music and movies

Hard drives that super size your devices

My favorite movies, music and photos live on hard drives.  But I like to enjoy them on my tablet or smartphone.  Unfortunately, my hard drives and devices don’t play well together— tablets don’t typically make it easy to connect to a drive, and there’s often not enough space to copy over everything you need anyway.

Today Show: Gadgets for the Beach and BBQ

Summer is in full swing: Fun in the sun, lots of travel, and BBQ every night for dinner.  If you can’t live without your gadgets when you head to the pool or the beach, you’ve got to make sure they can survive all the fun!  I stopped by the Today Show to talk summer tech

Share piles of photos and videos for free

Sending a photo or a video every now and then is doable.  Sending a day-at-the-zoo pile of photos and videos to two sets of grandparents, and aunt and a couple uncles?  Now that can be a pain.  Email’s definitely not the way to go— and your phone’s native software will put a cap on how

Make your TV do more

Using your TV to just watch TV is like using your smart phone to just make calls. For less than a hundred bucks you can turn your TV set into a movie theater, a photo album and stereo with a wireless streaming device. We picked two great products to compare and contrast for you so

Cloud-based music storage that really rocks

You know we’re all about the cloud (remember our Twirl about it?), but with so many options out there (iCloud for Mac users, Google Music, Amazon Cloud, not to mention all the paid streaming services) we wanted find a simple option to store and have access to your music anytime from anywhere. We did… and

Your music, heard round the house, wirelessly.

Remember when top quality speakers were the size of a wing chair and about as portable? Not to mention they required an explosion of wires to connect with your stereo? Well, since most of us play or stream our music digitally nowadays, those systems seem downright Flintstone-ian. The perfect solution? The Sonos S5 (a.k.a. the