Sharing keyboard and mouse between 2 computers

My “regular” machine is a laptop and has been for many years now.  The flexibility of being able to move around for meetings, design sessions and being able to close up and continue at home make that the best choice for me.  That said, both at the office and at home, I have another desktop computer that I can use to do different things.  At home, it has my video processing stuff installed on it, at the office it is just there for email, browsing, etc when my laptop is busy or off.  While it took me awhile to move to dual monitors for my primary machine, I adopted being able to use both computers at once a long time ago.  Until today, I only knew of one piece of software that did this, Synergy.  I have really like it for the most part.  It seemed to have hiccups every once in awhile, but restarting it was not too bad and not an every day occurrence.  After Vista came out, the biggest problem was that I could not have it startup automatically like I had on XP.  The project is open source and has not been updated in awhile, so I wasn’t anticipating that this would be something addressed soon and while trying to complete my setup of my laptop with Windows 7, thought I would google to see if there was something else.  There is, Input Director.  I installed this on both machines here at the office in a matter of a couple of minutes and got things up and running.  Seems to work good so far.  And it looks like it will address my issue with being able to start at startup.

Here is a screenshot of setting up the master and the hosts.  You can drag the computers around to show where they are in relation to your master.  This is much nicer than Synergy.