If you are working in a multi-user office or in a room that people may enter unannounced, you’d probably like an option to hide what’s shown on the screen when that happens. Maybe you like buying gifts for someone online, like to surf on a site that you are not allowed to access, or do [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

They come under many names, boss key, panic button or anti boss to name a few. Computer users can make use of these applications to quickly switch from their current desktop view to one that is hiding specific windows, applications or everything. That’s helpful for instance while visiting websites during work that are not work [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

You sometimes may not want that others see what site you are visiting currently. That’s not so much a problem at home but at public places like work, libraries, Internet cafes or airports. Switching manually to a safe website takes time, even if it is open in another tab in the web browser. Even worse, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

After many months of pressure, social networking site Facebook has agreed to put a panic button for children and teenagers, according to the BBC. The button will reports abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online protection Centre (CEOP) and to Facebook administrators. The move follows months of negotiations between CEOP and Facebook, who initially [...]

Categories: Online Services

A Panic Button or Boss Key is a software program that will hide certain visible elements on the computer screen when it is pressed. The software applications usually hide windows and programs that are running at the moment the panic button is pressed. Dad’s Around is a panic button software that was created as a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows