Hey guys, so I'm writing today about a recent break in that occurred at my house on valentines day, i woke up at 1130 am to find an asshole running from my place with my laptop among other things this totally sucked, and i wanted to let everyone know about some great software that you should consider getting for your computers/laptops something i wish i had.
Now i was able to trace the laptop when it went online two times however the laptop was going online at public wifi access points and the police were unable to track it or the thief down. i was able to do this by using a fantastic piece of software i cannot live without called Log Me In at logmein.com its free and lets you remote control your computers even on iPhone or iPad this works on both mac and windows.
in my case when the computer goes online logmein logs the ip address and thats how i was able to obtain it and hand it over to police for them to get warrants.
Some awesome software that will really help you nail the thief Orbicule Undercover now this is a piece of software i really wish i had, it would allow me to take pics of the thief while on my laptop using the built in camera as well as screen shots so if they happen to be on Facebook you could get some really good info
a list of some programs can be found here at maclife
lucky for me i did not have any data like photos, however the biggest worry for me was the fact i was using xmarks to sync my bookmarks and passwords across all computers i use to make my life easier in this case it was a nightmare as a fellow adult webmaster you can just imagine how many passwords i have
Some great news on the mac front is that in the new edition for Mac OS X Lion - Find my mac will be available and let you do some of the features that other programs let you do. so im looking forward to that extra protection as well.
On a high note, house insurance covers me so i get to go out and grab me a brand new MacBook Pro and they just recently refreshed the line up so i couldn’t be happier
Cheers
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