Protect Your Laptop From Theft With an Alarm

By Luke

Laptops are handy and easy to carry around, thus they are always eyed by the desperate low life thief looking for some easy pickings, and with Netbook sales soaring, it just got a notch easier. Leaving your laptop unattended even for a very brief moment can be a mistake worth a thousand dollars.

Thus, a program that acts based on a car alarm system can always provide peace of mind when you are outdoors, iAlertU is an application that protects your MacBook by triggering an alarm based on sudden movements detected by the built in motion sensor. It also provides the option of triggering an alarm and a visual notification based on mouse movement and keyboard usage, the built in webcam can be configured to snap a picture to hopefully capture the thief’s face in that moment of guilt.

Unfortunately there are no alternatives as sophisticated for Windows notebooks but thankfully Windows notebooks are cheaper in comparison because of their inferior looks to be frank.

There are a few alternatives that are not even half as badass as IalertU but worth an install. There is LaptopLock that comprises of a fairly different concept to IalertU. LaptopLock lets you configure certain options to be executed in case your laptop gets stolen, as long as the application is active, the preferences can be executed via the Internet.

Preferences include deleting or encrypting files, executing a program and displaying a message among other features. In short this program gives you the option on taking revenge on the thief (by executing a utility that allows only surfing by Internet Explorer perhaps) instead of protecting you from theft in the first place.

Another solution worth mentioning is Laptop Alarm, Laptop Alarm is a tiny shareware app that sounds an alarm when the power cable or mouse is removed or if the laptop is shutdown. IMO it is completely not worth the price of 8 Euros though for such a simple app.

If you have any other similar software recommendations, please do share them in the comments.

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James Moralde January 20, 2010 4:00 pm

I actually got a licensed software from Mathdelane of softwarecritics last December when his sponsors raffled off some giveaways. I think it was Laptop Alarm. I have not yet explored it as I’m kinda busy with something else at the moment. So, it’s 8 euros.
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