Undercover, Part 2: “Help! Someone Stole My Mac!”
On Monday we “stole” a Mac to see what happens during a real world test of Undercover; the slick Mac application that tracks your Mac after it’s gone. There’s good news and bad news.
Review: Undercover sits on your Mac and quietly phones home until that day when your Mac gets pilfered, lifted, stolen, swiped, ripped off, goes MIA.
iBook, PowerBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, PowerMac; Undercover doesn’t care. It waits until something bad happens and then quietly takes steps to get your Mac back.
Early this week we set up a.... (excerpted).
2 Reader Comments
mike said:
I wish i had this on my mac! My dear good friend of two years came to my home, asked to borrow my computer for a day to get some of the songs he recorded on there, off. And that was the last I saw of both of them. He changed his phone, moved to a different house. I don’t even have the receipt available to me.. I just moved and i think all that was left back at my parents house! I’m going to file a police report against him, but can’t do that until I visit cleveland! Is there anything else i can do?
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