Typer Tappers

Well for years not I’ve been wanting to try out Synergy, I just never got around to it for many reasons such for lack of a personal network and not many computers to try it out on.

But after working with computers for a few years not I’ve built up a few scrap computers, and some old laptops on the edge of breaking down.

So my current synergy setup is a old 1.8 ghz single core desktop, and a 800mhz laptop (which I’m grown quite fond of) but the mouse is broken on the laptops keyboard which pushed me to try out synergy as the small screen is perfect for writing blogs, checking forums and the whole social side of things!

My Desktop I use for designing/developing websites, so it has to run quite resource hungry apps (which is a struggle for it) so this also brought me to using two computers at once, so on my laptop I can just run my browsers to see how the website is coming along and on my desktop I can just have open Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

Now on to my network, so I run over a Wireless network (I know gimme a slap on the hand) this is quite a struggle sometimes as the router isn’t all that good and struggles with large loads so I would always recommend running synergy over a wired network just due to the performance of it.

I shall now move on to my personal review on it.

I can’t live without it, I love it.

Their are a few problems with it related to my wireless network but it really doesn’t phase me, what else can you ask for I’m using my z-board and desktop mouse to write this on my laptop!

If you use the hell out of your computers, or just want to see things across multiple screens without splashing out on another graphics card and monitor, you will want to try out synergy, you can copy things from one computer to the other without any trouble at all you can put a delay on the mouse changing screens (must have), it really is amazing.

Synergy 2

So I noticed Opera 10 alpha release, I have become more of a Opera fan over the past releases… maybe your asking why know what I’ll tell you why but you have to try it out as well.

Opera is not only a web browser its a complete Internet suite, you have a nice download manager, email client, RSS reader and you can even take notes. What more can you ask for really, you actually do get the whole package without having to mess around with installing add-ons for the browser.

But you cannot forget the security side of using Opera, at the moment Opera is a rather secure browser especially when comparing it to Internet Explorer and Firefox, this may change when it become more popular but thats the way things work unfortunately… just means its time to stop using Windows – easier said than done really.

So why the fuss over Opera 10.

Well when leaving Firefox really the only thing I missed was the spell checker, this I really found hard to live without it they did allow you to use aspell but I did install opera a lot so it made it rather difficult but now they have a spell checker built within Opera 10 making life so much easier when writing a blog or just catching up on forums.

Apparently the new engine it is built on is 30% faster at rendering website pages, which I have noticed especially on websites build quite heavily around Ajax like Google Mail and when using a laptop not built for performance it really does make all the difference, I found browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer hung a lot while trying to load the resource hungry websites.

Unfortunately it is only a alpha release… but who cares I’m going to use it, I really have noticed the difference!

I don’t need to tell you though its Opera, try it yourself!

Opera 10 Web Browser