This compartment also hosts the compact flash card. The included software looks similar to that of most other digital cameras. The EX also has an IR port allowing IRDA 1.0 transfer of pictures to PC and to other Digita based cameras. Using IR to connect to a PC also allows the PC to control the camera remotely. The EX also has a video out cable that I have not experimented with.
Program mode is pretty interesting.
The camera, like most amateur SLR's, allows the setting of various program modes that bias aperature and shutter speed. Modes include settings for portrait mode, landscape mode, night mode, slow sync mode, and so on. It doesn't appear to do major harm to the pictures and might be suitable as a poor mans photoshop. There are dedicated buttons for status, overlay and menu underneath the LCD softkeys. The status key brings up a display showing information such as the number of shots taken, flash status and so on.