Let the blog see the rabbit...

chckens recommended something called synergy to me today after I posted a photo of my desktop to Milliways. I hadn't come across it before, having previously used KMremoteControl. Both programs allow the sharing of a single mouse and keyboard between multiple machines.

I prefer synergy, not only because it's free, but because rather than having to press a key combination to switch machines all you have to do is push the mouse off the side of the desktop and it jumps to the next machine. It also features a common clipboard between machines, so it's akin to having a dualhead setup. What's even better is that it works in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.