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We have shared basic laptop theft tracking utilities earlier but multi-platform laptop tracking utility PREY is much more powerful and feature rich, the free software for Windows, Linux and Mac allows laptop owners to retrieve general status of the computer, list of running programs, active connections, detailed network/WiFi information, screenshot of desktop and even picture of thief (if a webcam is connected) by email if the laptop is determined stolen by periodic checking of an URL on internet.

Laptop owners needs to configure and activate PREY once and it will run in background periodically checking internet for pre-configured URL without getting noticed, if URL is found it will send e-mail with all tracking information attached.

All network adapters have an unique identifier assigned by the manufacturer known as Media Access Control address (MAC address), this MAC address is used to identify a particular device on a network and was intended as a globally unique identification numbering system to trace network activity and implement restrictions and security, MAC address are used by many ISP's worldover for binding network access to a particular modem, however this MAC number can be changed easily via readily available noob friendly MAC spoofing tools, here are few tricks and tools to spoof your MAC address on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac.

Changing the MAC address on Windows is very easy, all you have to do is to use free MAC spoofing utilities like "Technitium MAC Address Changer", "SMAC" or "EtherChange".

Microsoft has done a pretty decent job with upcoming Windows 7 user interface, but here is something more futuristic named Copenhagen User Experience concept by its developer, the GUI concept seems very practical and is definitely worth giving a consideration by developers.