My friend had a laptop stolen and actually got it back. I guess he had pcanywhere installed, logged on and saw the email address. Was able to track down the person the laptop was SOLD too. Sure enough the cops eventually went to the house once the report was filed and boom, they got it back.

Worked out like an episode of CSI.

Do you have another Mac? You can connect to your Macs from anywhere.

Edit: You can even take over the other Mac with screen share.

you gotta be a total waste of human life to be invited to a party and then steal something from them:mad:

if you know the mac adress of your network interface card you can find the ip address. google for that. if you know aproximately where the macbook could be you can find it by tracing the it with an oscilloscope. This way you can find the mac adress if you´re in the range of the respective wifi signal.

BUT:

1. i guess you don´t know how an oscilloscope works.

2. an oscilloscope costs at least about 3000$ (much more than your macbook), and most likely you don´t already have one.

3. even if point 1 and 2 do not apply, your chances of being successfull this way are very very low. so just as it´s been said, if it doesn´t have a gps function implemented you can consider it lost.

don´t get me wrong anyway i´m very sorry for that man, and i really hope you get the soab, and if you get to kick the blacking outta his friggn´ head, give him one kick in his fuckn´ kisser from me too.

If any of your apple software logs into apples site, such as itunes store, you can get the info I'm sure by contacting apple.

Hit me up on AIM I might be able to help.

Reminds me of this clip...

ouh, i would like to see the faces of the audience :1orglaugh

it was no big deal.. i only got detention....

How were you able to find out where they were using it?

Edit until I seen the question above me :)Hope you get it back..

OK, hitting you up in a second.

Since it is a MacBook Air it has "Back to my Mac" on it. If the laptop is used to go online you can login into your mac and turn the cam on and see who is using your Mac. Their was a thief caught not to long ago using this.

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003402,00.html

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sucks man... sorry :(

Duke

That’s why I never throw parties at my house any more unless its my kids b-day party. Lat time I had my hockey team over there was a cigarette burn on my leather couch, someone pissed all over the bathroom mats and my 300 dollar sunglasses that my wife gave me disappeared… No fucking way… Chucky-e-Cheese is where my next party is going to be at.
Sorry Jay.. must have been hell of a party

cool. nail the bastard.

Thievery is not something that should be tolerated but by other thieves.

:2 cents:

did you get your baby back?

whats the update on tghis Jay?

I doubt they'll be able to track it down.

now, that really sucks!

www.x10.com, cover the house in 'em. Not only will it solve these kinds of issues quickly, considering the kinds of parties you have, it could have fringe benefits too. ;-)

Right here is the apartment complex they've been using it from:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...kvhbl0adKGuulg

Anyone know how to narrow it down to a specific unit?

I had someone take my wife's cellphone, do a couple of text messages, and then dump it in the trash.

That was the last party I gave at my house.

they might be using wireless to surf via a neighbors unsecured wi if..

if you are really torn up about this, hire a detective.. have him stake the apt out..

i bet he find the person easily if they left the apt with it...

It was a friend of mine who is a detective gave me the 411 on this.

How do you know it's in that apartment complex? As others have said, if you get some simple wireless network sniffing software, such as Wildpackets OmniPeek Personal (there's an older fully-featured freeware version knocking about on the web somewhere, I think I've got a copy if you need it) and you somehow know the MAC address of your MacBook's wireless adapter, you could just walk around the complex and see if you can sniff the presence of the Mac, and then do some door-to-door enquiries.

To be honest though, for those of you who said you've registered your MAC address with Toshiba and so on, I really can't see how Toshiba would be able to track it down, as MAC addresses are all local to specific network segments - whenever a router routes traffic to the WAN, it does so using your IP address as the source but it's MAC address as the source, so I'm at a loss to explain how somebody could track a MAC address down. That said, I'm usually 110% wrong about most things I "know", so here's waiting for the correction...

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