I thought that this is something every photographer should know. It is a pamphlet from Bert P. Krages, A lawyer who is Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

"The Photographer’s Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the Bust Card and the Know Your Rights pamphlet that used to be available on the ACLU website. It may be downloaded and printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may make copies and carry them your wallet, pocket, or camera bag to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others, provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author. "

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Here is an interesting item if you want to see what your what your web creations will look like on an iPhone. It's iPhoney from MarketCircle.com. In fact they have just made it open source. The only downside is for Windows users. It runs on Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later

"Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free.

iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs. If you have questions about iPhoney, visit our issue tracker on SourceForge, as our support team doesn't provide technical support for iPhoney."

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What is the hottest gadget on the market today? Anyone? Anyone? OK, in case you have been hiding under a rock, it is the iPhone.

Now, second question; How long will it take someone to move a photo from Lightroom to the iPhone? Anyone? How about less than a week!.

Here is an article from James Duncan Davidson over at O'Reilly who will show you how.

"One of the things I’m sure many photographers thought when they saw the iPhone for the first time is, “What a wonderful way to take my portfolio with me wherever I go!” With it’s brilliant screen and easy pocket-ability, it’s a natural way to take your work with you and show it to anybody you happen to meet. But what’s the easiest way to get images from Lightroom to the iPhone? After a few hours playing with all the other features of the iPhone, I took a bit of time and set out to find out for myself.

The start of our exploration is in iTunes,

“HAL9000, an Italian group that specializes in art restoration, preservation and high-resolution art photography, has once again useda Nikon D2X to create anultra-high resolutioncomposite of an Italian fresco that fills the curved ceiling of a church in Rome. The 9.85 Gigapixel final photo, which is viewable online at full resolution, is a stunning example of the use of stitching to create photos with incredible detail. “

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