Month: March 2021

How to share your screen with others in Messages on your Mac

Dan Uff March 29, 2021 0

Did you know that two Macs can share their screen with one another in Messenger? Here's a video from Apple Support's YouTube Channel to show you how.

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New York rolls out first digital COVID-19 Passports

CompuScoop Staff March 29, 2021 0

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COVID-19 vaccination passports have become a practical reality in the US. As USA Today reports, New York state has launched a digital Excelsior Pass that residents can use to prove they've been vaccinated or recently tested negative for infection. You can use your phone's virtual wallet (on Android or iOS) or a printout to flash a QR code and otherwise show that you're safe when you want to go to a concert or stage performance.The initial adopters will be large venues. Madison Square Garden in New York City will start using Excelsior Pass thsi coming week, with Albany's Times Union Center also in the pipeline. The passes will be useful in smaller venues starting April 2nd, and they're already useful to increase the attendance size of catered events like weddings.

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Amazon.com gets FDA Approval for at-home COVID-19 Test Kits

CompuScoop Staff March 29, 2021 0

Amazon received Food and Drug Administration authorization for a COVID-19 test made by its subsidiary STS Lab Holdco, and it plans to use it for its onsite coronavirus testing programs.

The test is done using a nasal self swab that can be done either under the supervision of a health care provider or as part of an at-home kit where a patient takes their own sample and mails it to a centralized lab.

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How to backup your iPhoto pictures on to an external USB drive

Dan Uff March 28, 2021 0

If you're like most people, you probably have thousands of memories as photos in your Photos app on your Mac. You'd like to find a way to copy them onto an external USB drive for safe keeping.

In order for this to be done, you have to make sure that you get an external USB drive large enough to handle the amount of photos (and videos) you have. Fortunately, these drives have come down in price considerably over the years, so that shouldn't be a factor. The companies that make these drives manufacture them in different Gigabytes (GB) from 512GB on up. For an idea of the price, click here.

This article assumes that you have the correct USB drive for the task ahead. If you find that the USB drive cannot handle all of your photos, then perhaps you should consider purchasing an external USB or Firewire hard drive. They too have come down in price over the years, and can be your sole source of backup for your important files besides your photos.

With that said, here's how to backup your photos and videos from your Mac.

Go into the Photos app on your Mac.
Click on the "Library" option to display all your photos.
Click on the first photo in that Library.
Now select [Command]+[A] for all photos.
Click [File] and then [Export].
For the sake of this demo, select "unmodified version" to export all photos in their unmodified form.
Now, Photos will ask you where you wish to save the photos. Select your external USB drive or external hard drive.
Click [OK]. The process should begin. The process will take a while depending on the amount of photos you have.
That's it.

Bonus Tip:

There is a 2nd way to backup your Photos content, but this involves backing up the main Photo Data File that's located in the Pictures Folder on your Mac, and may take up even more space than doing it the way described above.