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To secure our valuable belongings is always important. It doesn’t really come to just price; what makes an object valuable to his owner varies from one person to another.

There’s a wide range of solutions to secure everything we have, and even though I’d like to think common sense and care are the most important ones, it’s really difficult to be alert all the time. If we can get a little bit of extra help, there’s no reason to turn our backs against it.

When it comes to my Macs, nothing is too much to secure them; as I stated before, the reasons for everyone are different.  In my case, I work with them, I paid a lot of money to get them (in Venezuela we don’t have prices as good as in the U.S. or even Europe), and, let’s admit it, I love them.

When it comes to the Apple desktops you have at home, security mostly means something like “don’t touch that!” But, laptops are a completely different story. Apple laptops aren’t just beautiful, they are also light-weight and easy to steal.

If you’d like to add a great partner to your common sense, you’ll have to check out this nice application called Lockdown. What Lockdown does, basically, is secure your Mac with an alarm-based system, just like the one present on most cars.

The main idea behind the process of activation and deactivation relies on the use of the Apple remote control, and the options provided are as plenteous as they are clever. For instance, you can configure the events that will trigger the alarm. Events like the Motion Sensor of the laptop, use of the Trackpad/Mouse, Keyboard, MagSafe Adapter, Lid Close and monitoring of External Devices. 

You can also configure the time the alarm will be activated (duration of the beeping), the motion sensitivity of the laptop, a nice splash screen activated when locked down, and some other features like the chance to activate the security system from a menu icon and set a password for it.

The last great feature in this app comes with the use of the iSight camera. Taking advantage of the embedded camera in most recent laptops, the application takes a snapshot of whoever activated the alarm. You can then, if you wish, allow your laptop to send you an e-mail with the picture it just got from the intruder. You simply specify a valid e-mail address, and Lockdown will do the rest through the e,mail client you have installed.

Lockdown comes from the already popular software iAlertU, and, with its improved user interface and great price (absolutely free), it’s a blinded recommendation from this mobile user who’s constantly trying to secure his laptop to the best of his possibilities.

Product [Lockdown]