How to Export Photos from iPhoto to Hard Drive

1. Select your photos
2. Go to File --> Export 
3. Or shortcut "shift + commend + e".

How to disable the automatic launch of EOS Utility - Mac

1. Go to Applications > Image Capture
2. In the lower left corner of the window, it will give you the option to pick what program. 
3. Click on the one you want to change and in the lower left corner of the window it will give you the option to pick what program

Screen Capture with Shadow !? You Don't Like it ?

Using Mac OS X, you can press "command Shift 4" , then you can capture any area of your screen.

But it seems that the default setting make your capture have shadow.

If you don't like it , you can do the following:

Open "terminal"

Enter the following:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

And then:

killall SystemUIServer

If you want to fall back , you can .....

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false

And then:

killall SystemUIServer