Download of the Day: Synergy
Synergy is an open source, cross platform, solution for those geeks that have too may computers and monitors on their desk. Synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard across two or more computers, much like a KVM switch, but completely with software. You setup a server, or main computer, and your other computers are clients to that main machine. Synergy has great features like clipboard sharing, but unfortunately lacks the ability to cut and past files across machines.
I have Synergy setup between my main desktop and my laptop that sits beside my three monitors. There are other products that do the same thing, but I have found Synergy to be the easiest to use and does the best job.
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Synergy is cool but a nightmare to configure.
I prefer a tool called MaxiVista which does the same like Synergy but is very easy to setup and it has an interesting additional feature. It allows using the secondary PC screen as an additional monitor for the main computer.
Helge