Teleport For Mac

// August 8th, 2008 // Technology Bits

For 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 Dell laptop with a new MacBook Pro. This opened up a new option for keyboard and mouse sharing in my environment.

I have recently learned that Teleport is a far superior product for a purely mac environment. Here are a few of my favorite features:

  • The setup has a great GUI that makes setup trivial.
  • You can establish a certificate on each host and have all the traffic nicely encrypted between them.
  • There is an option that requires you to hold a key whenever switching screens, handy if rarely used.
  • There are great indicators to what computer your keyboard and mouse are currently operating.
  • You can drag and drop files between machines.
  • Of course it also has the same kick ass shared clipboard that Synergy had.

There are probably a ton of other options that are useful, but these are my favorites. Synergy was great, but in a purely Mac based environment, I don’t see how teleport can be beat.

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