Synergy: Share a Mouse, Keyboard, and cut-n-paste between computers

If you have multiple PCs or Macs next to each other, Synergy is a must have utility for you. This cool utility let’s you use one keyboard and mouse on all your computers on a single desktop. It works much like having multiple monitors on a single PC. You can move

the mouse from one to another, cut and paste from one to another, and use the same keybo

ard for both. You can do this even if one is a Windows PC and the other is a Mac.

Synergy has become very useful for me as I have a Macbook Pro and a Windows laptop laptops next to each other on my desk at home. I don’t have space for multiple mice and often wanted to cut and paste between them. Synergy solves those problems. I am using the keyboard and mouse on my Macbook Pro to control both the Mac and Windows laptops. This is not like a KVM switch. It just works seamlessly.

Synergy has one downside. Configuration is difficult. The best description I read is from an article from LifeHacker, Hack Attack:Control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse.

Update (8/10/2009):  I discovered Input Director on Lifehacker.  It looks more up to date and has more features.