So you’re in a swanky coffeeshop in a trendy neighborhood with a friendly vibe. You only got up to refill your water glass… and your laptop is gone. Vanished. No one looked up from their own laptop or phone to see who walked off with it. It gets farther away by the second: It could be on the other side of the planet in hours. If you were signed up with LockItTight’s free online service, you’d be able to log on to LockItTight’s site, access your account, and see where your PC is now. Not only that, but you might have caught the thief in the act! LockItTight also records screenshots, Webcam images, keystrokes, and clipboard data. If anyone monkeys with your PC while you’re away from it, it can show you when they used your computer, what they did, their keystrokes, and, if your Webcam is active, their identity.

You’ll need to visit LockItTight’s Web site and sign up for a free account to install the client software on your PC. It’s easy to do, but you’ll have to provide personal information like name and time zone. Once you’ve logged in, LockItTight finishes the installation process and opens a Web-based console. We logged in to our online account and opened our Devices page. This is an ad-supported Web page that listed our PC as our first device. Clicking Show on Map opened a Google Maps page showing the location of our PC. It must have been our ISP’s server because it was our town but not in the hood, so to speak. But that was with a cable modem hookup, not WiFi; mobile users should get better results. You can add a variety of mobile devices for LockItTight to track, too.

Clicking our device’s name in LockItTight’s console opened a new page with a series of buttons accessing LockItTight’s security logs: Location(s), Screens, Camera, Files, Keys, Clipboard, and Browser History. One thing: Neither the Web page nor the data LockItTight’s freeware version captures are encrypted. To encrypt captures, you must upgrade to the paid version, which also removes the ads.

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As a parent, you’re responsible for what your children see and do online, and parental control suites like JuniorWatch can help out. This free application monitors, logs, and reports all activity on your family PC or your child’s PC. JuniorWatch captures screenshots and Webcam shots, logs keystrokes, monitors the clipboard, saves browser history, and blocks inappropriate Web sites. You can also delete and retrieve files remotely with JuniorWatch. In addition to overall upgrades, new features include anti-phishing and porn blocker tools.

Before you install JuniorWatch, we recommend first signing up for a free account at the program’s Web site. This entails creating a user name and password and providing some personal information, including name, e-mail address, and time zone. You’ll need your user name and password to install JuniorWatch. Registered devices like our PC show up in JuniorWatch’s Web-based My Devices management tool. It’s ad-supported, but that’s how JuniorWatch stays free, and a few Web ads are probably not high on the typical parent’s list of Major Annoyances.

The Web-based log showed our target PC’s name, operating system, and the time of the latest report. But under Location it showed the address of our ISP’s servers. We could display the location on a Google map. The Web-based settings let you manage your Accounts and Devices anywhere you can log on. Speaking of Devices, JuniorWatch also offers an Android option. We didn’t test it, but that’s the sort of extra that can make a big difference to some parents, especially those who are still ahead of their own kids in tech ability (for now).

While JuniorWatch is free for all users, it’s also available in Professional and Enterprise editions for users with special needs, such as hosting the program on their own servers. JuniorWatch proved effective at monitoring and logging our target PC’s activity. For parents, that means being able to see exactly what the kids are up to when they go online.

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