Google Adds Alternate Routes to Map Driving Directions

My love for online mapping grows as someone finally adds alternate routes to driving directions.
The major benefit of this is avoiding traffic. In cities like Chicago this can be huge. It would have been awesome to have had this when I was driving to work, instead of taking the train like I do now.

It gives you the estimated times driving times for all routes, including estimated times with traffic. It also gives the transit info, including alternate transit routes and times for those.

I've been pretty pumped about this type of feature since I heard about it in the Dash GPS devices, and now it's finally something I can use.

check it out:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=S+Wabash+Ave&daddr=N+Arlington+Heights+Rd&hl=en&geocode=FWoCfwIdrO7G-g%3BFcozggIdXobB-g&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=12&sll=42.050057,-87.874832&sspn=0.134352,0.311737&ie=UTF8&z=12

synergy - awesome kvm

I finally had it this week having to use 3 keyboards/mice for my computers around my personal office. My friend, a while ago, told me about an open-source solution called synergy.

I installed it last night on two ubuntu machines and it was so easy and fast to install.

sudo apt-get install synergy quicksynergy

Then create a synergy.conf . Here's mine:

sudo vi /etc/synergy.conf:
section: screens
kelly:
mary:
end

section: aliases
mary:
192.168.8.102
end

section: links
mary:
right = kelly
kelly:
left = mary
end

section: options
screenSaverSync = false
# My KVM uses Scroll Lock to switch screens, so set the
# hotkey to lock the cursor to the screen to something else
keystroke(f12) = lockCursorToScreen(toggle)
end

Then start:
synergys -f --config /etc/synergy.conf

And that's it. It works awesome! Check it out if you have multi-monitors with different boxes.