Using OpenDNS.com to protect your family
I was a little surprised that someone I talked to last night hadn't heard of this amazing service, and even more surprised that I hadn't blogged about this before.
If you have a router at home - and surely most of my audience does - you need to set it to use OpenDNS.
Do it today. It's free furchrissakes.
There are many reasons why it's a good thing from a technical point of view, being faster to access and faster to update than your current DNS server. But that's not the biggest reason why you should do it.
You have a family? OpenDNS is a beautifully simple way to stop any bad content getting into your house. There is no setup to do on anyone's computer. Since all traffic flows through OpenDNS you use their control panel to literally stop anyone viewing porn, drugs, gambling, even politics(!).
There's nothing they can do to get around it, unless they have admin access to your router. Although I use Vista's parental controls too on my smallest kids, I wouldn't rely on it. This router-level access means that I can't even view this stuff. 
