Stopping crime, the Mac way
By now you all know I’m an Apple guy, some might say fanboy, but this story just goes to show you that Apple is so awesome that it’s actually stopping crime now.
First reported on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and later in the NY Times, an Apple Store employee had her apartment robbed by a couple of her so called ‘friends’ at a party she hosted, of course at the time she didn’t actually know it was her friends that had done her place over. Anyway, another friend of hers noticed that she was online, well it was actually her stolen Mac, and told her about it. She quickly used another Mac to connect to it using Apple’s Back To My Mac screen sharing software where she was able to use the Photo Booth application, and the in-built iSight Camera, to snap a photo of the thieves which she of course took to her local police and voila’ her asshat friends were caught.
Seriously with friends like this who needs enemies.
Kind of reminds me of when I turned 21. I had a party at my house the night before and a few ‘friends’ had crashed on the lounge. The following morning, which was my actual birthday, I got up early and went for a surf only to come home to a very empty CD rack, a very empty Video rack, and a whole bunch of other stuff missing. I reported it to the police, and fortunately they notified all the local porn / pawn shops. The following day all my stuff started turning up for sale.
Yep, you guessed it. A ‘friend’ had stolen. On my 21st. Yay for friends like that.
Fortunately I got most of my stuff back, his mother compensated me financially for the rest, and he ended up going to juvenile jail for 6 months.
Moral of the story, Mac’s are awesome and don’t steal stuff!
Essential Application for Bloggers
Darren over at Problogger posted a great blog today called ‘14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers‘.
Normally I’m pretty savvy with Mac Apps and usually know what’s good, bad, and all that but there’s a few apps that Darren mentions that I had never heard of so I decided a bit of further investigation was necessary.
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