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Monday, 19 March 2007
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Condescending Linux user

On PVP today, the cartoonist blogged about an application called teleport, which allows users to control two or more Macs seamlessly with one keyboard and mouse, without using a KVM switch. Just move your mouse past the edge of one screen and it jumps to the other one, and your keyboard controls whichever computer the mouse is on. Possibly more exciting is the fact that the clipboard is shared as well; you can copy text from one computer and paste it into the other, drag and drop files from one to the other, and so forth.

And as someone posted in the comments, there's a similar application on SourceForge, synergy, which does mostly the same thing — drag and drop isn't supported yet — but it's cross-platform amongst Mac, Windows and Linux. It took about five minutes to download, install and configure. I've been wanting the ability to cut-and-paste between two computers ever since I started running Windows and Linux side-by-side on my desktop.

Now I just have to get out of the habit of hitting <CTRL><CTRL><1> and <CTRL><CTRL><2> whenever I need to switch between machines.


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