A friend of mine sent me through a link yesterday linking to a site about “Multiplicity”.

http://www.stardock.com/products/multiplicity/

No, he was not talking about that film with Michael Keaton but rather an ingenious programme aimed at sharing computers and monitors.

I myself use a single powerhouse of a machine with 4 monitors but the nature of the multplicity software is that you join 2 computers with 2/3/4 monitors whilst still retaining a single keyboard and mouse allowing you a little more flexibility in regards to multitaksing.

It took me a lttle while to understand the concept but I finally got it.

What it allows you to do is hook up a second machine to one of your monitors, so you would have two computers sitting side by side and on computer 1 you would run say your office programmes and whatever work stuff you do and on computer 2 you would run your multiplayer game like World of Warcraft or some rendering software.

The great thing is that you use 1 keyboard and mouse to move between the computers!

Check this blog from a guy playing two accounts at the same time using Multiplicity!

http://totalgaming.stardock.com/articles.aspx?AID=80603

Happy Computing People!