| laptop lo-jack? im going to be travelling to france for 4 months, and someone suggested i get laptop lo-jack they said if my laptop got lost or stolen i could go on a website and it would tell me exaclty where it was what i dont know is if this is something i download or something i plug in or what...do you have any idea? anyone know a website about this? Laptops & Notebooks - 2 Answers People's Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions : Answer 1 : Lo Jack is a software that you install. If your laptop gets stolen...you tell the police about it and that you tell that you have lo jack or you can tell the lo jack company. when the thef turns it on...your laptop will send a signal. lo jack finds out where that signal is coming from. they tell the police...and you get your laptop back. Answer 2 : Wikipedia has a list of software you can put onto your laptop that will help track it if is stolen. However, none of these are fool-proof because most of them require the laptop to be turned on and connected to the internet after it has been stolen. Additionally, none of these can truly pin-point the location of the laptop... the best they can do is give you a general idea of where it might be based on where it connected to the internet. Most of these services (if not all of them) costs money. To pinpoint the exact location of the laptop, you would need a gps device. There are several companies that do offer GPS tracking, but I know of none that offer it specifically for laptops. One though, is Zoombak which doesn't connect directly to your laptop, but you could put it in your laptop bag or backpack to be able to track the bag by going to a website and seeing exactly where it is. Zoombak costs money, but less that buying a new laptop. But you should also think, if you are in France and your laptop IS stolen, you can either try to convince French police to help you get it back, or you can try and track down the thief yourself. I don't know much about France as I've never been there, but I'm not sure retrieving a laptop back from the thief is feasible. Instead of trying to track a stolen laptop, I suggest taking measures not to get the laptop stolen. There are several companies out there who produce laptop proximity alarms. The basic idea is that you have an alarm on your laptop and a device on your keychain. If the laptop alarm gets too far away from your keychain, alarms go off. If you are always with your laptop... no problem. If someone takes off with your laptop or you leave it behind somewhere, the alarms go off so you can take immediate action. |
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