Synergy is eff'in the best program ever if you have multiple computers in one area like me! 

So to the right is a picture of my desk in St. Louis.  In it you can see a ton of computing power (3 laptops, 1 desktop and a Windows Home Server) but only one keyboard and mouse.  I love my Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro and Logitech MX wireless mouse and would plug them into my work laptop when I needed to work remotely.  I would randomly run into the problem of someone would IM me or I'd have to gain access to my desktop which would cause great pain to unplug ....  This couldn't continue for much longer.

I remembered way back, my old coworker, Ian Hall, was running Synergy at work and was showing it off.

To get it up and working was fairly painless, however one thing that took me a bit to figure out what I had to tell the software about both sides of the barrier.  I also had to expressly say "clintDesktop" and "crutkas-t60p" to get them to talk to one another.  The rest is straight forward. 

One computer is a server, rest are the clients.  No delay in mouse movements or typing too.  Plus it brings over the clipboard from one computer to another.  The image above was copied from my desktop but I'm writing this on my laptop.  Sweet.