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Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com

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40 years ago, three human beings – with the help of many thousands of others – left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard. The entire trip lasted only 8 days, the time spent on the surface was less than one day, the entire time spent walking on the moon, a mere 2 1/2 hours – but they were surely historic hours. Scientific experiments were deployed (at least one still in use today), samples were collected, and photographs were taken to document the entire journey. Collected here are 40 images from that journey four decades ago, when, in the words of astronaut Buzz Aldrin: “In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind”. (40 photos total)

via Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com.

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Google Map Saver – Update

Posted on by deCoder

There is a new beta for download. It fixes the issue with big resolution maps. Now you can save over 10.000 x 10.000 pixels maps.

Based on a Firefox Hack, Google Map Saver (GMS) offers you an easy way to download huge Google Maps on your PC as JPEG, PNG-8, PNG-24 or BMP files that you can carry with your favorite device. GMS is light (only ~334 KBytes) and very easy run since doesn’t have an installer. GMS doesn’t write Windows Registry and doesn’t leaves other traces on your PC. Just download it on your Desktop and Run-It! GMS runs on Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Since is using Internet Explorer for retrieving the Google Maps, GMS requires Internet Explorer to be installed on your machine.