Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod

After my nephew and my brother both had their ipod's stolen. Which, yes I admit was careless on their parts, as I told my 10 year old nephew, owning a high priced item such as an Ipod, PSP or any of these other expensive gadgets that kids are always asking for, requires a certain level of responsibility on the owners part. You have to take precautions, such as not leaving it in the car, or laying around in a house where many people are coming and going, such as during a party or at someone else's home. However, some of you people act as if, people who have their ipod stolen, were just asking for it and deserve to have it stolen for their irresponsibility. Thieves are everywhere, just waiting for the opportunity to snag your favorite gadgets, I don't think that is the fault of every gadget owner.. It's just that kind of world where some jerks are always on the make, and you never know who they are, they might be a friend or a friend of a friend who thinks that since you have such expensive toys, you can afford to replace them. Since I had to replace my nephews ipod, I can attest that he did not have the money for a new one, neither did I but what can I say, I'm a sucker for a crying kid. Anyway, after this happened, I researched online and found a couple of options to protect Ipod and Iphone users from having their items stolen or to possible recover them if they are. The new Iphones and the Ipod touches are eligible for a free app called Gadget Track, it's approved by apple and available on the apple app's site or at http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/iphone/ It is a high tech tracking program which uses the gps in your phone or ipod touch to not only show you where your ipod is but may use the theif's own computer to track him down and even take a picture of him from his computer if a webcam is available. Cool, huh? There are also options, less inventive and high tech but useful nonetheless for regular ipod owners, Gadget Track also offers software that will track your device once it's plugged into an USB port and this works for any USB device that you need to track. You can then provide this info to the police to recover your item, or get your baseball bat and go take care of it the old fashioned way.. Also, you can order stickers from the company that you put on your gadgets to notify all who may be thinking of stealing them that the item is trackable, which may be the best preventive measure of all. Unless of course the theif just plans to sell the item to someone else right away, in which case you may be tracking a completely innocent individual who just unknowingly bought a stolen ipod.
— January 9, 2009 9:20 a.m.