Kids Menu 2.5 review

Kids Menu is a launcher utility that is designed to give younger kids an At Ease style interface that will work on MacOS X (it also works under MacOS 7.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: KMac Software Buy Now Price: $10.00 Updated: 30 May 2005

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Kids Menu is a launcher utility that is designed to give younger kids an At Ease style interface that will work on MacOS X (it also works under MacOS 7.x thru 9.x). KidsMenu provide security that restricts exposure to the Finder, Dock and Menus.

Here are some key features of "Kids Menu":
Simple one-click access to any document or application.
Support for MacOS 9 & X "packages"
High degree of customization including:
- Button styles
- Text Fonts, Sizes, Styles & Colors
- Background colors & photos
- Category labels
- Event Sounds
Convenient one-click access to many features
Auto-launch applications
Trap the "Force-Quit" sequence
Have up to 20 categories of applications.
Text to Speech support
Speech recognition
Provide security to keep prying eyes out of the OS!

Limitations:
You can only create 2 categories
You can ony create a total of 10 buttons
A Shareware screen will be displayed each time KidsMenu is run.
Drag and drop of applications will not be supported.
The system will not automatically start in the "locked" state.

What's New:
Fixed problem of speech voice getting changed whenever the preferences were saved.
Added help tags / balloon help on several items that were previously missed.
Fixed problem of speech rate & pitch not getting implemented whenever the program started
Fixed problem of speech controls not displaying properly inside the preferences.