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Now you arrive in, of all things, the <strong>iPhone</strong>’s Mail program, where a message<br />

appears, preaddressed, with the photo attached. That, it turns out, is how<br />

the <strong>iPhone</strong> <strong>com</strong>municates with your Web album: It emails the picture, just<br />

the way anybody can. Whatever you type into the Subject line be<strong>com</strong>es the<br />

photo’s title on the Web.<br />

Tap Send, then wait a moment. The <strong>iPhone</strong> flings the photo on the screen<br />

straight up on that Web album, for all to enjoy. (They do have to know the<br />

Web address of the album, of course, as it appears in the upper-right corner of<br />

the Web gallery. You can visit that page yourself using the <strong>iPhone</strong>.)<br />

Capturing the Screen<br />

Let’s say you want to write a book about the <strong>iPhone</strong>. (Hey, it could happen.)<br />

How on earth are you supposed to illustrate that book? How can you take<br />

pictures of what’s on the screen?<br />

For the first year of the <strong>iPhone</strong>’s existence, that challenge was nearly insurmountable.<br />

People set up cameras on tripods to photograph the screen, or<br />

wrote hacky little programs that snapped the screen image directly to a JPEG<br />

file. Within Apple’s walls, when illustrating <strong>iPhone</strong> manuals and marketing<br />

materials, they used a sneaky-button press that neatly captured the screen<br />

image and added it directly to the Camera Roll of pictures already on the<br />

Photos and Camera 107

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