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"Trust between teenagers and parents can be a difficult balancing act. .. While parents have already started monitoring their teen's questionable behavior online, another significant way is monitoring cell phones. Top 3 tips for parents on how to monitor telephone usage are listed here:"

Some cybersafety tips for mobile phone use.

"Zenoss Core is free and open source software for monitoring applications, networks, servers and much more."

"OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management application platform developed under the open source model. It was designed from "day one" to monitor tens of thousands to ultimately unlimited devices with a single instance. It brings the power, scalability and flexibility that enterprises and carriers demand."

"A feature that has long been request by educators has finally arrived in iPad 2: video mirroring. Video mirroring shows exactly what's on your device's screen on a second display, like a projector, television, or monitor. We're used to video mirroring with laptops--many teachers do this everyday. iPad 2 requires either the Apple VGA Adapter or Apple Digital AV Adapter. The VGA adapter connects to most projectors while the digital adapter connects to HDMI, which is common on newer televisions. Apple Digital AV Adapter also outputs sound while the VGA adapter outputs only video to the display."

"Togetherville is a new type of online community specifically designed for kids 6 to 10. However, any kid under 13 can join. Kids play and connect with real-life friends and family in a safe, child-friendly place with parents and trusted adults close by, just like in a real neighborhood. The site mimics the experience of adult social networking sites, but it's age-appropriate and parent-monitored. "

"With Air Display, you can use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch as a wireless display, to extend your computer desktop. Setting up the app is as simple as downloading a client and selecting your iPad (running Air Display) from a pull-down menu in the Menu Bar."

This is a very easy and slick app to set up on your Mac, especially when you can drag your toolbars and panels onto the iPad or even your iPhone.

"Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices."