Best Android monitoring apps for caring moms and dads

Hey caring moms and dads out there, we know at times you get so worried about the security of your kids. We can imagine, as our parents used to get concerned about us when we were kids. They used to ask us about our activities, our social circle and other details, too.

Today’s moms and dads are more worried and more careful about their kids’ security. The reason is the change in the trends of communication and use of technology. Maybe you are tech savvy but your kids are even more than you. What’s more it rarely happens that your kids go to their friend’s home in case they need a book. Today if they need it, they just go online and download it. The concept of one to one communication is getting blurred.

So, caring moms and dads, today we’ll share with you the top Android apps that can reduce your worries and can provide you instant relief with their unique features for sure.

SecuraFone

With SecuraFone app you can track the exact location of your kids. The good news is that it can even tell you how fast they are driving; this app can use built-in GPS of Android devices. It also offers SecureFences feature that will notify you in case your child goes beyond the designated geographical area. With securafone parents can view 90 days map data and can access reports including history and addresses of all the alerts sent by the app.

According to statistics, 11 teenagers die each day in the United States, while texting and driving. With SecuraFone installed on your Android phones you can help to protect your teenager from potential damage.

Other services include

• Help save lives
• Provide speed alerts
• Can connect people with emergency services

StealthGenie

This Android monitoring app can simultaneously work as a GPS tracker and a cell phone monitor. The best part about this app is that your kids are not going to know that they are being monitored. Yes, it is 100% undetectable. To ensure your child’s safety, StealthGenie offers following exclusive features to its users:

• Monitor call logs.
• Look at instant messenger chats e.g. WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, BBM, and Facebook.
• Look at location history.
• Track the GPS location.
• Monitor internet activities.
• View list of installed apps.
• Listen to call recordings
• View incoming/outgoing emails.
• Look at multimedia including photos and videos.

Geo-Fencing is one of the best features that can send you instant alerts both via email or SMS in case your kids enter in the area that you have marked as restricted zones or safe zones. Now you don’t need to worry that your kids can be the victim of cyber bullying or some online predator can harm your kids. You have remote access to your kid’s phone. You can even send remote commands that can lock the phone and can wipe out the phone data.

FamilyTracker

What can be better than the use of a GPS tracking app that can not only tell you about your kid’s location, but can also tell you the whereabouts of your entire family? Family tracker app lets parents keep tabs on anyone they want, but the other person needs to accept the tracking request once. Family tracker app allows one to send a Stealth Ping that can update the location of the remote device without notifying that person. In case the phone is rebooted, it can also resume tracking automatically.

With family tracker app installed, you can

• Track phones via webs
• Track lost or stolen phone
• Force a sound of the phone if silent or on vibration

Your choice can be any, but don’t forget that it is essential to take care of your kids and monitoring is the best choice. Whether its cyber bullying or online dating abuse, no one wants their kids to be targets. You know, according to the FBI statistics, more than 50% victims of online sexual exploitation are 12-15 years old. There are similar alarming statistics online too, that shows kids are vulnerable with threats of using too much smartphone.

Before it gets too late, start monitoring your kids now! You can boost your monitoring efforts by installing these apps.

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Ricoh’s new action cam isn’t a toy, even if it looks like one

When you’re in the market for an action camera, we’d imagine GoPro or Contour would be the first names that sprang to mind. Ricoh is hoping to crowbar itself onto your psychological roster, however, with the WG-M1, its latest ruggedized action camera. Looking more like the sort of spy compass you’d get for free on the front of a magazine, the hockey puck-style device offers a 14-megapixel CMOS sensor and a 6-element lens with an f/2.8 aperture. That’ll be good enough for 1080p video of you on your longboard hurtling through traffic at 30 miles an hour.

Holding it in the hand is an odd experience, thanks to the fact that the 1.5-inch LCD display is embedded in the “top” of the unit, so holding it requires a claw-like grip. Of course, it’s not really meant to be used as a traditional stills camera (although it can take 10-megapixel snaps), but as a video unit for extreme, sorry, EXXTREEEME environments. That’s why the field-of-view while taking video is an impressive 137 degrees, although that’ll increase to 160 degrees for stills.

Of course, everyone’s more concerned with how this device behaves out on the various slopes and tracks that you’ll be doing your sports upon. Certainly, the reinforced polycarbonate feels (with aluminum accents) feels sturdy, if a little immature, and we have no reason to doubt the company’s belief that it’d keep working in 10 meters of water, from drops of two meters and at degrees that are ten below zero (Celsius). We’re also glad that the WG-M1 comes with 100MB of built-in memory, which at least puts it above the GoPros, which won’t even take a single test image without you first supplying an SD card. If that’s enough to tempt you, then the unit will be landing in stores at some point next month, which should give you time enough to work out if the odd-shaped unit is worth spending some time with.

Bro, Steve Dent went hardcore for this post.

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Say hello to the FBI’s national facial recognition system

If you’ve ever been arrested in the United States, chances are strong that your fingerprints and criminal history are floating around in the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System. It’s apparently pretty good at what it does – it can sift through some 70 million subjects in search of a particular fingerprint in as little as half an hour – but it’s just not enough for the boys in blue. Thankfully for them (and maybe unfortunately for us), the FBI just announced that its sequel, the unimaginatively named Next Generation Identification system, is now “fully operational” some three years after the rollout began.

The NGI is meant to eventually replace the existing IAFIS system, but there’s much more to it than that. New features like Rap Back essentially provide notifications when people in “positions of trust” like bank tellers and teachers break the law so whatever authorities they hold might be upheld or revoked. And then we’ve got the Interstate Photo System, a tool that allows law enforcement to search for photos “associated with criminal identities” — sounds like a useful enough tool, but privacy advocates are a little uneasy for a whole host of reasons.

Take the very origin of those images: you can expect your mugshot to be in there, but if you apply for a job that requires your fingerprints or some sort of background check, you may need to submit a photo that could wind up in the NGI. There’s a big question about accuracy, too: the NGI will return a ranked list of candidates for a facial search, but the Bureau says “the candidate will be returned in the top 50 candidates” 85 percent of the time if the perp is actually in the list at all. What happens if that list doesn’t actually contain the right person? No one’s entirely sure, and that’s a little worrisome.

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Via: The Verge

Source: FBI

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Sound off! Has your phone replaced your camera?

Photokina is in full swing, which means you can expect all sorts of exciting photographic wizardry. However, with the cameras in our smartphones constantly improving, do you still find yourself needing dedicated hardware for capturing those special moments? For some of us, our mobile devices are enough (especially in this case). Head over to the forums and let us know if you’ve replaced your camera with a handset.

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