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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Locate Stolen PC, Camera, Mobile With Anti-Theft Software
After having spent a fortune on acquiring addictive gadgets such as a mobile phone, laptop or camera you can't let it slip away so easily. But there are thieves out there waiting for an opportunity to outwit you and escape with your precious gadget.
Not anymore. Even if it gets lost on a jungle it will find its way back home. Thanks to anti-theft software installed inside. This post looks at the latest options available to protect your gadgets.
Eye-Fi Card Catches Camera Thief
Eye-Fi user Alison DeLauzon lost $1,000 worth of photo gear while on holiday in Florida. An ordinary camera would be lost forever. The camera and the memories stored inside.
The Eye-Fi SD card, a virtual private eye sprang a surprise on her.Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability it automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer and also uploaded photos of the miscreants who had stolen it.
Eye-Fi is a 2-gigabyte SD memory card that is priced at $100. Get one and find the culprits yourself.
Source - Reuters
Locate Stolen PC
LocatePC is a free theft recovery software for your PC. Don't lose sleep over a stolen PC. Locate its existence without even seeking help from the men in blue.
LocatePC is free software, and runs unobtrusively on your computer, with no icons, popups or saved emails. If your computer is stolen then the thief will not even know that LocatePC is running, and as soon as they connect to the internet a secret email is sent to you containing the details that you need to track your hardware.
LocatePC runs on Windows Vista/XP/Me/98. You just need a POP email account for LocatePC to send you email.
Anti-Theft for Mobile Phones
A group called GadgetTrak, of Beaverton, Oregon, has developed PhoneBak, a software that allows phone owners to have their phones "call them" in the event they are lost or stolen. It gathers all the info for you. As soon as another SIM is inserted into your phone, you would know the new number, the GSM Area Code and the Cell ID that gives you the exact location of the phone.
The starting price of this software is $24.95
Source - GadgetTrak
Not anymore. Even if it gets lost on a jungle it will find its way back home. Thanks to anti-theft software installed inside. This post looks at the latest options available to protect your gadgets.
Eye-Fi Card Catches Camera Thief
Eye-Fi user Alison DeLauzon lost $1,000 worth of photo gear while on holiday in Florida. An ordinary camera would be lost forever. The camera and the memories stored inside.
The Eye-Fi SD card, a virtual private eye sprang a surprise on her.Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability it automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer and also uploaded photos of the miscreants who had stolen it.Eye-Fi is a 2-gigabyte SD memory card that is priced at $100. Get one and find the culprits yourself.
Source - Reuters
Locate Stolen PC
LocatePC is a free theft recovery software for your PC. Don't lose sleep over a stolen PC. Locate its existence without even seeking help from the men in blue.
LocatePC is free software, and runs unobtrusively on your computer, with no icons, popups or saved emails. If your computer is stolen then the thief will not even know that LocatePC is running, and as soon as they connect to the internet a secret email is sent to you containing the details that you need to track your hardware.
LocatePC runs on Windows Vista/XP/Me/98. You just need a POP email account for LocatePC to send you email.
Anti-Theft for Mobile Phones
A group called GadgetTrak, of Beaverton, Oregon, has developed PhoneBak, a software that allows phone owners to have their phones "call them" in the event they are lost or stolen. It gathers all the info for you. As soon as another SIM is inserted into your phone, you would know the new number, the GSM Area Code and the Cell ID that gives you the exact location of the phone.The starting price of this software is $24.95
Source - GadgetTrak
Labels: Electronics-Communications-Engineering, Safety
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