Our mates across the pond sent us a KaysCase (ArmourDillo) tester with red accents. This Nexus 4 case is rugged, priced right and well made, save for one issue.

At first I was skeptical. Do we really need yet one more app snooping around our Gmail inboxes? Now, as they say, I’m a believer.

SwingTip consists of a small sensor that easily and quickly attaches to the shaft of the club and relays data to an app running on your iPhone or Android smartphone.

Scope supports five networks at this point: Facebook (blue), Twitter (red), Instagram (orange), Foursquare and Tumblr. In testing all worked without a hitch, and refresh rates were respectable.

Mediafire jumps into the cloud storage fray. The real carrot is 50GB of free storage. But is it enough to woo users of competitors such as Dropbox, Box, Skydrive and Google Drive?

I was able to adjust the EQ to dial in beautiful sound for a variety of music I sampled on the Jays One Plus headphones, including classical (Brahms), Pop (Peter Gabriel, Lady Gaga), Country (Johnny Cash), and Rock (U2, Nine Inch Nails).

In a world with Apple TV, Roku and on-demand services such as Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu and YouTube, is there still room for TiVo? I revisit an old friend to find out.

Construction is so flimsy that a hard week’s regular use would destroy them. Any self-respecting ‘tween in Silicon Valley wouldn’t fall for these.