The Good
* Has very nice animations/graphics and sound effects which will appeal to children.
* Has five different categories of things for children to do: visit websites, watch "TV", play games, learn, and draw.
* Each category comes with many activities by default, so parents need not configure everything manually.
* Parents are allowed to add (or remove) custom entries to (or from) the websites, games, education, and drawing categories.
* Program can be password protected in multiple ways.

The Bad
* Tooltips in the program won't show properly.
* Not a very good tool for the purposes of "Parental Control".
* Parents can't add (or remove) channels to (or from) the "TV" category.

For final verdict, recommendations, and full review please click here.

Ashraf  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+59)

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Doesn't seem to work except as a browser overlay. Pressing "Watch TV" made nothing change in the window. Nothing happened with "Games" or "Art."

It merely offers a batch of pre-selected kid websites like WB Kids or Sesame Street or Disney that take you to those websites within the browser overlay.

$24.95 for that? You've got to be kidding. I question it even for free.

gary  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+54)

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Fix for broken Buttons:

The GoTD install apparently does not contain all that is necessary to run the program. The website window associated with the 5 buttons: Main, TV, games, education, draw - does not open.

Install the trial version from the website.
tp://www.kidcoaster.com/

Then install GoTD. If you do it in this order, the GoTD version removes the trial version left overs on reboot.

Robert  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+50)

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Hello everybody!

The build has been replaced. Please re-download the package to get full-functioning version of KidCoaster.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Giveaway of the Day project team

Giveaway of the Day project team  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+29)

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This looked interesting enough to install and have a look at. It looks good, the Options appear to be excellent and well thought out.

However, although the Tooltips display correctly, the Navigation Buttons on the Bottom don't work at all. So the only category of activity I can access is TV, which I presume to be the default as the TV button is the 2nd one from the left.

I also wasn't fussed on all the TV links going to American sources, I don't live in the US, so those sites are of little interest. Whether I can find enough other sites that could be used to replace the default ones remains to be seen :)

Overall, a disappointing download.

vbmds  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+25)

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