Most readers here will probably know Synergy already, it’s a tool that lets you share one keyboard and mouse between two machines. The machines can run Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X etc. in any combination. I don’t always realize it but this little tool is as integrated into my work environment as the computers themselves, I simply could not live with out it.
Till now getting it going on the Mac was a major pain, it involved all sorts of silly files being copied by hand etc, was hard to make auto start etc. Enter SynergyKM, it’s a GUI to Synergy, has a System Preferences plugin and sits nicely in the menu bar (optionally) showing your current status. It supports auto discovery of your current location via Bonjour otherwise you can just select your location like the normal network location tool on the Mac. It supports configuring both client and server mode.
