Nicholas Stango

The Ten Most Wasteful Transportation Projects in Modern History

Microsoft accounts will soon have two-step authentication along with an Authenticator app for Windows Phone 8

The Control Room of a German Submarine from 1918

Taken in November of 1918 these two photos show the inside of the UB-110 German Submarine. The valves were used to control the submarine and the reverse image is of four torpedo tubes used against a merchant ship in July 1918. Soon after the attack the submarine sunk and later was salvaged, but scrapped. Follow…

Google is now using Gmail’s new compose experience as the default one.

Watch These Classic Movie Trailers Re-Purposed for Vine

Trailer-editing professionals TOKYO experimented with Vine recently by re-editing a handful of trailers into six-second, near seizure-inducing cinematic bursts inspired by The Wolverine Vine trailer. You’ve never seen Aliens like this. https://gizmodo.com/vine-is-twitters-new-gif-like-video-sharing-service-5978676 The set of trailers are posted under the twitter handle @retweaser. It’s good to see Vine not providing only terrible content. [Glass Eye…

Microsoft is updating IE 10 in Windows 8 and RT to allow Flash content to run by default tomorrow.

MSFT Office 365 is free to college students for six months and includes 20GB of SkyDrive and 60 Skype minutes.

Nokia’s Nokia Music + is live, for Nokia Lumia owners only, of course.

One Swedish Made Light Enlarging Lamp

Simple is an understatement when it comes to the Vinge, a fine piece of lamp from Swedish design firm Note Design Studio. Stripped down to its essentials, the fixture puts out a beautifully soft light as a result of its massive white dome. And if the quality of light weren’t enough for you, the wing…

Food Shooting Challenge

In my photograph, a zombie child is feasting on what is portrayed as handfuls of intestines and body organs but is actually a full dinner-plate-amount of boiled spaghetti noodles, uncooked ravioli, and a few drops of red food dye to create a bloody appearance. The photo shoot occurred on a warm day in my backyard.…

Alphabet Robots Are Still The Best Way to Learn The Alphabet

All these modern-day kids have iPad and iPod touch apps to learn the alphabet. My kindergarten class had a box of these Alphabet Robots for our grimey, snot-ridden hands to play with. With just one or two minor adjustments, a letter of the alphabet suddenly transformed into an adorable little robot creature. This was awesome.…

Everything You Need to Know About the New BlackBerries

This morning the world held its collective breath as RIM BlackBerry took its sweet ass time trotting out the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 and amidst all the shenanigans, the company formerly known as RIM managed to show off a few notable new BB10 features, too. In case you missed all the live coverage this morning,…

Windows Phone users rejoice! Google has extended Exchange ActiveSync support till July 31st. [Windows Phone Blog]

Wood Shooting Challenge

Camera: Nikon D200 Lens: Nikon 35mm F1.8 Story: The picture is of the side/corner of a cabin at the camp I was at this weekend. The light was late afternoon/early-evening, and really brought out the grain of the wood. It is a simple shot, showing the perception of depth of colors in an essentially monochrome…

The Nexus 4 is back in stock in the Google Play Store. Grab one now before it’s too late!

WinPho Users Might Be Without Google Cal/Contacts Sync for Up to Six Months

New Windows Phone users will be left out in the cold after January 30th asnewly connected Google accounts will no longer work through Exchange ActiveSync. Something we’ve known since last December, which caught Microsoft by “surprise”. But fret not, Microsoft is scrambling to push out an update that will support Google’s CardDAV and CalDAV system.…

Google pulls its maps support for the Windows Phone IE browser. Ready? Fight. (Update: Just kidding!)

Battery Status: Always Know How Much Juice You’ve Got

Keeping track of battery life on your phone can be a major stressor for the obsessive compulsive. Battery Status is the perfect app to put those worries to bed. What does it do? Gathers reports on your battery life and average charge times. Graphs battery drain speeds and gives you a detailed log of your…

Galaxy Camera Samples

ISO 1600 ISO 3200 ISO 1600 ISO 3200 Instagram All the way zoomed in at a very dark show ISO 800

Fall Shooting Challenge Gallery 3

My first entry. I was walking to my dorm around 5:30 PM (don’t let the metadata fool you) a few weeks ago when I noticed this beautiful little moment. I didn’t have my camera on me, and I had no time to run back with it, so I just sat there and beheld it for…