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How to Export Your Mac Photos Library

There are any number of reasons that one may want to export their Mac Photos (formerly iPhoto) library, including that they want to give it to someone else, they want to duplicate it on another machine, or they want to back their entire Photos library up to another location. But how to export your Photo library, while very simple to do, is not obvious. So, here’s how to export your entire Mac Photos library.

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The getaddrinfo Vulnerability that Has Everyone Freaking Out Explained

By now you have probably heard about the enormous security flaw that was recently discovered that, experts say, left thousands of applications and devices vulnerable to remote attacks and control. It is a flaw that has been around since 2009, and has the potential to affect any server that is running any post-2008 version of the Gnu C open source library called glibc. It is the function getaddrinfo() within the glibc library that has the flaw, and it is so widely distributed that it is impossible to estimate just how many applications and hardware installs are running the flawed versions (of which there are at least 7 main version and dozens of incremental update versions).

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How to go directly to your Amazon Instant Video Watch List with a Web Browser

If you use Amazon instant video, you may be wondering “Where is my Amazon TV watch list?” And of course, if you have Amazon prime, much of your Amazon Instant Video watch list will be free to you. With Internet television devices such as the Roku, many people are accessing their Amazon instant video watch list through the device, but some people still want to watch their Amazon prime videos on their computer, with a browser, and therein lies the rub.

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Google Maps Allows You to See Floor Plans of Malls, Museums, Airports and More

Google had made shopping, sight-seeing and travel even easier, by making the indoor floor plans of malls, museums, libraries, transit stations and airports, worldwide, available through Google Maps. The feature, previously exclusively available through Google Maps for Android, is now available on your desktop so that it can be used by all.