Last week was quite a week. I spent most of it setting up my new Media Center PC at work and subsequently flattening and reinstalling everything on my laptop. Now that they're both up and running, life is good. I got the super sweet IOGear GCS1744 KVM Switch that allows you to share two monitors and all usb peripherals with up to four computers. It even allows you to share your speakers! And the kicker is that you can mix which port is active. So I can have my speakers playing music on my desktop and be working on my laptop with the keyboard, monitor, and mouse. The hardware is also nicely constructed and very compact. Kudos, IOGear.

I thought life could not get much better in the keyboard sharing world until I found Synergy. This neat little app allows me to move my mouse off my desktop and onto my laptop screen seemlessly...no switching. I know this may seem like it renders my IOGear box useless, but it does not. This software requires each PC have it's own display. So when I get more computers (and yes, there will be more), I will still need to flip the IOGear to use them.