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Cool tool - VNC

My new PM pointed me to this tool. It's basically like terminal services. But there is an extension to the tool called Win2VNC which allows you to use one keyboard and mouse on 2 screens. Let me explain. I recently bought a notebook, so now I've got my desktop work pc and my laptop sitting next to each other on my desk. With VNC installed on both machines, I run Win2VNC on my desktop pc ( that has the keyboard and mouse connected) and tell it that my laptop screen is to the left(west) of my pc's screen. Now when I move my mouse to the edge of my pc's screen it disappears and reapears on my notebook screen. Then the mouse and keyboard relate to the machine where the mouse pointer is on. Very cool. You can even copy/paste between the 2 machines.

Of course, it's open source.

http://www.realvnc.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win2vnc/

Published Nov 05 2004, 09:22 AM by eduard
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Roaan Vos said:

THANKS
I've been using VNC for a while, but this is the first time I've seen win2vnc and it works really cool.
Thanks for sharing :)
November 5, 2004 10:39 AM
 

Eduard said:

We aim to please :)
November 5, 2004 10:54 AM
 

TrackBack said:

November 11, 2004 10:17 PM

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