Both of these were sent to me by EMUTalk.org regular Abby Coykendall (though I’m paraphrasing here).
First, lock your car doors and watch out for the carjacking. There was this story from the AANews, “15-year-old held in carjacking in Ypsilanti.” As the story explains though, the carjacking took place in the 800 block of North Huron, which I don’t think is that close to campus, and the carjacker was apprehended on EMU’s campus. Abby also said that there was a car stolen from the Ann Street lot last month.
Second, here’s a free option for laptop security: Adeona. Follow the link for the full explanation of the software, but besides the fact that the price of free is quite good, this is my favorite feature: “The Mac OS X version also has an option to capture pictures of the laptop user or thief using the built-in iSight camera and the freeware tool isightcapture.” So you can take a picture of the thief. That is almost cool enough for me to see if I can get a laptop stolen and then track the bad guy.
Almost.
Like I said, I haven’t tried this yet and it does look like it might be a half-step beyond the abilities of some basic users, but it looks very promising. Thanks for passing this along, Abby!
