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Your Mac will finally get the same tracking treatment offered to the iPhone and iPad with Find My iPhone when Mac OS X Lion hits the wild. Find My Mac has been activated in the latest developer preview of the OS with setup available through the Mail, Contacts and Calendars setting in System Preferences. You’ll just need to click “allow” and your Mac will be set for tracking.

Just like Find My iPhone, Find My Mac will let you hunt down your computer using any web browser or iOs device. You’ll also get the same range of options with the ability to play a sound , send a message, remote lock the machine or wipe it entirely. Find My Mac will work as part of iCloud. Expect to see a rash of stories about thieves hunted down by amateur PIs using Find My Mac tracking as soon as Mac OS X Lion lands.

Out July | £20.99 | Apple

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Up until now Find My iPhone was fine and dandy until someone grabbed your phone and switched it off. At that moment, your iPhone would drop right off the Google Map and go dark, leaving you staring at a useless screen.

Luckily, Apple has now updated the Find My iPhone app to add a new feature that should make your chances of recovering your phone marginally better than mine were back in November when I penned the sad tale of my stolen iPhone 4. Read on for details of the update…

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Apple MobileMe is quite the neglected child. Sure Apple perked up the email and calendar interfaces recently but since Find My iPhone went free, subscribers have been wondering what the annual subscription actually buys them. One MobileMe customer sent Steve Jobs an email and in typical Jobbsian fashion, a succinct reply swiftly followed. Read on to see what Steve Jobs has to say about Apple MobileMe 2011. Warning: it is brief…

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Apple unleashed iOS 4.2 for download just a few moments ago (we’re still waiting for the update to hit, but Apple says it’s coming imminently), but a software update wasn’t all Cupertino had in store: MobileMe’s Find my iPhone feature is now free for all iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners.

Sure, it’s not quite free MobileMe, but we’d wager it’s the bit of MobileMe you wanted most anyway, isn’t it?

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Yesterday my iPhone 4 was stolen. It was two weeks old. The poor baby was snagged from Starbucks by map-wielding hoodlums in a classic distraction trick. As I used it to record an interview, they swooped in with tube maps, seeming to ask for directions. One distracted us, the other swiped my iPhone 4. In a minute, it was gone. But with MobileMe and its handy Find My iPhone feature, surely I’d be able to track it and the thieves down. Well, yes and no…

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Apple’s Find My iPhone service, which locates your lost/stolen iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, has been available through MobileMe’s web interface for some time – but you can now grab it as a native app for your iOS device.

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