Prevent Laptop Theft

Reading through the Economic times (Indian financial Newspaper), got this interesting piece of information concerning laptops

http://www.lojackforlaptops.com

http://www.pcphonehome.com/

http://www.ztrace.com/

Using Anti-Theft Software's from the above websites, actually helps retrieve you laptop if they are stolen, success rate been more than 70% as one website said. The article went on to say that more than 7.5 million laptops were stolen last year in the United States alone. The software's costs between 20 to 50 dollars

All that said, I don't think people are like prone to losing their laptops like losing their pencils. If the same was true I guess those guys need to attend Responsibility and Safety seminars :). I guess, the software would come in handy for those people whose job profile requires them to spend most of their time traveling or for people living in dangerous locations where stealing laptops at gunpoint is a common sight.

But at the end, taking precautions and using common sense is all that is needed to prevent a laptop theft. (unless at gunpoint!! :) )

Free online storage sites

Did you ever feel the need to buy another hard drive or an external drive so that you could save your music files or anything you needed. Well.. if you never knew, there are free online storage sites available. Here are six of them

1. box.net
2. DropBoks
3. eSnips
4. MediaMax
5. OmniDrive
6. openomy

I wouldnt suggest storing personal information although all of them provide security features.

For a complete analysis of the various storage websites you could check up on this link

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2098943,00.asp

Note: Yah my source of information was from extremetech.com

U Shop We Ship

"U shop we ship", now what's that? (for those who don't know)....

Ever entered a US based online shopping site, checked out the item u wanted to buy and go forward with the purchase and then later at just the last part of the purchase, you get to know that the item would be shipped to US based residential address only!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't that just bad, Esp. if you can't get such an item on any other online store.

Welll then, now here's where "U shop we ship" herein referred as "USWS" comes in. The website http://www.ushopweship.com/ is based on providing services to those individuals with such issues. The website needs you to register, with a registration fee of 25 dollars of course and wala, you would get an email with details on the location of your US mailing address and your USWS code. Armed with the US address, you would be able to order anything online which would be shipped to your US mailing address (the address you would give and which is one of the many USWS collection locations) and USWS would forward the freight(purchased goods) to our address(in Kuwait or where ever). Now isn't that great. I should have proberly used this service to buy my dell laptop instead from a dell representative in Kuwait :)

Yah the charges for courier are like KD 2 per pound for transportation to Kuwait. So it's like you got to figure out the real cheap stuff or stuff you wouldn't get in Kuwait to buy.

Some good items worth the buy would be,

1. Books
2. External Hard Drives
3. Branded Clothes and accessories
4. Laptops
5. Gadgets
6. Corvette!! Yeah rite :)

Note:
1. There is a list of prohibited items which won't get through this service. You could find details for such in the website.
2. Another company providing identical service is Aramax, http://www.aramex.com/ (I have not checked it as yet plus heard it take's day's for the stuff to reach)

Did I just advertise a service or give my thought's? Advertise or thought's, hmm advertise or thought's? Let me know what you think.

Disclaimer:
I have not yet used services from USWS, but have read positive review's from individual's who have used their service's from Kuwait. I do hope to use USWS service's in the future, once I make by second buy list :).