Comments on: MacBook Theft Tracking & Recovery Software – Hidden

By: steve

steve — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:34:17 +0000

I use prey, was burgled last monday, tracked macbook on tues morn, police raided suspect couple of hours later and had my stuff back that evening – crim in custody and in court 15/6

By: Denise Johnson

Denise Johnson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:13:32 +0000

how did your computer go online… how did you track it \…. is there any way that you can track your stolen app without this program as i never thought my mac would get stolen obviously

By: Lyn Levett

Lyn Levett — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:07:52 +0000

I had my computer stolen a few months ago. My computer came back on line Saturday. I gathered plenty of evidence. The police said they couldn’t do much as I am in London and the computer is in Manchester. I am angry.

By: pinboard June 1, 2011 — arghh.net

pinboard June 1, 2011 — arghh.net — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:42:51 +0000

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By: pkclSoft

pkclSoft — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:55:29 +0000

Another free option, though slightly different is the open-source app iAlertU (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ialertu/).

There is also an iPhone app that allows you to connect to your Mac remotely and get images from the webcam (http://www.pkclsoft.com/pkclsoft/ualertme.html) which isn’t free, but is close enough to being so.

By: stephenrs

stephenrs — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:20:14 +0000

Prey is awesome…and very free. Really not sure why anyone would pay for the same service, especially after the broken promise. Also, keep in mind that it’s not only that the Hidden folks broke their promise, but the fact that they were forced to highlights what sounds like an infrastructure problem. This adds up to…not quite as trustworthy as you’d expect from someone who’s supposed to help you protect your computer.

By: Iggy

Iggy — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:39:23 +0000

You could put a firmware password so that no one could access the HD and thus reformat the HD.

Check it out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352

By: Frustrated Almost Customer

Frustrated Almost Customer — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:52:57 +0000

I postponed, since I was so busy before xmas. Now I will give them a miss for not keeping promises. No more trust.

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 02:34:08 +0000

Does it work if the laptop being reformat or the hdd being replaced?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:57:43 +0000

ITS NO LONGER FREE, Whats going on I thought till January Free

By: kinGdom

kinGdom — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:57:53 +0000

WIN!!!!!!

By: kinGdom

kinGdom — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:57:17 +0000

WIN!!!!!

By: kinGdom

kinGdom — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:56:17 +0000

good point, indeed. It would be sweet if the app had a setting that denies formatting hd. That would be worth alot more than $20

By: NM

NM — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:38:55 +0000

all good and dandy until the person reformats the harddrive!

By: acslater

acslater — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:23:26 +0000

That’s a crappy deal… I was able to register it this morning in the nick of time. thanks OSXdaily, wouldn’t have found this with out you.

I would say it’s definitely worth the measly 20 bones tho. compared to the the 1000+ that you spent on you mac.

sucks that they had to pull it down but I totally understand where they are coming form . Also to be fair, everyone had 3 weeks to get the free offer.