You can also copy photos onto a regular iPod if you don't own the fancy Photo model.

Owners used their PCs to copy photos off digital cameras, download music and movies and then transfer the material to other compatible devices.

To the Editor: As the Internet's capacity for data transmission increases and multimedia technology improves, it will become as easy to copy music, photos and movies as it is to copy text now (front page, March 18).

If you do that, the metadata is written to DVD just fine; iPhoto just removes it when copying photos from such a DVD back into your new library.

It is now also possible to copy and delete photos over to or from the SD card in bulk.

And when the printer is connected to your Mac or PC, it doubles as a card reader that lets you copy photos to or from the computer (except, weirdly, not on the Sony EX50).

The National Library Picture Catalogue states that permission must be asked to copy photos from their site.

Righthaven's business model has been based largely on suing small-time bloggers and forum posters who have copied articles or photos from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post.

You set up the screen by networking it with your Mac or PC - there's even a wireless model - and copy photos, music and movies onto it from across the network.

You can copy your texts, photos and music to a memory card (Memory Stick or SD), which goes into a slot on the left side.