Drones were hot products in 2015 and continue to be so in 2016. Taking good photos and capturing interesting videos with a drone is not easy, but it opens up a whole new world to travel photographers and everyone else interested in photography. Dronestagram is a site that only publishes … Read >
The best smartphones for reading ebooks
The original Kindle ereader had a six-inch greyscale display and Sony had really nice compact ereaders with five-inch screens. Today’s smartphones tend to have five-inch and larger screens. Additionally, smartphone displays have at least two times higher pixel density than ereaders. It is not surprising that book industry experts are … Read >
Museum dedicated to writers to open in Chicago in 2017
Avid readers will have a new destination to visit in 2017 when the American Writers Museum opens to the public. As the museum’s name implies, it will focus on North American writers. There are many museums around the world dedicated to an individual author or authors who lived in a … Read >
The most popular articles on Klaava.com in 2015 were about ebooks, photography and travel
Ebook, photography and travel articles and news attracted the biggest number of readers on Klaava.com in 2015. Since Klaava produces non-fiction ebooks and develops visually rich Klaava Travel Guide book series , the subjects of the most popular articles is not exactly a huge surprise.
The popularity of photography can … Read >
Solution for all of us who want an easy way for creating spectacular timelapse videos
Timelapse photography is so spectacular way of taking pictures that it drives many travel and landscape photographers to study the secrets of the technique. Once they discover how laborious it is, how much time it requires and what kind of equipment is needed, many simply forget it. French startup Enlaps … Read >
Barcelona, Spain selected as the city of literature 2016 by Unesco
Each year Unesco, a United Nations organization that focuses on development of education, science and culture, nominates a number of cities for different fields of culture that constitute the Creative Cities Network. For instance, film, music, media arts, gastronomy, design, crafts and literature get their own global capitals. For 2016, … Read >
Manage your action camera photo and video shots remotely from the Apple Watch
GoPro action cameras are popular among adventure travelers, explorers and adrenaline junkies. GoPro is also the default add-on camera for many drone models that don’t come with a camera of their own. Controlling the camera can sometimes be difficult if it is attached, for instance, to a helmet and hands … Read >
The best countries to live in, ranked by the United Nations
If you ask the United Nations or Norwegians what is the best country in the world to live in, the answer is unanimous: Norway. The United Nations Development Programme has tallied up vast amount of data from 2014 from the world’s countries and created the Human Development Index that can … Read >
Extreme bicycling by Danny MacAskill on the rooftops of Las Palmas, Spain
Cyclist Danny MacAskill has performed a series of hair-raising stunts on the roofs of Las Palmas in Canary Islands in Spain. Not only does he jump from roof to roof on his bicycle but he also balances on narrow walls that protect terraces from the sun and wind.
Fortunately, we … Read >
Close-up photography on smartphone is fun and easy with an affordable clip-on macro lens
The image quality on smartphone cameras has developed so high that even professional photographers take pictures with their smartphones, because it is always at hand. Obvious limitations in camera phone photography – lack of manual controls and a fixed lens – simply have to be overcome through creativity. There are, … Read >