{"id":1160,"date":"2005-01-06T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/synergy_not_jus"},"modified":"2005-01-06T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T16:46:51","slug":"synergy_not_jus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Synergy &#8211; not just an overworked buzzword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cold, raw, foggy day here in Virginia and it gave me a good excuse to blog and do research on the internet using a great little application called <a href=\"http:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net\/about.html\">Synergy<\/a> from Sourceforge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/synergy.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=580,height=485,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"370\" height=\"309\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Synergy\" title=\"Synergy\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/synergy.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL).<\/p>\n<p>It took less than a half hour to install it on three computers. (It would have taken even less time if I had read the instructions first.)<\/p>\n<p>It is very natural to use. The cursor flows from one screen to the other without a pause and the keyboard acts on whatever screen the cursor is on. <\/p>\n<p>Working at this console array is unexpectedly&nbsp; liberating. I can have open browsers on two screens while I create a post on another. I can cut and paste between screens, which adds a new dimension to writing and editing copy. <\/p>\n<p>With Synergy, I can finally make effective use of two laptops that were gathering dust for most of the time. I could add many more if I had the need. This configuration speeds up production and the price is right.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/\">Sourceforge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cold, raw, foggy day here in Virginia and it gave me a good excuse to blog and do research on the internet using a great little application called Synergy from Sourceforge. Synergy lets you easily share a single &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-iI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}