Apple Wishes THEIR Mouse was this "Magic" - Synergy
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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what from Linux to
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Windows over to the
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Mac over to Linux
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again over to window
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what how did he do that
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the N Mouse from Phoenix is ergonomically designed and comes with an
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8200 DPI sensor and rron switches click
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the link in the video description to learn more this video back from March
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31st of 2012 is one of the only videos that shows my personal setup it's also
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about like how I got this job and my mineral oil computer and whatever else
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it's also kind of one of my favorite videos but as some people noticed I had
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two keyboards and two mice that's kind of weird that was because I had two
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computers on two different monitors I love that I was able to control both
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computers quickly and easily but hated
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how I would constantly get confused as to which mouse or keyboard was connected
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to what and usually I'm not looking down at them when I'm operating them so I don't know what I even am doing and H I
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never got used to that enter Synergy in
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their own words Synergy combines your desktop devices together for one
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cohesive experience it's software for sharing your mouse and keyboard between
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multiple computers on your desk and it works on Windows Mac OSX Debian Ubuntu
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red hat and Fedora neat it allows for
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near seamless transfer of your keyboard and mouse it also allows you to do stuff
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like copy and paste items between computers or just text or whatever and
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it even lets you drag and drop files from one computer to another in order to
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add that whole cohesive experience thing
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essentially it's a network-based non-v video KVM switch that if you upgrade to
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the pro version is encrypted with SSL
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okay so that sounds pretty awesome until I mention the pro upgrade thing right I
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mean most of the software I've shown on this channel has been free stuff so far
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other than that display Fusion thing I guess but hold tight for a minute it's
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not really that bad considering what the program gives you it's actually pretty
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cheap it's 10 bucks or 29 if you opt for Synergy Pro which gives you SSL
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encryption and Priority Access to their support help desk this payment gets you
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the program and all of its updates for life I opted for the $29 option as SSL
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encryption sounds pretty cool and a lifetime priority support is also pretty
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cool also because its program is absolutely awesome and I want it to
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support the developers not only do they publicly display their link to glass
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store which shows their page of their employees reviewing their company on
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everything and it's very highly rated but they also offer free beer and food
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like a good startup should looking at
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you lonus okay and that's fine and dandy but how well does it actually work
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actually mind-bogglingly well and I'm not that surprised as their customers
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range from Pixar Cisco Microsoft Amazon
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Intel and Facebook to well me
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installation is a very simple spam the next button style procedure where all
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you really have to do is decide if the computer you're installing it on is the
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server also known as the one with the keyboard and mouse that you intend to
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share or the client also known as the one without the keyboard and mouse you
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intend to share or at least maybe possibly none even plugged in and that's
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actually sort of it if you just kind of want things to work all you have to do
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after that is decide where your computers should go on the screens and
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links Synergy server configuration panel
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one thing to note here is that even if your computer has a bunch of screens
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plugged in in a weird configuration or whatever it still just kind of shows up
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as one meaning even on a triple monitor wide setup if you have one monitor above
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it going on any of the computers that
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you have connected any of your monitors leaving vertically will go to that one
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even if it's like super far to the right and there's computers above that it will
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still go to the one that is configured as above your computer there are also
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Advanced server settings which most of which I honestly would leave def fault
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and hotkeys which are actually pretty wicked these allow you to assign key
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presses to rapidly switch which computer
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is capturing your keyboard and mouse this is really helpful if you have a
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massive amount of screen real estate or a bunch of computers hooked up as moving
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your mouse around the vast planes of desktop Valley can take quite some time
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also I recommend that you enable the Windows option to show the location of
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your pointer when you press the control key once you get above like four screens
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things get a little crazy Synergy already has and will continue to make a
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galactically impactful difference into how I use computers if it does for you
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as well I'd love to hear about it this video wasn't sponsored by them at all
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they don't even know that I made it I'd just love to see what kind of crazy
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setups you guys come up with now I apparently can't even remember to shave
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