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your smartphone is often the most convenient way to snap pictures on the go unlike your point-and-shoot getting photos off of this thing can be tricky one of the tougher situations out there is trying to transfer photos and videos from a Windows Phone to a Mac can be done though and I'm going to show you how first step open up your Mac's app store and search for Windows Phone connector you should find this free app after installing it locate the app in your apps folder and launch it you'll see this intro page asking you to connect your phone with the microUSB cable that came with your phone connect your phone to your Mac and if you get an error just unplug it and try again it may take a few attempts but eventually you should see an image of your phone and some new options first stop hit the device options button and make sure the import photos option is checked and changed the event name to something more memorable the camera roll if you want you can also personalize your phone's name up here at the top hit done and then hit sync and your photo should get pulled over into iPhoto if you have a different app that you prefer to manage your photos in go into preferences and select it from the list if it's not there though you're out of luck now if you don't have iPhoto or if you just prefer to grab your photos manually select the Browse device option and you should see a list of all the media you can transfer from the phone from here you can drag and drop files right onto your desktop or into another folder finally if none of this is working for you you can bypass the software altogether and email the file right from the phone compose an email to yourself hit the paper clip and select a photo to attach you can hit the paperclip again and attach more photos so there you go that's my best advice for getting photos off of your Windows Phone onto a Mac for cnet.com i'm donald bell you