ORBICULE  Dear Mr. Miracle,

Orbicule is alive and kicking! We have replied to your email within minutes. Most likely, your spam filter has accidentally marked our message as junk mail. This is something we really can't do anything about it. Please try to contact us again with an alternate email address.

Best wishes,

Winnie

Orbicule  
(Version 2.5)

ORBICULE  Dear Mr. Miracle,

Orbicule is alive and kicking! We have replied to your email within minutes. Most likely, your spam filter has accidentally marked our message as junk mail. This is something we really can't do anything about it.

Best wishes,

Peter

Orbicule  
(Version 2.0)

ORBICULE  Hi,

I understand your point about the price, but I would like to explain a bit our side of the story:

- We are located in Europe and over the past years, the value of the USD has been reduced from more than 1.2 Euro to only 73 Eurocent. This means that for every USD we earn, we only get about half as much as just a couple of years ago.

- The new licenses we sell on our webstore are licenses for life. No more upgrade fees.

We would love to offer iMsafe for $20. In that case, we would pay $3 to Kagi, leaving us with $17. After conversion to Euro (incl. transaction fees), we would only have 12 Euros, which is ridiculously low, as the purchasing power of the Euro in Europe is very comparable to the purchasing power of the dollar in the US (you can easily see this by comparing Mac prices between the US and Europe: the prices in Euro are about the same as the prices in USD).

It's not my intention to start a discussion about pricing or about the USD versus the Euro. I just wanted to share our philosophy when setting the price.

We are probably not the cheapest product in the market, but we just think that iMsafe offers a reliable, elegant solution that is very Mac like and easy-to-use. We offer fast and reliable support and the license is valid for infinity, so all in all I think it's a pretty good deal. Especially when you look at the household license which covers 5 Macs for only $49.  
(Version 2.0)

ORBICULE  George, iMsafe will backup any file / folder you have permissions for, so it should be able to copy files and folders on your internal HD, as long as you are the owner.  
(Version 2.0)

ORBICULE  Excellent application, I'm relying on it for almost all my Subversion needs.  
(Version 0.9.11)

ORBICULE  Hi, I'm the iMsafe developer and I can assure you that the comments on this page are not posted by us, or by people I know personally.

Thanks for posting your comments!  
(Version 2.0b12)

ORBICULE  Thanks for your interest!

The authentication/restart is required simply because TheftSensor uses a launchdaemon to start itself. That way, a thief can't quit TheftSensor without knowing the admin password.  
(Version 0.1pb)

ORBICULE  That's still a possibility indeed but only with some models and only if the thief has a Mac OS X CD or DVD to reinstall the OS...   
(Version 1.5)

ORBICULE  Thanks for the link. The app is only for OS 9 though. I no longer have the classic environment so I can't test it. I guess it might work when you still have classic...more and more Macs won't be able to run it though (all intel macs, for example) and even the PPC macs no longer have classic installed by default.  
(Version 1.5)

ORBICULE  Hi TeeTee,

Thanks for your great comments!

I'm not familiar with the FWSucker app and I could not find this on MacUpdate. Could you send me a link?

Installing Little Snitch requires an admin pasword, however, something the thief does not have access to.  
(Version 1.5)

ORBICULE  That's right, it can be done. But it requires some hardware knowledge that we hope (and think) the thief won't have. And even if the thief manages to do it somehow, Undercover may have done its work already

Thanks for your response!

peter

Undercover developer  
(Version 1.0)

ORBICULE  Hi,

A thief can't format the HD if you install the Apple Firmware password. See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482 for more information.  
(Version 1.0)

ORBICULE  Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your comment. I would like to stress that Undercover only sends screenshots when you activate it (= when your mac has been stolen). You can only activate it by sending us the Undercover ID you get when installing Undercover. This ID is unique for every Mac and without this ID, we can't monitor it.

Peter

Undercover developer  
(Version 1.0)