I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Saw this over at BoingBoing, amazing that Apple developed this tech nigh on 15 years ago, but couldn't shoe-horn it in to the iPhone!
The video is an example of the Apple Newton in action ... doing ... Copy ... Paste!
And if that video doesn't work on here, then here's the source
Whenever I need to move around a line of text on the iPhone I put my finger on the area of text i'm looking to edit, then a magnifying glass pops up and in a balloon it shows me a few of the characters under the highlighted area. I can then roll my finger from one side to the other to shift the cursor left or right pretty easily. I think these taps and double taps on a text area, and the magnifying glass to refine the selection a bit more, and word\sentence\paragraph snap-to is a great way to go about implementing this! Would love to shift text from Emails in to Texts, web text to email\text, anywhere in to the actual phone softwares number fields for entering dial in details ... Annoying that I cannot.
Classic example of when a fancy iPhone and no pen nearly led to a time keeping disaster! I was suppose to dial in to a meeting last week, didn't have a pen let alone a scrap of paper on me, and couldn't memorise (eek!) the 8 digit passcode for the conference call. 45347687, or was that 54347687, or was it 4543.687 darn i've forgotten a digit, recheck ... ok got it, now tap tap tap, nope that's not it, GRRRR! Well, because I couldn't copy it from the text message and paste it in to the phone touch-pad I ended up misting up the car window then writing the number out, and then tapping it in to the phone. From Phone, to Window, and back to Phone. Sheer genius on my part I thought! But wish I didn't have to reach for a pen or mist up a window when I'm using this gadget!
Note to Microsoft: Please make a decent uncluttered easy to use phone, like this iPhone ... I'd buy it in a Flash (get it? Flash not supported on iPhone, arf arf)!!!