Recently I got a new machine here at work and up to that point I was a single machine single monitor guy but, that's all changed. I sit next to Mark Edington and from the day he got dual monitors he's been telling me that I just don't know what I'm missing. I never really bought into that as I like to be a minimalist in terms of configuration to keep things simple. Well, I finally broke down and requested a second monitor so I now can see both my new machine and old machine at the same time (no more Remote Desktop).

Now the kicker... Shane Hausle who used to work here in QA once pointed out this software keyboard and mouse switch called Synergy. The Synergy web site description says it best:

So, if you're in a similar situation I highly recommend you take a look at Synergy as it works great even on my Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro which has a row of additional buttons at the top of the keyboard for Volume browsing etc.

Today I was searching for this old project called myHTPC which used to be located here but now redirects you here. So I downloaded and installed Yahoo Go for TV and low and behold rtl70.bpl, vcl70.bpl and vclx70.bpl sitting right in c:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Yahoo! Go for TV. In case you're not familiar with Delphi these files are part of the redistributable portion of the Delphi runtime.

I've seen this mentioned before but since I just posted about Yahoo's Go for TV I figured what the heck, might was well throw Skype into the mix too. Skype is only slightly harder to recognize as being written in Delphi but only because they've decided to package the whole application up into a single 18MB EXE btw, isn't it nice how Delphi gives you that option. If you search for strings in the Skype.exe you'll see lots of Delphi classnames like TInterfacedObject and friends.

Inevitably, the question "Can you point me to any well known large Delphi applications out there?" comes up time and again on the public newsgroups. Well, I think Skype.exe weighing in at 18MB and worth $2.6 Billion answers that question wouldn't you agree?