Even when you work at home or in the office, your netbook can make a handy addition to your computer setup. But switching back and forth between your main machine and the netbook can be rather inconvenient. Enter QuickSynergy, a graphical tool to the Synergy application which allows you to seamlessly share the mouse and the keyboard between two or several machines.

Looking for an easy-to-use file sharing and synchronization solution that works with Linux? You might want to give Dropbox a try.