Find your lost or stolen computer for FREE. 

Ever worry about your laptop getting stolen?  Worse yet can't remember if you left it at a client's home or at the coffee shop?  Did you know that some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute?

 Here is an easy and FREE way to make sure you know where your laptop is.

 Adeona is a FREE, open source, on line computer tracking service. 

The nice thing about Adenoa is that is does not rely on third party tracking.  This means that only the laptop owner (or a designated agent) can use Adenoa to track the laptops location.

This also means that no one can abuse the system to find out where you use your laptop (important if you have a boss who wants to determine exactly where you where when you emailed that proposal were you home sick or at the beach)?

Andenoa uses a community based - remote storage facility to store the laptop location updates. These location updates are sent to the storage facility by the software client, which you install.

 Here is how it works:

  • Download and Install Adenoa.
  • Adeoa sends location updates to a remote storage facility so when you laptop is stolen you know exactly where it is.
  • Locations are only retrievable by the laptop owner.
  • Snap a photo of the thief (Mac Version). The Mac OS X version will capture an image of your thief using the built in camera and a freeware tool called isightcapture.  Images are privacy protected and only the laptop owner can access them.

 Adeona can also be installed on desktop computers or servers. They do not currently support mobile devices but are working on it.  It works behind a firewall but needs Internet access or if used behind a corporate firewall needs access to port 80.

 For more details check out the Frequently Asked Questions or the documentation.

 

 
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10 Comments on It’s 10 PM do you know where your computer is? Find it with this FREE tool.

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10
2008
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interesting -- I will read up about this -- it's funny = I will take my computer with me when I leave the car because it is more valuable to me than the car -- I will never leave it in the car

12:08am • #1

Scott: Thaks for your comment. You are very smart.  I think everyone feels that way.  After all, it is our lively hood on that laptop.  My nephew who just started school at the University of AZ told me his new laptop came loaded with LoJack for Laptops.  I think he bought it from the University so it might be that is why.   Sounds like a good idea to me.  LoJack is not free.

 

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Caryn,
Well I'll be downloading this program for sure.  Losing my computer would be a disaster!  Thank you.

7:08am • #3
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Yet another great information blog from you. Brian carries his laptop everywhere. Thanks a bunch. ~Rita

3:30pm • #4
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2008

Hi Everyone:  Sorry for the delayed response.  I am just back from vacation.  Nice to get a break.

Cynthia:  I am with you it would be a big disaster.

Rita: Thanks as always for your comments.  Hope this helps.

Norma:  As always, my pleasure.

 

9:33pm • #6
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18
2008

Caryn

WOW, you are the queen of free.

Thank you for all the free stuff, I just subscribed to your blog.

I look forward to your posts on AR

8:44pm • #7
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2008
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Interesting post.  I'll check this out further.  Thanks for sharing this information.

9:20am • #8
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2008

Steve:  Yes I am!  I love free stuff and the best part is sharing it.

Jon:  It is a pretty cool tool.  Check it out.

1:21am • #9
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2008
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great tool, ill be putting it on my staff's computers

 

10:25pm • #10

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