[Applications] Synergy

Synergy is an awesome little utility that I came accross about a year ago. Simply it is a software based kvm.

Using a client/server architecture it allows you to use one keyboard and mouse to control multiple machines. You configure the server on one machine and tell it where the client machines exist ie Machine B is to the Right of Machine A, then configure your clients. Once it has been configured moving your mouse out of the right side of the screen on Machine A will take control of the mouse on Machine B at which point the keybord focus is for machine B. It gets better as it allows you to copy and paste text between machines!!

Even better yet is the fact that it uses TCP/IP as its comms protocol which has resulted in Windows, Mac OSX and Linux clients for it!