CameraTrace allows you to register your camera with their system for $10.00. They give you a special tag with an individualized serial number that will help get your camera returned if you lose it. The tag provides a good person who finds your camera with a website to go to, and this website will help them find you, and communicate with you, so you can get your camera back.

They also watch popular image sites and are often able to extract the serial number from a photo and trace that to your camera. They also have experience in the process of recovering lost and stolen goods, so you don’t have to take as many risks to get it back.

Features:

• Image monitoring to help find photos taken with your missing camera.
• Lost and found tag to help someone who finds your camera get it back to you.
• Assistance is getting the lost or stolen camera back and saving you the risk.
• Copyright protection for the photos you upload.
• Similar tools: StolenCameraFinder, IFoundYourCamera, BlueRetriever and Anti Theft For Mobile.
• Also read related articles:
  Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell Phone 
  2 Easy Ways to Recover A Lost or Stolen Android Phone

Find CameraTrace @ www.cameratrace.com

The app also has a plus version which has more features like the ability to send SMS remotely, export logs to PDF and many more. The plus version is subscription based but I couldn’t find the price of the subscription on their site.

Features

• Track your lost Android phone.
• Remotely wipe data and lock the phone.
• Plus version with more features available.
• Similar tools: TekTrak, LazyDroid, Wifi Photo Transfer, Android Screencast, and Webkey.

Check out OVERVI3W @ market.android.com/details?id=com.UnfairWare.PC.com.UnfairWare (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

After you install the app and create a TekTrak account online you can use it in various ways. The online account lets you track your phone’s location, ring it remotely, lock/unlock the phone, wipe off the data, and more. TrekTrak allows you 2 free uses i.e. you can login and use all services twice for free. To get more uses you will either have to opt for their premium services or refer friends to start using the app.

Features:

• A user-friendly phone application.
• Lets you track your phone.
• Protects your phone data remotely.
• Lets you ring your phone and lock it remotely.
• Similar tools: LazyDroid, Wifi Photo Transfer, Android Screencast, and Webkey.

Check out TekTrak Mobile Security @ https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tektraklite (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

The service finds photos through the serial number of the camera used to shoot the pictures. Digital cameras now save EXIF information into the metadata of shot images. Serial Search uses this metadata to track down online images using the camera’s serial number. Such a search can not only find camera thieves, but also help ensure your copyrighted images are not being used on other websites.

Serial Search supports an impressive list of camera companies and models; a complete list is available on the service’s website.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you find images through camera serial numbers.
• Uses the metadata of online images.
• Supports a long list of cameras.
• Helps find camera thieves and resolve image copyright issues.
• Similar tools: IFoundYourCamera and StolenCameraFinder.

Check out GadgetTrak Serial Search @ www.gadgettrak.com/camerasearch (via GadgetTrack Blog) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Stolen Camera Finder is a free web service that searches for photos that have your stolen digital camera’s serial number stored in their metadata. If you know the camera’s serial number you can manually enter it into the site; otherwise you can drag a photo shot from the camera earlier into the site’s interface – the site then reads the serial number from the picture’s metadata. With the serial number obtained, the site crawls the web to look for any photos with your camera’s serial number in its metadata and then displays the links to you.

Stolen Camera Finder works for most digital cameras. For a complete list of supported models, refer to the tool’s website.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you find photos online with your camera’s serial number in the metadata.
• Helps find lost and stolen digital cameras.
• Lets you enter serial numbers manually.
• Can automatically detect camera’s serial number if you drag photo on site.
• Similar tools: IFoundYourCamera, BlueRetriever and Anti Theft For Mobile.
• Also read related articles:
  Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell Phone
  2 Easy Ways to Recover A Lost or Stolen Android Phone

Check out StolenCameraFinder @ www.stolencamerafinder.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

So this isn’t just a place to report lost pets. If you’ve found someone’s pet, you should create a profile and report him “found” on the site. Also, if your pet returns back home safely, make sure you mark him as safe on the site.

Features

• Search for lost pets.
• Select pet type, status, city, state and zip code.
• Mark as safe when he returns home.

Check out LostPetAtlas @ www.lostpetatlas.com (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

I Found Your Camera is a free and wonderful website on which people post pictures they find in lost cameras. The site serves this purpose in a very simple manner; if you find a lost camera that contained photos, you can email at least 4 of those photos to the site along with additional details, if any. The photos will then be published on the site.

New pictures are posted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays; if you recognize somebody in the pictures you can communicate with the site via email and help the camera owners regain their camera or at least their pictures. If you want others to help recognize the people in photographs, you can share the photos across a number of online social networks.

Features:

• A very user friendly website.
• Contains pictures that were found from lost cameras.
• Anyone can send in pictures from any part of the world.
• The site want visitors to identify people in the pictures so their camera and / or photos can be returned to them.
• Similar tools: BlueRetriever and Anti Theft For Mobile.
• Also read related articles: Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell Phone, 2 Easy Ways to Recover A Lost or Stolen Android Phone.

Check out “I Found Your Camera” @ http://www.ifoundyourcamera.net (by MOin from ThumbPress)

This extension logs your geo-location data to the FireFound server. After downloading the add-on, you can register and log-in to the Firefound website to find out where your lost/stolen laptop is. You can then send this information to the cops to help them get your laptop back. For your personal security, you can also tell Firefound to remove your passwords and browser history.

This add-on is also available for Fennec (mobile version of Firefox), allowing you to safeguard your mobile phone if it gets lost or stolen.

Features:

• Track down stolen computer.
• Sign-up and log-in to know where your computer is located all the time.
• Remove your personal browsing history and password remotely at your command.
• Option to receive e-mail notification if your computers is used far from its last location.
• Option to instantly clear personal browsing data if user fails to provide a password to user the browser.
• Similar tools: LocatePC, Lockdown, LAlarm and ihoundSoftware.

Get Firefound Firefox add-on from Mozilla here or Firefound.com

When someone finds your lost phone, he can go to the BlueRetriever site and enter the ID to find your contact information. He can also get a reward (according to what you’ve specified) of upto $100 in the form of Amazon, Target, or Starbucks gift cards or a donation to Kiva.

Features:

• Free web based cell phone loss protection.
• Reward the person who finds your phone with Amazon and Starbucks gift cards and more.
• Easy to use. Just put the generated wallpaper image on your phone.
• List of supported phones small but you can always crop and adjust the wallpaper image for your phone.

If you liked this service you might also check our article explaining How To Trace a Mobile Phone Location with Google Latitude.

Check out BlueRetriever @ www.blueretriever.com (via GeekSugar) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

As you can see in the screenshot above, it’s a 3 step process where you create a tag and then paste the label on the item and the 3rd item comes if you lose it and someone finds it and enters the tag at the website. Of course it cannot control the intentions of that person if he is not willing to return what he found out.

Go to SendMeHome @ www.sendmehome.com [via LifeHacker] ( (by) Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )