Comments on: Protect Your Laptop in Public Spaces with an Alarm

By: Protect Your Mac Laptop from Thieves with iAlertU

Protect Your Mac Laptop from Thieves with iAlertU — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:46:41 +0000

[...] Earlier this morning I published “Protect Your Laptop in Public Spaces With an Alarm“, which described Windows software that would sound an alarm if your laptop were to be stolen. I also proposed that a good Mac version of that software might monitor the laptop’s internal motion detection system and use that as a trigger for it’s alarm. Fortunately, Of Zen and Computing readers are a sharp bunch. Benedict Reuschling called my error in the comments by pointing out iAlarmU. [...]

By: Of Zen and Computing

Of Zen and Computing — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:42:10 +0000

Thanks, Ben! I've posted your observation.

By: Benedict Reuschling

Benedict Reuschling — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:44:32 +0000

Mac Users can already use such a software that you are proposing. It even takes a picture of the thief when there is an iSight Camera built in. Check it out at: http://www.ialertu.com