One of my good friends has been telling me about synergy for a good while now but I never took a chance to try it out. After using it for only a few minutes I must say it is incredible. Synergy allows you to control multiple computers by setting up a server and clients; mouse and keyboard commands are sent to the server and then sent out to the appropriate client, allowing a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers, even with multiple operating systems. You can find a more detailed description of what synergy does here.

Setting up synergy is really easy. You can download the appropriate packages at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. Also, if you are on linux there is a good chance it can be found in your package manager. Synergy has very good documentation for installation, you can find those docs here. It took me about 10 minutes from downloading it to running it across Ubuntu and MAC OS X (Mac as the server).

I am sure a quicktip does not do synergy justice and I hope to later write up a full article with all the features it provides after I have more experience using it.