Stardock has finally moved most of their new Thinkdesk products into the beta stage (except for Multiplicity which is production ready).

http://www.stardock.com/products/thinkdesk/info.asp

Multiplicity is extremely neat in letting you control multiple computers from one set of keyboard and mouse. It’s not a software KVM in the traditional sense. While you only need one keyboard, you do need monitors for each of the computers (or a hardware switch for multiple monitors). The beauty of the product is that if you were to have two monitors next to each other representing two different computers, you can simply move the mouse from one screen to the other and start typing and it will be seamless. There’s no hotkey needed. You just move and go.

ThinkSync is another neat utility that lets you sync folders on different computers. There are a lot of utilities like this one but I like the simplicity of this one because it integrates with Windows Explorer and you can easily sync stuff over the Internet. For instance, I can be away from home (i.e. Starbucks, a friend’s house, school) and working on a document. When I save, the program will immediately (or at a scheduled time) send a copy to my file server at home to be backed up.

I haven’t yet played with the other applications in the suite yet but they’re definitely worth the money if you need these kinds of utilities.

Wow thats some sweet technology Its good for people who want that dual monitor feel but dont wanna have it still be one pc. Thats awsome i wanna try it.

Hmm that Multiplicity sounds suspiciously like Synergy .

Wonder if they’re planning to charge for it?

sounds like a shadow session in Remote desktop with separate separate screen for each windows

I do this now with Remote Desktop.  My desktop PC is on my main monitor and my TR3 is on the second monitor using Remote Desktop.  Operation is seamless.  Whichever screen is active is what responds to the keyboard and mouse.  No hotkeys.

Since this is built into Windows I am not sure why I would need another software program to do this.

[Edit] Having read more closely I can see one “advantage”.  If your activities are video intensive this would be better than Remote Desktop.  In my case I can put my wireless TR3 anywhere in the house and use it like it’s right on my desk.  No wires, no hassle.  And when I don’t need to use my TR3 my second monitor is available for use on my desktop.

ok.. tried it.
different story from remote desktop
so conveiniece.
i also tried to run game in one machine and switching between machine.
i thought it would be slow; but it wasn’t that bad.
.well,, i think it’s a cool application

[quote author=“invisiblefly”]ok.. tried it.
different story from remote desktop
so conveiniece.
i also tried to run game in one machine and switching between machine.
i thought it would be slow; but it wasn’t that bad.
.well,, i think it’s a cool application

It’s free which is always a good thing and it works better than the program I had previously (Remote Administrator).  Radmin wouldn’t handle my scroll wheel, had an annoying bug where clicking once in a scroll bar caused a page down/up twice and had no support for sound.

Windows Remote Desktop may have it’s issues but it works great for my needs.

also can’t really play fullscreen game with mstsc.