{"id":535,"date":"2011-12-12T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:23:02","slug":"mouse-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/mouse-without-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time <a title=\"Synergy screen sharing software\" href=\"http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Synergy<\/a> user, I recently came across &#8220;<a title=\"Moue Without Borders\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/next\/archive\/2011\/09\/09\/microsoft-garage-download-mouse-without-borders.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Mouse Without Borders<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; and I have to say I&#8217;m very impressed. Basically it is software that shares a single keyboard and mouse, between two (or more) physical computer screens.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;d be without it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Running multiple virtual systems, means I have loads of screens to juggle, when switching between guest operating systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There simply isn&#8217;t room for 20 monitors!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But for the monitors you do have, the solution is to use <a title=\"Remote Desktop Manager software\" href=\"http:\/\/remotedesktopmanager.com\" target=\"_blank\">Remote Desktop Manager<\/a> from Devolutions Software &#8211; a fantastic piece of kit, allied to Mouse Without Borders for total command of the screen real-estate.<\/p>\n<p>MWB, like Synergy, lets you just slide your mouse pointer off the left edge of one monitor &#8211; whereupon it appears on the right edge of the other monitor &#8211; now your keyboard and mouse control that machine instead. Yes, I know there are downsides to these sort of apps &#8211; like disappearing off the edge of the screen you <em><strong>intended<\/strong><\/em> to work on &#8211; but if you can live with that, it becomes very difficult to live without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time Synergy user, I recently came across &#8220;Mouse Without Borders&#8221; &#8211; and I have to say I&#8217;m very impressed. Basically it is software that shares a single keyboard and mouse, between two (or more) physical computer screens. Don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;d be without it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tech","category-uktech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}