The other day, my colleague was breezing his mouse and keyboard between his PC and notebook. displays. I have seen people having the bulky KVM switch box that powers users to switch between multiple PC displays. Kind of a mission control center on ur desk.. hehehe. Suprisingly, this person didn't have any such hardware stuff beneath his desk. A peek into his cubicle and this amazingly simple software called Synergy takes my breath away! Alright. No more spinning the wheel. Synergy is a virtual KVM switch implemented in software. For those dudes hearing that word for the first time, wiki here. Synergy is a client-server solution(obviously) and its Open-Source dude.
First thing home, downloaded this software from their official site. Got it installed on my two notebooks running XP and Vista. Got one of the installation as server and other as client. And, here i go. Now, i could use the mouse and keyboard of the notebook running my Synergy server to access the desktop of the notebook. So, i was moving the mouse connected to my first notebook and just crossed over to the desktop of the adjacent notebook. And, i was typing in the keyboard of first notebook to see the letters appear on the MS Word running on the other notebook.
This link has an awesome description of installing and configuring Synergy. Happy crossovers across your displays.
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