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These weeks I had to bring my laptop to Spring, because I needed to sincronize a kind of animation I'm doing, and my laptop was more useful and had more tools that my computer at work.

One of the days I just forgot my Wacom, so I had to change the one I got at work all the time between the laptop and the desktop. But I get tired of it on the 5 change or so, that was when I just remembered something about one app Carl Gaywood talk me about. I thought he said it was an app only for mac, but I did a little bit of search in google with a query like "share the keyboard and mouse between two computers", and luckily the answer was on the 2nd result.

The answer is just Synergy. With that free application, you can share one mouse within 2 or 100 computers. You need to install it in all the computers, and run it in only one as a server. And you will say, why didn't you used VNC instead? Well, with that program, the only information you have to send is the mouse position, and it works quite easily, when you move the mouse to any of the limits of the screen, if you configured that the screen of the other computer is going to be next to it, well, then the mouse just appears on that screen. This works with multimonitors as well :D. So you could have like 5 computers with 2 screen booths and configure it so you share the same mouse with all the screens. It was like having 3 screens in the same computer.

Ovbiously you cannot copy and paste things from one computer to another like dragging a file, but would be cool if they support that in a version 3.

It's really a nice tool.