mouse without borders

Microsoft's PowerToys now ships a built‑in tool that makes multiple Windows PCs feel like one cohesive workspace — letting you move a single mouse cursor and keyboard focus between up to four machines, share the clipboard, and copy files across machines without buying a KVM box. Background /...

PowerToys has quietly eaten a lot of the small, focused utilities that used to be paid staples of the Windows power‑user toolkit — and for many people that means a one‑time purchase or subscription is no longer necessary. A recent XDA piece argued that five paid apps...

It started with a quest for simplicity—a search for some digital duct tape that could bind together the islands of productivity scattered across two laptops on my cluttered desk. In an age when the lines between devices blur for everything except actually getting them to work together...