I have a laptop computer that I use at my home office and a computer (regular style) that I use at the office office.  My home office is also my bed.

It is always a huge pain in the ass to transfer files back and forth going back and forth from work — and to get emails all sync’ed up.  I end up deleting or losing important spams.  Can’t someone make computers that work?

Somebody did!

My good friend Dan who runs the finest webhosting on the web showed me THIS SOFTWARE THING!  It’s called Synergy or possibly synergy2, I don’t know because that’s the url — and it lets you connect your computers through the LAN and drag your mouse from one screen to the next, bringing the keyboard along for the ride.

Let me explain it again.

You can take your mouse pointer and drag it right off the screen of your computer and it will magically go onto a completely different computer right next to you and let you do whatever you want over there.  Copy and Paste works too, so that’s pretty sweet.

That means you can just leave all your email and code and sites and shit on your laptop and just hijack your shit whilst at work.  Way to go synergy2 guys!  If only your program configuration page wasn’t completely retarded!

Secret Synergy tips:

Just because you say computer A is to the left of computer B, the program does not know computer B is to the right of computer A.  You have to specify.

Synergy calls a “client” the computer that allows it’s mouse and keyboard to be hijacked.  Little bit oppositey if you ask me.