Parental Control Software to Monitor Children Activity at Mac OS

Activity Monitor for Mac project’s goal was to create a client-server system for monitoring PC on the system level for Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard). Project was developed with low-level programming utilizing: C/C++ and Objective C.

Technical features:

• Target platform: Mac Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard. 

• System services: Daemons developed using cross-platform C++.

• GUI: Cocoa framework, objective C.

• Data sources: Binary data storage.

• Communications: TCP sockets, named pipes.

• Setup: PackageMaker.

Business-logic features:

• Hidden monitoring of user activity on the system level.

• Analyzing of the digital content.

• Logging user activity history to the server side.

Management and resources:

• Time line: 2009 - 2010

• Resources: manager, developers and testers 

• Development methodology: adopted RUP