I’m quite fond of a free program called Synergy, which allows you to share a keyboard and mouse between several computers. In case you’re wondering why someone would be operating more than one computer at a time: because it’s cool. Really, if you need to ask you’re so uncool it’s scary. You should probably go and iron something.<\/p>\n
Synergy is cool because you can even run different operating systems and still have just 1 mouse and keyboard to control them. Plus, it makes your office look like the bridge of the freakin’ Enterprise and if that doesn’t get you laid I will eat my laptop. Really, chicks dig multiple monitor setups. Just trust me on this.<\/p>\n
It’s free software and you can get it here:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n Unfortunately, it was written and maintained by the sort of geeks who think nothing of starting and configuring software via the command line, which is about as userfriendly as a good swift kick in the meat-and-two-veg department. The Windows package is ok, but for OSX (That’s Mac to you and me) configuration is a bit of a nightmare. What you need is a GUI: a Graphical User Interface. This basically adds a menu to the software, making it easier to work with.<\/p>\n There are 3 GUI’s available. 2 of them didn’t work for me. <\/p>\n 1. OSX Synergy GUI canbe found at: It does work, but you have to restart it manually each time you want to use it. Which more or less defeats the purpose of using Synergy, since you’ll still need a second mouse and keyboard to do that. Plus, it’s alpha-software.<\/p>\n 2. Synergy OSX, didn’t work at all for me although it looked very pretty.
\n https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/osxsynergygui\/ <\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/osxsynergygui\/<\/a><\/p>\n