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CYBERsitter Software Helps Kids Locate Missing Children.


SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1999--

Solid Oak Software, the makers of the popular Internet filtering program CYBERsitter(TM), are bringing pictures of missing kids to kids using CYBERsitter in hopes that they might be recognized.

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) is very effective in placing PSAs in national publications, but often times these are more likely to be seen by adults.

CYBERsitter has the built-in capability to redirect kids to a family friendly Web site when they encounter inappropriate content. Solid Oak has set up a special site to place in rotation that displays pictures and descriptions from NCMEC, exposing tens of thousands of children every month to the pictures of missing kids.

"Many times when a missing child is found, we hear that they have been leading seemingly normal lives, just like other kids," said Solid Oak Software President Brian Milburn. "Children abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point  by a family member may not even know that anyone is looking for Looking for

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 them. We're hoping that by bringing pictures of missing kids to the computers of other children, they might be recognized as a schoolmate, neighbor or even someone they play with in the park."

CYBERsitter is available for computers running Microsoft Windows See Windows.

(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then.
. A free trial version is available from Solid Oak Software's Web site at: www.cybersitter.com
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