I'm building a little play project and I'd like to use satellite images of a town inside deepzoom, what's the easiest way to get them? I'm sure there's a MUCH better way than PrtScn, I've tried google maps downloader but it doesn't download satellite images and it's company don't seem to be offering it anymore.
Take a look at Deep Earth, unless what you're trying to build is what deep earth give you - in which case it may remove all the fun ;)
http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth
If you want to go your own way, then it used to be that you could just manually request the various image tiles directly from the MS Virtual Earth server hosting them, if you could calculate the quad keys and build the correct URL, thus bypassing their payment model. Whilst I know they were looking to cut out this loop hole, that's certainly what early versions of Deep Earth did.