Tracking your stolen laptop

[Wendig0]

God forbid this ever happens to you, but it does happen many times every day. You're at the airport, or a coffee shop, and you turn your back for a moment. When you turn back around your laptop is gone. Stolen.

I've searched many different makers of laptop tracking software, and found most to be fairly expensive in today's struggling economy. I found this one here recently, and tested it out with very satisfying results. I urge anyone in the market for laptop tracking software to give this open source version a try.

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html

Wendig0

 

[Tmagic650]

You could chain it to your wrist too

 

[Wendig0]

I thought about that, but figured it would attract Ninja assassins.

 

[Zsj]

you could hide a tracking sensor inside of it
and use a GPS to track it

 

[Wendig0]

That's just what the Ninjas would expect you to do. Besides, this is free software

 

[kristant]

cool!

Thanks for the advice... I have had my laptop for a year now and wish I would have bought the low jack add on for three years instead of one, as I have been searching for something reasonable.

K

 

[Wendig0]

You're very welcome. I was hoping that someone else might be able to benefit from it

 

[Leffememer]

I'm wondering if this would work with gps

 

[Wendig0]

That's very possible. It is open source, so even if it doesn't, if you have any programming knowledge you could try developing it.