Tuesday, May 20, 2008

What is Glubble?


It is a add-on for Mozilla to designed a browser for kid's use. The file size is just around 1MB, it will request you to register your account and also your kid's name after the installation...



This is a simple interface your kid will see on the monitor. One pop-up fullscreen that covered up whole window screen, you wont see the taskbar (unless you press "window logo" key). Glubble allows you to monitor webpage you kid wanna to visit....And the keyword they wanna to search.

Let's see i what result i got by key in "rapidshare.de" in the address bar

It prompt to ask the permission of my father ( i am the "Uncle Lim", i am not that old yet) and also the reason why...

Let say i log with "Uncle Lim", and my kid called "Smuffie" (Actually is my pet's name), she request for the permission. I can press Deny or Ignore.


Switch back to the Smuffie's interface and try to search the keyword "rapidshare" in google (My kid is smart enough to know what is google about), let seee.....


The result got totally altered....i got nothing! How about i love disney cartoon very much, try to search with Disney

Well, this is not the result i wanna to get! And why should i ask my dad about "disney"?



As conclusion....

What should be improve?
- google result altered to protect kid's, but the result is less accuracy of what kid really looking for, they couldnt even use search "wikipedia" in google....i not sure should what filter level should it be...
- since google result is totally altered....why not just come out a place where the kid can type in something like "Ask the Dr Owl", what they ask....they they hope to get the result...
- Google imaging search in Glubber crashed the Mozilla browser twice and not managed to try it
- It would be good if it come with a "Loading bar" or some "loading" indicator rather depends on the small tiny vista loading cursor...

Anyway...it is still a good try....

If you looking for something free browser to protect your kid to reveal to the Evilness of Internet....go to Glubble and download it..