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Just installed the Synergy application. (Quick into here.) If you have more than one computer you can use this to keep using one keyboard/mouse pair for all your computers on the network. You just move your cursor off the screen and onto the next computer without lifting your hands! Really neat. Also, clipboards are shared so that you can copy text from one computer and paste it onto the other one.

My primary computer is a MacBook Air, and as such it has “hot corners”: the upper right corner for example shows my desktop. With synergy they are a bit hard to reach since you quickly move to the other PC. If you want to make it easy on yourself, just do the following in your configuration file:


air:
right(10,90) = pc


Which defines the pc as being to the right of my laptop, but only starting from 10% of the screen untill 90% of the screen, neatly disabling Synergy in the corners.

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Moving to a different country gives you more spare time, with which I can play. Just installed PanoLab on my iPhone, and I must say it works great. See the two examples below.

This is the Den Bla Avis building (the company that created http://www.dba.dk) from their parking lot in the marina of Aarhus, Denmark:

These are three pictures stitched together on the iPhone itself (and cropped in iPhoto on the MacBook Air).

The PanoLab application works great, stitching the photos together is really user friendly. My only gripe with it is when exporting the results you need to crop to a certain size–I just want to export the whole picture.

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