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VLC Media Player 1.1.10 download




VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.
VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies.
It is a cross-platform media player, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU, Linux, BeOS, MorphOS, BSD, Solaris, iOS and eComStation.

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Moon interesting facts

The moon is slowly, but steadily, drifting away from our planet. Every year, the moon moves approximately 5 centimeters (2 inches) away from the Earth
1. The Moon formed out of the Earth

Scientists now think that the Moon was formed when a Mars-sized object crashed into our planet about 4.5 billion years ago. The collision was so large that a huge spray of material was ejected into space. The orbiting ring of debris gathered itself into a sphere, and formed the Moon. How do we know that this is how the Moon probably formed? The Moon seems to be much less dense than the Earth and lacks a lot of iron in its core. Scientists think that the Moon is made up of the upper crust material, which has mostly lower density, than the composition of the Earth.

2. The Moon only shows one face to the Earth

Although the Moon used to rotate in the sky compared to our point of view, it has been slowing down billions of years. And at some point in the distant past it just stopped turning from our perspective. The Earth’s gravity holds the Moon in orbit, but it pulls differently at various parts of the Moon. Over a long period, gravity slowed down the Moon’s rotation so that it finally stopped, and always displayed one face to the Earth. A similar situation has happened with most of the large moons in the Solar System. In fact, in the case of Pluto and Charon, but objects are tidally locked to each other, so they present only one face to the other.

3. The Moon looks the same size as the Sun

This is an amazing coincidence. From our perspective here on Earth, but the Moon and the Sun look approximately the same size in the sky. Of course, the Sun is much much bigger than the Moon. The Sun happens to be 400 times larger than the Moon, but it’s also 400 times further away. This wasn’t always the case. Billions of years ago, the Moon was much closer than the Sun, and would have looked larger in the sky. And the Moon is moving away from us, so in the distant future, the Moon will look much smaller than the Sun.

4. The Moon causes most of the tides… but not all
You might know that the tides on Earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon. But it’s not the only thing pulling at the Earth’s water, the Sun is helping out too. This is why we get very high and low tides from time to time. When the gravity of the Moon and the Sun line up, we get the biggest and smallest tides. Did you know that the Moon is also pulling at the crust of the Earth causing it to bulge up? You actually move a few meters every time the Moon is overhead, but you just don’t notice.

5. Gravity on the Moon is only 17% of the Earth

Want an easy way to lose some weight? Take a trip to the Moon and stand on its surface. Since the pull of gravity on the Moon is only 17% the pull of gravity on the Earth, you’ll feel much lighter. Just imagine, if you weighed 100 kg on the Earth, you would feel like you only weighed 17 kg on Earth. You would be able to jump 6 times further and carry objects 6 times as heavy. In fact, you had wings attached to your arms, you could even fly around inside a dome on the Moon under just your own muscle power.

6. The official name for the Moon is… the Moon

I know it’s kind of confusing, but the only real name for the Earth’s Moon is “the Moon”. When the Moon was given its name, astronomers didn’t know that there were moons orbiting other planets. And so they just called it the Moon. Now that we know there are other moons, it all comes down to the capitalization. The Earth’s moon is referred as “the Moon”, with a capital “M”. Other moons are given a lowercase “m” to show the difference.
7. The Moon is the 5th largest natural satellite in the Solar System
You might think that the Moon is the largest satellite in the Solar System. I mean look at it, it’s huge! But there are actually larger moons in the Solar System. The largest moon is Jupiter’s Ganymede (5,262 km), followed by Saturn’s Titan, Jupiter’s Callisto, Jupiter’s Io, and finally, the Earth’s Moon with a mean diameter of 3475 km.

8. Only 12 people have ever stepped onto the surface of the Moon

Only a tiny group of astronauts have ever set foot on the surface of the Moon. These were the astronauts on board the Apollo missions going from 1969 to 1972. The first person to ever walk on the Moon was Neil Armstrong. And the last person on the Moon was Gene Cernan, who followed his partner Jack Schmitt into the lunar lander on December 14, 1972.

9. And we’re going back to the Moon

NASA has been given the mission to return humans to the Moon, and set up a permanent research station. At the time of this writing, astronauts are expected to set foot on the surface of the Moon again in 2019.

 

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Space Exploration Made by Spinning Robotic Landers a Hop and Skip


LAUREL, Md. — A former robot contender for the Google Lunar X Prize may find resurrection as a robotic lander for surface missions to planets and moons across the solar system. Its secret rests in a spinning midsection based on proven satellite technology that ensures almost unshakable stability.
The spinning lander could land and hop across alien surfaces on springy legs that have the flexibility "between a golf club shaft and a fishing pole," said Rex Ridenoure, president and CEO of Ecliptic Enterprises in Pasadena, Calif. His company holds pending patents on the space technology that originated with Harold Rosen, a satellite pioneer.
One version of the lander intended for an asteroid mission might have extra detachable harpoon legs to temporarily anchor itself to the rock, Ridenoure told a crowd of scientists and engineers at the 9th IAA Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference here. Another version aimed at Europa might add a drill for tapping the Jupiter moon's icy secrets.
Whatever the destination, the spinning design ensures a relatively easy landing compared to most space missions.
"The neat thing is that the thing will not tip over," Ridenoure said. "The thing will just hop and bounce and skitter until it comes to a stop."
That vision began with Rosen, a former engineer for the Hughes Aircraft Company who first harnessed spinning back in 1965 as a way to stabilize satellites holding the same geostationary orbit above the Earth. His dual-spin design kept the main satellite body spinning while an instrument platform remained motionless.
Space explorers such as Galileo have also used the dual-spin concept. But even after Rosen retired from Hughes Space & Communications (now Boeing Satellite Systems), he harbored unfulfilled hopes of using spinning for stabilized robotic landings.
Rosen got his chance when the Google Lunar X Prize first debuted in 2007. The lunar landing competition offers a $20 million grand prize for landing a robot on a lunar surface, having it travel at least 1,650 feet (500 meters) and send data and images back to Earth.
The Southern California Selene Group formed by Rosen to compete in the Google Lunar X Prize included Ridenoure at Ecliptic Enterprises. The team designed a three-legged robotic contender, but eventually withdrew from the competition in 2008 after expressing philosophical differences with the X Prize Foundation's vision for commercializing space and human exploration.
But the spinning lander concept has not died.
Rosen handed off the technology to Ecliptic, and the company is now fielding queries from anyone interested in a possible low-cost lander mission. For comparison, the Southern California Selene Group had planned on a total mission cost of $20 million to $30 million while competing for the X Prize.
The spinning lander is small enough to reach many solar system targets by riding aboard a private Falcon 9 rocket developed by the commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX, Ridenoure said. And there is always the opportunity to pull up stakes and move if the original landing site doesn't work out.
"Once you get down on the surface, if you rotate the payload around and don't like the site, you can hop to another one," Ridenoure said.

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Motorola XOOM MZ606 Tablet Features



Now a days Motorola phone is used by each and every user.Motorola XOOM MZ604 also called Motorola XOOM MZ606 is a tablet phone that is not supported for GSM voice communication(s) since it does not come under GSM device.
Therefore; it will only work on networks worldwide; other than GSM. The product was announced in the month of February this year and the status of the same reveals it is available in market since March. Let us have a look on the features and specifications of this particular product.
Coming in 249.1 x 167.8 x 12.9 mm dimensions, the hand set weighs 708 grams, has a 16M colors capacitive TFT Touch-screen size of which is 10.1 Inches, WXGA 800 x 1280 Pixels, HD 720p. It has multi-touch method for input, user interface auto-rotate sensor is Accelerometer, has also got Gyroscope and barometer sensors.
Loudspeaker with stereo type speakers is added but there are no alert type(s) available with the Motorola XOOM MZ604/606 and same is with the call records. Then there are no GPRS, EDGE or 3G, an Infrared port, and a radio. With 1GB RAM, the handsets have internal memory options of 16/32/64 GB and 32GB memory card can also be inserted in micro-SD slot.
USB (micro) v2.0, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, dual-band, v2.1, and EDR Bluetooth are the Data options. Primary Camera is 5MP auto-focus and has dual-LED Flash and has resolutions of 2592×1944. Camera features also include Geo-Tagging, 720p@30fps video and then there is also a secondary 2 MP Camera added.
The OS Android handsets have v3.0 Honeycomb with a 1GHz CPU VNIDIA Tegra, Dual Core 2 AP20H processor. Java via emulator MIDP, HDMI port, document viewer & editor, digital compass, Google Search, G-Mail, Maps, YouTube and G-Talk or Adobe Flash Player (10.1) are also the features offered with Motorola XOOM MZ604.

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Mozilla Firefox v5 download

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As of March 2011, Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. The browser has had particular success in Germany and Poland, where it is the most popular browser with 60% usage  and 47% respectively.

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Spain are the European Under-21 champions


Spain are the European Under-21 champions, after beating Switzerland 2-0 in the final. Athletic Bilbao's Ander Herrera headed in to make it 1-0 after 41 minutes, Barcelona's Thiago Alcantara double the score with a sensational 40-yard free-kick in the 82nd minute.
 
 

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Cast of 'Gabbar Singh' is eventually finalised



Recently pawan kalyan Teenmaar entertained each and every section of the audience and it is a remake of bollywood movie 'Love Aaj Kal'.Soon after the announcement of 'Gabbar Singh' by Pawan Kalyan, which is the remake of a successful Bollywood film 'Dabangg', media started speculations and spread gossips that Krishnamraju or Harikrishna would play the role of Vinod Khanna in the original, Arbaaz Khans role would be played by Sushant and the names of Kajal Agarwal and Anushka are being considered for the heroine.
However, the latest information is that Nagineedu of Maryada Ramanna-fame would play the role of the Power Star's father, Ajay is being considered for the role of his brother, while Shruti Haasan was finalized as the heroine.
Let us wait for an official announcement in this regard. The film is being directed by Harish Shankar while it is being produced by Ganeshbabu on the banner of Parameswara Arts.

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To help Mexico to Gold Cup glory West Ham's Pablo Barrera scores twice

Pablo Barrera scored twice as Mexico beat United States 4-2 to claim its second consecutive Gold Cup title and sixth overall. Andres Guardado and Giovani Dos Santos also scored for Mexico. Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez was named the tournament's most valuable player.

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