Meet Hercules, A Portable Speaker System For iPods

July 5, 2009

The ocean's still goose-bump cold, but the wet, wild and loud season has begun. It's summer.

Recent columns

• Making Your Digital Music Files Really Sing

  June 21, 2009

  The Music Streamer, a digital-to-analog converter that could fit in a butter dish, might be the most convincing argument yet to use a computer's music library for something other than an iPod's sugar daddy.

• Thinking Mobile, Summer Style

  June 14, 2009

  Summer mode has officially kicked in, when mobile warriors consider, however fleetingly, giving up their till-death-do-they-part portable device for a long weekend, a week's stay at the beach or an overnight getaway.

• Getting The Most From A Surround-Sound System

  May 17, 2009

  It looked so easy in the store. Five speakers (or six or seven), a subwoofer and one glorious home theater — until, that is, you brought it all home.

• I'll Show You My Apps, You Show Me Yours

  May 10, 2009

  Pigs fly! The iPhone (and iPod Touch) have made it cool to talk about "apps" — the 25,000-plus applications available at the iTunes store.

• Legal Or Not, Industry Can't Stop DVD Copying

  May 3, 2009

  This story is made for Hollywood.

• Apple Needs To Polish HD Downloads

  April 12, 2009

  Armed with little more than the iPod and tunes downsized into the meekest of digital audio files, Apple overthrew the music distribution industry.

• iPod Batteries: The Inside Story

  April 5, 2009

  The $165 million in bonuses dished out to AIG executives last month was a national-scale raw deal. Today, I return to a more palatable, personal-scale raw deal: the exorbitant price ($49 and up!) that Apple wants to replace an iPod battery.

• Will The Real Ewoo eFizz Stand Up?

  March 29, 2009

  You are about to meet Ewoo eFizz.

• JBL Weighs In With A Wireless, But Still Hulking, Subwoofer

  March 22, 2009

  The subwoofer, in good times and bad, is the voice of authority in a home theater.