When you move the mouse cursor off the edge of one screen, it moves onto one of the others-you can then use your mouse and keyboard as if they were connected to that computer (free). You install and activate teleport on each Mac then you arrange the virtual displays on the master computer. However, instead of a hardware KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch, teleport uses a clever bit of software engineering that works much like screen spanning. With teleport ( ), you can use one keyboard and one mouse to control multiple Macs on a local network. It can even list the root user-if enabled-in the Fast User Switching menu (free). In addition to letting you display a user’s initials in the menu bar, customize the appearance of menu contents, and assign a keyboard shortcut to switch to the Login window, WinSwitch can automatically launch applications or open documents when you switch to or from certain accounts. But WinSwitch ( )-one of my favorite Panther utilities for this feature-is still quite useful. With Tiger, Apple finally lets you dis-play the Fast User Switching menu as a short user name or a user icon, so it doesn’t take up so much space. As a bonus, you can customize window shadow settings ($10). You can also assign actions to different types of clicks (such as control-double-click). Double-click on a window’s title bar, and depending on your preference, the window rolls up and out of the way, becomes transparent, minimizes in place instead of to the Dock, or hides completely. WindowShade X ( ) brings OS 9’s popular Window Shade effect to OS X.
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