Monday, June 28, 2010

Synergy plus

Ever thought of controlling multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse and with out using a KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch ?



Try out the free software synergy plus. The only demand put by synergy plus all the computers that you control has to be connected to an Ethernet. No matter the machines has Linux, Windows, Mac or even ipad, synergy does its job. Even you can do copy paste from one machine to another. BTW I stole this image from here

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Multiple Desktops in windows 7

I always wondered why Microsoft didn't care about multiple desktops feature in their No:1 Market share operating system. Linux had this feature from the Day 1 the KDE or GNOME was in place. From a developer point of view I suppose its a very simple feature. You have a desktop class, Just create multiple instances of it.
Anyways I used to use  Ubuntu Linux for all my work and Windows when I need excel or power point. Once I started using Windows 7, I'm kinda addicted to it. The Aero interface is uber cool and its really FAST !!!.. Needless to say, I have a Dual core with a 4gig RAM. I have been looking for 3rd party softwares for the Multiple Desktop feature in Windows 7. I tried many virtual desktop, NVIDIA Nview etc. I would say all of them are not stable and crashes at times or doesn't have the features that i need.  Then I came across the dexpot software for windows which provides multiple desktops feature.You can download the tool from here . Its much stable and its FREE !!. It has got all the bells a whistles you need. So go ahead and try it out and if it crashes let them know :D