When I was recently listening to the No Agenda Show (the best podcast in the universe), Adam Curry shared about how he shares his keyboard and mouse seamlessly between multiple computers. He uses an open source project called Synergy, and it’s absolutely brilliant!
After installing the free software on my primary Windows 7 machine, and a ten year old laptop running Xubuntu, I was able to move my mouse between computers as if they were one computer with multiple monitors.
The set-up took all of about 5-minutes and we were up and running. Like I said, brilliant!
Synergy supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. They have been developing the software since May 2001 and it is extremely refined and easy to use. So much better than using a KVM switch or two sets of keyboards and mice.
So if you are wanting to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on the same network I can’t recommend Synergy more highly…