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I was stupid and left my mobile phone behind at a cafe yesterday. It actually fell out of my jacket pocket while I was sitting on a couch, but I should have checked before I left, so that still makes me stupid. I didn't realise until after I arrived home. It's actually my work mobile so I stressed a bit as it has a lot of numbers in it that I probably wouldn't want anyone else to get hold of. It also has my calender in it as well as heaps of contacts that I don't have written down anywhere else, so loosing it would have been a real pain.
Luckily I signed up for Whereis Everyone a few weeks ago so I was able to locate it on the web. This service is absolutely great and everyone with a Telstra phone (NextG or GSM) should sign up for it straight away. You simply go to http://everyone.whereis.com/ and register your phone (before you loose it!). You enter your mobile number and a password, the system sends you a text and then you reply to that text to prove it's your phone. You can now see the location of the phone on a Sensis Whereis map. It's great! It uses the mobile phone towers to estimate where the phone is. If you can only see one tower then it's a bit of a guess, but if you can see a few then it becomes quite accurate.
In my case I could see that the phone was still in the area of the cafe. Unfortunately it then started moving. I watched it head out of town and then South towards my place!
I straight away assumed it must have been picked up by someone who was dishonest enough to not hand it in. I won't go into the full story here, but I ended up collecting my phone from the cafe today. One of their staff took it home with them by mistake so it all ended well.
Oh yeah, you can also use the website to track your friends. You have to go through the same text invite thing, so you can only track those people that let you. I located one of our phones and took a screen shot so that you can see how cool it is.
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