Hey Tony,

Came across an article you wrote about converting old laptops to extra monitors. Interesting. My situation differs slightly however and I was wondering if you had any tips. I currently have 2 identical dell inspiron 5100 laptops with max ram and pentium 4’s. They are sweet machines, and I use a program called synergy to share one usb keyboard and mouse between both laptops, so I never have to forward on my couch (I like to keep the screens about 4-5 feet away). This way I utilize the full processing power of both machines. My question is, is there an app out there that will allow me to drag and drop files from one desktop to the other across the network? I already have the mouse/keyboard sharing, so why not drag and drop ? I know I could network share certain folders and manually transfer data, but drag and drop would be really sweet. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

-Joe

Sure: MaxiVista and KaVoom! (The exclamation mark is theirs). They both support a shared clipboard between the computers (which Synergy also does) and copying files with drag-and-drop. MaxiVista is $50 and KaVoom is $40, though. I’ve used them both and like MaxiVista better.

I haven’t used Input Director, but it claims to allow sharing files between computers, and it’s free. Give it a shot and let me know how it works, please.