“Breaking Free” has published its 200th post!
When we hit our 100th post about 3 months ago I did a “Top 10” list of most popular posts. Here’s another list of the top 10 most read posts since then. Thanks to all of our regular readers.
As I’ve mentioned in previous entries, it’s quite an awesome task trying to reduce a person’s entire Internet use over a week’s time down to one number between 0 and 5, but basically that’s what we try to do with our ‘Quick Look.’
The algorithm that accomplishes this takes into account the scores of sites you [...]
This post has been a long time in the making. When Breaking Free went live back in the beginning of January one of my first posts responded to one Christian’s negative opinion of accountability software. I didn’t realize then what I know now: there are more detractors in the Christian community than I first thought.
In [...]
As I go about my daily business, one of the most common questions I get asked is “So, where do you work?” My response is generally something along the lines of “Well, I work at Covenant Eyes, a local software company, as their web developer.” This gets smiles, nods, glazed eyes, and invariably, the follow [...]
Covenant Eyes has recently more than doubled the staff responsible for the scoring system which provides a score for each of the URL’s visited by members. Plus, our programming staff has provided some incredible database analysis tools that will greatly improve scoring analysis.
The main complaint we get is that reports show false positives. [...]
My father-in-law died last November, and his pension was supposed to continue to his wife, my mother-in-law. No checks came until January. She deposited that check, and it quickly was sent back to the bank marked in big red letters “CANCELLED” - and her account was debited that amount, and of course was thereby overdrawn, [...]
Youtube video sites are everywhere on the Internet, and are showing up on almost everybody’s reports these days. I have been spending a couple of months researching youtube sites, and I believe there is no other program able to handle them as well as Covenant Eyes. So I thought I’d pass on some of the [...]
This is a recent email from a man named James:
Hi there,
I just want to express my thanks to the whole team at Covenant Eyes. You are doing a wonderful job! I’m impressed by the features and updates you add on a regular basis and the technical soundness of the program. I would also like to [...]
I recently received this email in my inbox from one of our Covenant Eyes members:
Hello,
My name is Brian and I have been using covenant eyes for about 3 years now. I have found the program to be invaluable for protecting my integrity online. It was so freeing to know that I was being [...]
Sometimes, what seems like a brilliant idea loses its luster the more people that see it. Our Report Rating - the large number that appears at the top of our new report format - was just such an idea.
We thought it would be great to have a summary number at the top of the report [...]
