobo Keylogger for Mac have the feature of sending log reports so that users can read logs remotely and Aobo is still in developing of the remote version Keylogger for Mac. Providers who claim that remote installation is featured in their Keylogger for Mac are all scammers currently.
2. Free trial is different from the purchased version.
In order to increase the sales volume, many Keylogger for Mac sellers will provide a free trial which comes from Aobo Keylogger for Mac company. And the keylogger they are actually selling is something totally different from Aobo Keylogger for Mac. Please check and compare the screenshots of the keyloggers for selling and the free trial to refrain from the scams. To get the real version of Aobo Keylogger for Mac, please download or purchase it from our official website:
http://www.keylogger-mac.com
http://aobo.cc
3. Trial is available only after registering other products.
Some Keylogger for Mac vendors will ask you to register its partners’ products to provide the so-called free trial. However, these products are either useless or expensive. Most of vendors who do like this don’t deliver the free trial at all. Even if some of them provide trial for users, it will take a great many moves to finish the free trial application, which wastes a lot of time.
I believe that the number of Keylogger for Mac scams that are in process or in brewing is far above three, and the tricks can be conducted in various measures. Please be careful when you purchase Keylogger for Mac online.
You can also trust these sites to download Aobo Mac Keylogger:
http://www.keylogger4u.com
http://www.parental-controls-software.net
http://www.mac-spy-software.com
http://download.cnet.com/
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Aobo Software, the global award-winning company of spy and access control software, announced the release of Aobo Keylogger for Mac 3.3 on December 6, 2010.
What is Aobo Mac Keylogger?
Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger is a piece of spy software targeting the Mac platform that can be used to monitor all of your activities on your computer. This keylogger can be applied by parents and employers to gain access to your Mac activity. Some people also use it to catch a cheating spouse.
What Can You Do With Aobo Mac Keylogger?
l Monitor your Children
Curious children often search for inappropriate content or chat with bad guys online. Now with the Mac keylogger you can know everything and protect them.
l Catch a cheating spouse
Have you suspected that your spouse is cheating on you? Why he/she cleans the tracks on the computer? Now with the keylogger for Mac he/she can’t hide anymore.
l Supervise your employees
Is your employee working or playing? Have you noticed a drop in productivity? Now you can know the truth with Aobo Keylogger for Mac OS X.
New Features of Aobo Mac Keylogger 3.3
- Record Skype conversations (both sides)
- Record AIM conversations (both sides)
- Record iChat conversations (both sides)
- Record Adium conversations (both sides)
- Record MSN conversations (both sides)
- Customize log location
- Customize screenshots quality
- Customize screenshots emailing
Compatibility:
- Fully supports Mac OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x and later
- Universal build (for both Intel and Power PC)
- Supports MacBook/iMac/PowerPC
About Aobo Software
Aobo Software is dedicated to the spy software and access control software development. To help users gain more control on their computers, Aobo never stops improving the current products and developing new applications, both for PC and Mac.
What new features and functions do you want in the next versions of Keylogger for Mac? According to the feedback of Aobo Keylogger for Mac users, the future versions of Aobo Keylogger for Mac will develop in the following two aspects.
Aobo Keylogger for Mac will develop as Mac OS X upgrades and new functions will be added to the Keylogger for Mac. Next, Aobo Keylogger for Mac will compatible with much more Mac versions and machines.
New features such as remote installation and screenshots quality controlling can improve user experience in the future. Aobo Keylogger for Mac will support recording both-side messages from more chat clients such as iChat, MSN, Facebook, Adium.
Meanwhile, the operation will become easier. Stealth problem of Keylogger for Mac is also taken into consideration, which will make Aobo Keylogger for Mac runs in a more stealthy status.
The basic features of the new Mac keylogger will be more than keystrokes logging, websites recording, screenshots capturing and reports sending. We will do our best to realize the key logging work and satisfy demands of Keylogger for Mac users.
The development plan of Aobo Keylogger for Mac results from users. Therefore, your feedback is greatly appreciated!
Many clients purchase too quickly without taking well consideration about selecting which keylogger edition. As a result, they have to upgrade purchase or switch to a different edition. To make sure every user understand which edition to use, Aobo will give some basic instructions about how to select a suitable edition between Standard and Professional here.
1. The Standard edition is 50% cheaper than the Professional edition, please consider your budget before purchase.
2. If you want to record password, please choose Professional edition. But be sure that you know the admin password of the target Mac before you purchase the Professional edition.
3. If you need to record the name of the program where the keystrokes are typed, please choose Aobo Mac Keylogger Standard edition which supports application name recording.
4. If you feel that you are not so familiar with Mac software installation, please choose the Standard edition. Standard is easy to install and use while the Professional is a little bit complicated for junior Mac users.
This is only a basic guide. If you have any further question, please turn to Aobo Mac Keylogger FAQ.
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If you install Aobo Mac Keylogger to a random folder instead of the folder we suggest in “ReadMe”, it will possibly encounter log and email problem because of your access privileges to the folder. For example, when you click “View the Logs” in General tab, nothing shows up. Lack of permissions will also lead to the problem of no log email.
To fix the privilege problem, please follow the steps below.
1. Open the interface of the keylogger by hotkey.
2. Uncheck “Run keylogger every time your Mac starts”.
3. Reboot your Mac.
4. Copy the main program of Aobo Mac Keylogger into the folder we suggested.
5. Double click the program to run it.
6. Bring up the keylogger by hotkey and set it up.
Note: You may need to reboot your Mac after that.
Please type more than 100 characters and click “View the Logs” to test it.
Some Aobo Mac Keylogger users may run into the problem of not getting any emails. They will ask “why it happened” directly without giving any more details. Actually, the condition on your target Mac is complicated so that the keylogger’s performance varies.
To help users solve the email problem easily and quickly, we provide the following guide.
- Please make sure you check the “Run keylogger every time your Mac starts” on General tab of the keylogger. If this option is unchecked, the keylogger will stop working after your Mac rebooting.
- Please make sure your settings on Email tab are correctly as we suggested, or the email sending will fail.
- Please make sure the target Mac has Internet connection. It is understandable that the email cannot be sent without Internet connection so check it please when there is no email.
- Please make sure that your Mac doesn’t go to sleep mode. The keylogger will stop working and the email sending will be unavailable in sleep mode. To prevent this from happening, please turn off the sleep mode in /System Preferences/Energy Saver. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2412
- Please use a stable email service such as Gmail. Some email servers don’t work fine now and then or have great limitations on email size. This is also one of the factors affecting email function.
- Please make sure your logs in email attachment are not oversized. For example, if the screenshots interval is too short, the logs will be too large to be sent, because some email servers do not support large-size attachment. The screenshots interval should be more than 20 minutes.
- Please make sure you haven’t changed your email password. You may change your email password but forget to reconfigure it on the keylogger. Change your email settings of the keylogger when you change the email password please .
When you are sure that all the settings are correct, please click Send Test to check if the email function works fine. If the email still doesn’t work, please contact our Tech Support to solve the problem, we will help you as possible as we can.
Keylogger users may run into kinds of problems when purchase or use keylogger software. Today we will talk about what happened to my customers.
Once a new client complained to us that half a year ago he bought a keylogger from one of our competitors but found that it stopped working a few months later. When he approached the email support of the keylogger he was told that he needed to pay extra $69 per year to update the software to continue using it. He never heard about or read any announcement about its update policy anywhere before his purchasing. He took it as a scam and switched to Aobo Mac Keylogger which supports one-time payment and life-time use.
Our advice is that before you purchase a keylogger you should do enough homework. Do not just to see the low price and forget the quality of the keylogger and its service. A good way is to contact the software support to gain more information and install a trial before purchase. There are too many scams in present market. Please be cautious about purchasing online.
Some other customers had difficulties in installing or using Aobo Keylogger for Mac but they didn’t check the instructions in the order email or ReadMe file in the installation package carefully, and they didn’t turn to the Tech Support when they were still unable to solve the problem before it was too late. One of the users could not put the email-sending function of Aobo Keylogger into effect due to incorrect setup, but she never took it seriously until days ago she gave away the Mac to her son who is studying abroad in UK now.
We suggest every Aobo user should make sure your keylogger is correctly set up and works fine before you send away your Mac because Aobo Keylogger for Mac doesn’t support remote operation at present. Please contact the live support for assistance in time if you have any problem you cannot deal with during the keylogger installation or using.
The stories are only two tips about purchasing and using keylogger. In the later articles we will discuss more.
