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This is one of the coolest things I have ever used. I had two computers (a desktop and a laptop) and was getting tired of switching from keyboard to keyboard. Most of the time I ended up typing on the wrong computer. So I got to thinking VNC could be patched to create a quick remote connection to a second computer. But someone got the idea before me!

Win2VNC is a cool hacked up VNC client that tracks when you scroll off the side of your screen and automatically send your mouse and keyboard to the second computer connected with VNC. Its like a standard dual monitor setup on windows except it is a dual comptuer setup. You can even cut and paste between the two machines!

Now I thought this was cool when I used with between my Windows 2000 laptop and my Windows XP desktop. But the other day I got the chance to try it with my Windows XP desktop and a Mac OSX desktop. It worked just as good…..and I can use my 2 button mouse on the Mac to have a right click!

If you use more than one computer at a tme you have to look into it. You need Win2VNC on one machine and a VNC server on another computer. Win2VNC only works on Windows currently.

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