Sunday, February 20, 2011

Monitor User Activities on Your Mac

Whether you are a concerned parent, husband/wife or a business owner curious about the activities on your Mac computers, the two methods below will help you monitor the user activities on your Mac.


METHOD 1

You can use Parental Controls in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 to help monitor different user activities such as websites, applications and iChat.
The following tips describe how this feature works.
  1. Log on to your computer with an administrator account.
  2. Open "System Preferences" by clicking on the icon in the dock.
  3. Go to the "Parental Controls" control panel underneath the "System" heading.
  4. Click on the lock in the lower-left corner of the screen and enter your administrative username and password.
  5. Select the account you want to monitor from the list on the left side of the control panel window.
  6. Go to the "Logs" tab at the top of the window. The control panel will now display all of the websites and applications that the account has accessed within the last week.
Note:
  1. You have to be the admin of the Mac and Parental Controls cannot be enabled for administrator accounts.
  2. Mac OS X 10.4 has no "Logs" feature in its Parental Controls so that this way can only be used in Leopard and Snow Leopard.
METHOD 2

A better approach is to use a Keylogger for Mac. Aobo Keylogger for Mac, which supports Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and later, enables Mac owners to view all keystrokes, websites, passwords, screenshots, applications and chats - monitor all user activities.

It can be installed to any user account you want to monitor, including administrator accounts. Once you set it up on the user account you want to monitor, it works automatically and stealthily with the login of the user account.



Monitoring Features of Aobo Keylogger for Mac:
  • Record keystrokes typed on any applications.
  • Record website visits from Safari and Firefox.
  • Record desktop screenshots in a preset interval.
  • Record both-side Aim/Adium/iChat/MSN/Skype chats.
  • Record passwords (Professional Edition).
Anyway, if you want to monitor user activities on your Mac, the easy ways mentioned above are your best choices.

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