Thank you Stéphane for posting about QuickSynergy. I knew the software existed before I started using a Macbook laptop … but I never tried it. Since I started using my Macbook, I am messing with an alternate computer with Windows XP (in order to run Photoshop) both at Home and at the Office. So when I saw Stephane’s post I jumped on the link and installed QuickSynergy on OSX, configured it as the server. Then I installed Synergy on my Windows XP computer and configured it as the client. In less than 5 minutes I was up and running, controlling both my OSX laptop and my Windows XP computer with the same mouse and keyboard. It even allows me to cut and paste between computers. No hardware needed, running in 5 minutes. It uses the network to send the informations between computers.

Now that I liked it, I took some time to reconfigure my Linux desktop that I was not using anymore (I do not have time and I don’t like to switch keyboards, mouse, position to use them. I installed Kubuntu in less than 15 minutes, installed QuickSynergy on it and I am now using my Windows desktop, my OSX laptop and my Linux desktop at the same time with 3 different screens and the same mouse and keyboard. No switches to press, only as a display extension but for 3 different computers. I think I will not be able to live without it in some days.