Synergy - 2 Screens but 1 Mouse+Keyboard

Ok so many of us have more than one computer. What's more is that often these computers are on the same desk and come with their own Keyboards, Mice and Screens as computers no doubt should. The combination is often a desktop computer fixed and the laptop that we use around the house.

Synergy is an open source project that allows you to use both computers with ONE set of mice and keyboards. The way it works is pretty simple, you designate one of the computers to be the server (meaning that it's mouse and keyboard become the ones you use) and the rest of the computers (can have up to 4 I think) to be clients. When you move your mouse to the left hand side of one screen it will reappear on the other screen and that computer will be allowed access to the mouse and keyboard.

It also does some more advanced things such as work across Linux and Windows, synchronise screensavers, lock screens simultaneously and some other stuff I'm sure that I have not discovered yet. All that is required of the user is to provide the machine name of the other computer across the network and the rest is done by running the Synergy service on both computers.