Now if this

isn’t cool, I don’t know what is.

As we all know, the iPhone is mega-cool because it runs Unix. Anything that runs unix is paradise on this planet, I’ll have you know. But I digress.

Anywhos, what would you do if your iPhone gets lost or stolen and needs to call home? TAUW responds! To wit:

…Way back, one of our readers begged for an iPhone LoJack solution. He wanted his iPhone to “call home” regularly in case of loss or, let’s be more realistic, theft. Over the past week, I finally had a chance to give this request some time, and I put together findme. It’s a command-line program that returns the location of the cell phone tower nearest to your iPhone. When run, it tells you the tower id, plus its latitude and longitude courtesy of Google Maps.

Still, how to get the location report to a place you can get it… but nobody else can… and without receiving a zillion SMSes? For this part of the puzzle, enter Twitter. Twitter dev Britt Selvitelle helped walk me through the setup for a private account that allows your iPhone to phone home but keeps the location data relatively secure…..MORE…

Love it!

And if you’d like other resources to help keep your spouse’s iPhone safe, consider:

• iPhone: Locating the serial number and IMEI number
• Stop iPod/iPhone theft
• Preventing unauthorized iPhone users
• Apple patent reveals interesting possibility of a theft-proof iPhone

Hope you find the above useful.

Owlbert

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