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PhraseExpress eliminates repetitive typing and is a must for everybody using a keyboard with a Windows PC.

PhraseExpress autocompletes text shortcuts in any application, provides quick access to the clipboard history and auto-complete often used phrases.

Text snippets are managed in multi-level categories and can be stored together with bitmaps and RTF, HTML or native Microsoft Word text formatting.

Phrase folders can be pinned on your desktop for instant access to your phrases.

A Quick Search allows you to narrow down the desired phrase with just a few key strokes.

The unique text prediction learns your individual repetitive text patterns and offers to auto-complete such phrases. Smart algorithms analyze and learn your writing patterns, and suggest the most relevant ways to complete phrases and sentences:

The Autotext feature allows assigning a frequently used text such as your address, your signature or a common phrase to a much shorter abbreviation. Whenever you type in the assigned abbreviation PhraseExpress will automatically replace it with the original text. For example, "ty" will be expanded to "thank you very much. Existing MS Office AutoCorrect entries can be imported for use in any Windows program, not just MS Office.

The Clipboard Cache enhances the native Windows clipboard functionality by remembering all items that are copied to the clipboard and storing them for later pasting. Clipboard contents can be pasted with or without text formatting:

Powerful macro functions can add dynamic contents to static phrases such as the current date, counters or additional manual input. Phrases can be linked or nested. Macros can also launch programs or open documents triggered by shortcuts. Entering 'calc' may open the Windows calculator program or striking the hotkey CTRL-F8 may offer a Google search query of a highlighted text on-the-fly.
A feature-rich automation macro language include if-then-else statements, string operations and data comparison.

You can find many programming examples at http://www.text-expander.com

PhraseExpress can be used in client-/server environments including Firebird and Microsoft SQL server support.

PhraseExpress can also run in portable mode from USB thumb drives.

Multiple phrase files can be loaded at the same time and optionally synced via Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, or a network share.

Check out what's new in v10: http://new.phraseexpress.com

The promo just launched.

Most mouse and keyboard sharing solutions, we are aware of, use the TCP network data protocol to transmit mouse cursor and keyboard input updates:

TCP is packet-based. TCP packets have a pre-defined static size. TCP transmits packets only if they are fully packed (in the particular application, data updates have to match the defined TCP packet size in order to be dispatched immediately) or after a time-out. If your mouse/keyboard data update packet doesn't fill up a complete packet, TCP waits for the next packet to finish the pending packet or waits for the time-out to dispatch the data -> Laggy cursor.

Possible solutions:

1. Reduce the TCP time-out parameter which will slow down your whole TCP transfer as small unfinished packets with a lot of packet overhead will entertain your wires. Too small values may stall your switch/router/network adapter.

2. Use a dedicated network connection between your computers to isolate mouse and keyboard data from other TCP traffic and experiment hours by tweaking the TCP packet size to matches the mouse/keyboard data update size. I actually don't know but hope for you, that Synergy uses data updates with static size to allow you matching with the TCP packet size. Otherwise you have to deal with a target that moves faster than a bullet.

Good luck.

For people, who have things to get done, other makers invested man-years to develop a custom protocol that is optimized to meet special requirements of mouse and keyboard sharing. Sometimes, pearls do not shine on the surface but under the hood. :Thmbsup: