Information Addicts

What would you do if you lost your portable device?
We seem to carry around with us more and more portable devices these days, for instance Laptops, flash drives, USB drives, phones, portable hard drives etc and never even consider losing them, but what if you did lose your flash drive with all your files and folders on it and you forgot to back them up? Even if someone else actually found it and was honest they wouldn’t know who to send it back to.
I have a couple of ideas that might help:
For your laptop you could either purchase a roll of white sticky business card sized labels, and write “if found” and then your name, address and telephone number on one or just a contact number and stick it to the bottom of your laptop. You could even cover it with clear tape to make it a little more hard-wearing. Or you could write your details on a business sized card or better still if you have a business card then all you have to do is tape it to the bottom of the laptop. Make sure you use clear heavy duty tape (like packing tape) so it can handle the daily use. I know this all sounds a bit simple but it does work and you never know you might just get your laptop back if you did lose it. You could also do this with your portable hard drive if its big enough.
USB drives, flash drives and portable hard drives, for these little devices you could create a text file and name it “If found, please return to me.txt” which would then contain your contact details.
Mobile phones, you could make an entry in your contacts and name it “Return to” which would contain your contact details. I have a pocket pc/phone and when switched on before you enter the password I have “Reward if found, please contact Jeff Sanderson and my home number.
Try my suggestions and let me know what you think. Do you have a better idea then share it with us?

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