Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware
Last month, I wrote about the Synergy+ project, which is an update to the original Synergy project. Synergy is a cross-platform tool that allows multiple computers to be controlled with a single keyboard and mouse. While Synergy+ has a lot going for it, one area where it is still lacking is configuration tools for non-Windows machines.
Luckily, there's a new Synergy configuration tool in town, and it's called QSynergy. The big selling point of QSynergy is ease of use. It offers a graphical interface for configuring the server machine on any of the three OSes that Synergy supports: Windows, Mac, and Linux.
QSynergy is not a complete Synergy distribution -- you still need to download Synergy itself from Sourceforge and install it, but once you've done that, you can do all the configuration tasks in QSynergy. As a Mac user this is a huge plus, since otherwise I'm stuck manually editing text-based configuration files. In contrast to previous attempts to use Synergy, I was up and running using my Mac as the server and my Windows PC as a client within about three minutes.
If you've ever wondered how to easily reduce the number of keyboards and mice you need to switch between in order to control multiple computers, particularly if your computers run different operating systems, Synergy with QSynergy is your ticket to a tidier desk.
[via Lifehacker]
QSynergy makes cross-platform Synergy configuration a snap originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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