Prey

An open source application to help find your computer if it's robbed.

Laptop computers are a common objective of criminals that like to dishonestly acquire other peoples technological devices. It our laptop is robbed it will probably be extremely difficult to find it anew. Now you have a solution to this problem thanks to the fact that Tomas Pollak has developed an application, called Prey, that is totally free and open source with which to find our computer, even if it has been robbed or we have lost it.

  The program works in the following manner: After being installed, we will have to define a URL address and an electronic mail address, in such a way that if it is robbed, as soon as the computer connects to Internet, Prey will send a report with the IP address, a screenshot and even a Webcam photograph to the email address that we have specified. Thus we will be able to detect who is responsible for our computer's disappearance.

  Thanks to Prey it may be possible for someone who's laptop is stolen to be able to recover it.