Comments on: Laptop Alarm : Sound the Alarm to Prevent Your Computer from Being Stolen

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Top Articles of the week — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:24:52 +0000

[...] Sound the Alarm to Prevent Your Computer from Being Stolen - Steve talks about giving our computer more and better protection. [...]

By: ameo

ameo — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:53:52 +0000

network magic is mostly used in handling the LAN sharing and printers , but it has that feature to send you daily reports of your pc onlinetime

By: Steve Yu

Steve Yu — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:18:23 +0000

Rakshit > Let me try and see whether the alarm will be played just before my laptop goes shutdown after pressing the power button. Thanks for the info.

ameo > Is network magic similar to locate pc?

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[...] Daily Reads Do you have a laptop computer? Steve Yu recommends a software called Laptop Alarm to safeguard your laptop computer against theft. Prevention is better than [...]

By: ameo

ameo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:28:16 +0000

pretty handy .. good for me i don’t take my laptop unless I’m going to the beach [ I'm not swimmer so it doesn't get away from my sight ] other than that i have network magic installed on it and it every time the laptop is opened it sends me an email of the time , which user logged in and what IP

By: Rakshit

Rakshit — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:51:54 +0000

Nice application Steve. Not many of us know that.

Still this security can be broken easily. If you press power button for 5sec, your laptop will get shutdown immediately.

But this happens very rare. No thief usually does that. I suppose this application is very useful.