Funny how you forget how cool something is..

Posted by kyle on February 28th, 2012 filed in Misc

In this case – Mouse without Borders – a little utility I have been using for a while that enables you to use a keyboard and mouse across multiple machines and screens. You can have mouse that moves from one machine to another (even when you have multiple monitors, different Windows OS’s) and then have the keyboard just work on the other machine.

when I am doing demo’s (or even just when I am working from home) I have multiple laptops set up and it is handy to be able to use one central keyboard when going from machine to machine. It works over IP so I have had an odd incident at home where I had a laptop in the lounge room and the mouse and keyboard had gone off the screen – in fact onto the laptop that was in the office Smile

It also allows copy and paste and even drag and drop between the machines – very handy!

Anyway – go get it – from http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/09/09/microsoft-garage-download-mouse-without-borders.aspx

cheers

Kyle


2 Responses to “Funny how you forget how cool something is..”

  1. Hilton Travis Says:
    February 28th, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    Have they fixed this so it doesn’t need elevation to run? All the other mouse/keyboard sharing apps can run without needing elevation.

  2. kyle Says:
    March 2nd, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Hilton – they have not – it still does require elevation – it is a good point – I wonder if it is due to the drag/drop and shared clipboard?
    cheers
    Kyle

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