I know, I know. Some would say it’s gross or perverse, but in reality it is undeniably awesome. You can install Amarok 2 under Windows using The KDE on Windows Project.  I’ve always been a fan of Amarok and have found Winamp and other various Windows based music players just don’t do it as well as Amarok. The only difficulty I had installed this was finding the native Amarok package in the KDE4W installer. I had to pick version 2.2.1 instead of the head stable release to find a prebuilt and working package for Amarok but alas I have it working!

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Synergy. This piece of software is probably the coolest thing I have come across. This beautiful example of GPL goodness allows you to delegate keyboard/mouse control from one computer across a collection of other computers on the same network regardless of OS. So think multi-monitor with a dash of multi-process, multi-OS and multi-GPU — essentially multi-computing.

Running my Ubuntu laptop alongside my dual monitor work computer with Synergy immediately creates a triple monitor and dual OS system. Besides the inability to drag windows across computers (uhm… think about it, not possible anyways) this software is amazing. It even allows the ability to share your clipboard amongst all the computers and handles window focusing beautifully, as well as many other amazing features. But what can I run it on??

• Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows 95 family)
• Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows NT family)
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Unix
  • X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up
  • XTEST extension
    (use “xdpyinfo | grep XTEST” to check for XTEST)

There you have it. Go try out this piece of wonderful invention!