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Step 6One More Thing: Synergy, for Unifying your Desk
Synergy is a cross-platform application for using one keyboard and one mouse for many computers. It can be downloaded for free from SourceForge.
The synergy team put up a great guide on setting up their software, so I'll just direct you over there instead of putting the instructions all in here. It requires a wee bit of command line usage, but even a novice command line user shouldn't have much trouble, as it is a very simple program.
I have my Mac set up as a "host" computer, so if I want to, I just connect to it with the Eee and use my Mac's keyboard and mouse for both computers as if I were running multiple monitors. It even transfers the clipboard across the computers so you can copy from one and paste to the other.
A tip for Mac OS X Leopard users: For some reason, you can't run the synergy server the background on Leopard, you can only run it in the foreground, causing it to show its log in a terminal window and quit as soon as you quit Terminal. But you can get around this: if, when you start synergy, you use the command:
synergys -f &
which stills shows the log as if it were running in the foreground, but you can quit Terminal without stopping Synergy, which is nice to get it out of the way.
Alrighty then! I hope this instructable has made your life just a little more efficient and saved you some headaches about missing or inaccessible files. Dropbox is a fantastic tool and allows you to keep track of your important work no matter where you are. Have fun!
The synergy team put up a great guide on setting up their software, so I'll just direct you over there instead of putting the instructions all in here. It requires a wee bit of command line usage, but even a novice command line user shouldn't have much trouble, as it is a very simple program.
I have my Mac set up as a "host" computer, so if I want to, I just connect to it with the Eee and use my Mac's keyboard and mouse for both computers as if I were running multiple monitors. It even transfers the clipboard across the computers so you can copy from one and paste to the other.
A tip for Mac OS X Leopard users: For some reason, you can't run the synergy server the background on Leopard, you can only run it in the foreground, causing it to show its log in a terminal window and quit as soon as you quit Terminal. But you can get around this: if, when you start synergy, you use the command:
synergys -f &
which stills shows the log as if it were running in the foreground, but you can quit Terminal without stopping Synergy, which is nice to get it out of the way.
Alrighty then! I hope this instructable has made your life just a little more efficient and saved you some headaches about missing or inaccessible files. Dropbox is a fantastic tool and allows you to keep track of your important work no matter where you are. Have fun!
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