Synergy - control multiple PCs via single mouse & k/b

[PvtPyle]

Just thought I'd share this as it is an awesome little freeware application that I couldn't live without any more.

I built a dedicated Vista gaming PC in July/Aug last year and fortunately, I wasn;t quite ready to bin my older WinXP box. The problem is that I am currently still failing at life, and I live at home with Mum and Dad. I've not got a great deal of room, and with two widescreen monitors, things were getting cluttered running the two machines totally seperately. For a while I used RDP, but what I really wanted was to essentially share the k/b and mouse I had over ethernet.

Enter Synergy, a program that does just that!

Synergy Site

It takes 5 minutes to set up, simply configure one machine as host and the others as slave. Tell the host machine which side (right or left) of your monitor it should find the slaves, and Bob's your uncle. I run it as a startup app on XP so I don't need any peripherals at all plugged into the PC and I can keep it stashed out of the way.

Download it here

Ah, forgot to mention that it is happy with Windows NT, Mac OS, and various Linux distros, or mixtures of all of the above!