Shared Clipboard and More With Synergy
June 28, 2006
OK, everyone is blogging about Synergy. Frankly Synergy is one of the coolest software utilities I’ve ever used.
Ever felt the desire to share a clipboard between two computers? On different operating systems? With the same keyboard and mouse? as simply as having multiple monitors on your desk? If you wanted any sub section of those things than Synergy is for you.
In about 15 minutes I managed to setup my Mac running OS X, my Windows XP laptop, and my Windows XP desktop to use Synergy. Suddenly my single keyboard and mouse could simply and seamlessly navigate between all three systems doing happy copy and paste across them. Words can’t express how freeing this setup can be.
The best part… Synergy is free, open source software and requires absolutely no additional hardware or gadgets to get running. It’s easy, you can go do it right now. If you are running multiple machines I highly recommend it.
Tags: keyboard, kvm, mac, macintosh, mouse, pc, shared clipboard, shared keyboard, shared mouse, synergy, virtual kvm, windows
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[...] And…if what you really want to do is use and control a couple (or more) computers side by side, then what you might really want is some virtual KVM software (or, more properly, some keyboard and mouse-sharing software). Zach is super excited about Synergy for these things. [...]
[...] And…if what you really want to do is use and control a couple (or more) computers side by side, then what you might really want is some virtual KVM software (or, more properly, some keyboard and mouse-sharing software). Zach is super excited about Synergy for these things. [...]
[...] And…if what you really want to do is use and control a couple (or more) computers side by side, then what you might really want is some virtual KVM software (or, more properly, some keyboard and mouse-sharing software). Zach is super excited about Synergy for these things. [...]
For Windows, check out http://www.maxivista.com
It does a very cool special trick additionally to the Synergy feature. Demo video: http://www.maxivista.com/demo.htm
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Synergy is the best of it’s kind. Simple, Fluid and light on the system.
Another (WINDOWS ONLY) alternative is Maxivista.
Maxivista is much heavier on your resources, but not only gives you all the features of Synergy (WINDOWS ONLY), but you can use up to three other machines as second monitors for the main machine. So 3 single monitor machines become 2 single monitor machines, and 1 three-screen beast!!! All controled with the same KB & Mouse. It also has a price tag. Where as Synergy is FREE!!!
I started with Maxivista, but now I use Synergy. I find it is very fluid and extremely versatile. It’s perhapse not the most straight forward (although not TOO difficult) program to set up, but once running, needs no tweaking and just sits quietly in the sys tray.
Best open source app yet..? Quite possibly!!!
The fact that the machine sharing the keyboard and mouse is classed the server is the bit that confused me. It was just confusion over terminology (Maxivista is other way around!). If any noobs need help setting up, feel free to message me via my myspace on the link above and I help you out. Good Freeware Frickin’ Rawks!
I;m glad Spam Banjo shares my sentiments, Synergy rocks.
[...] a log time I have been a reasonably happy Synergy user. However, I have also been working in a mixed Windows/OSX environment. Recently I replaced my [...]