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# Rick Maybury on Sky Player and moving holiday snaps onto a PC
## Rick helps a reader upload holiday snaps to their PC, and tune into Sky
Player.
![Rick Maybury on Sky Player and moving holiday snaps onto a PC][1]
Rick Maybury on Sky Player and moving holiday snaps onto a PC
4:27PM GMT 30 Oct 2009
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**Cleaning up my holiday snaps**
**Q: **My recent holiday shots include a lot of Venice taken from the waterbus
as it wound its way up the Grand Canal. The images are lovely and clear, but
there's quite a lot of camera shake, resulting in the water and horizon lines
looking wonky. Is there any way of correcting this using editing software?
_David S Myles, by email_
**A: **Most photo-editing programs have the facility to manually rotate and
then crop an image but there's a much easier way, and I suggest Google's free
photo manager and editing program, Picasa (http://tinyurl.com/6xst6l). Once
installed, open the first wonky picture by double-clicking on it and in the
left-hand pane, under Basic Fixes, click Straighten. This overlays a grid on
photo and by moving the slider right or left you can twist and resize the
image in one simple operation.
**TV channels on a Power Mac**
**Q: **I am a Mac user and find that I can access the BBC iPlayer, Channel 4
and 5 players but not the Sky or ITV Players. As recommended I have Microsoft
Silverlight installed. Is this because I am using a Power Mac?
_Geoffrey Booth, by email_
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**A: **Unfortunately Sky Player only runs on Intel-based Macs but ITV Player
is a web-based application. In other words it doesn't matter which operating
system you are using, The only proviso is your browser must have the Adobe
Flash plug-in. It's highly unlikely that it's not installed on your machine
but just in case it's been deleted, or it's corrupt try reloading it from
Apple's download site [**here**][5].
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