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December 18th, 2007 17:57 in Development, Technology by Jon
I’ve been doing some internal testing at work this week using Safari, and I’ve moved our Mac Mini onto my desk rather than using VNC. I’ve been using some awesome software called Synergy which lets you share your keyboard and mouse over the network. So I currently have my main work PC (running Windows) which has dual-monitors, next to a third monitor which is hooked up to the Mac Mini. With synergy I can move my mouse cursor between all three monitors and work on either machine without having to switch keyboards, or use a KVM.
Obviously I can’t drag/drop files or move windows between machines, but it’s made life a lot easier for performing Mac testing. It even supports cut/copy/paste from one machine to the other. Here’s a picture of my desktop setup at work (click to see the Flickr version that has notes)
Tags: apple, mac, os x, synergy, work
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2 Responses to “Synergy - The ultimate desktop sharing tool”
- Padd (21 Dec, 14:30)
is your desk really that tidy?
- Jon (22 Dec, 02:17)
Ha, hardly ever! What you can’t see is all of the crap that I’ve moved off my desk on to my colleagues desk while he’s on annual leave! You also can’t see the coffee stains on the desk either!