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Synergy–Sharing Keyboard and Mouse

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 30, 2008

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Not to be confuse with the latest boardroom buzz word, synergy
is a nice little application that allows the sharing of keyboard
and mouse services between up to 4 physical boxes. Synergy lets you
use one keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. To do so it
requires that all the computers are connected to each other via
TCP/IP networking. Nicer still is that it allow copy and paste
features across the machines in your keyboard cluster. It runs
cross platform, so it is available for Windows as well as Linux and
integrates nicely…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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