If you’re in the market for a new notebook computer and if you can afford it then Apple has the answer coming out soon. You can pre-order them now. This is the 17″ Macbook Pro. It’s basically made for the road warrior, agriblogging, farm podcasting, new media mogul of today. There are a growing number of us and I applaud …
Renegade Combine Debuts
You remember the Rock and Roll Buffalo? Well now Machinery Link has the Renegade Combine. Here’s a first look at what they’ve done, working with the Chrome Shop Mafia. MachineryLink, Inc., the leading provider of combine leasing programs to agricultural producers in North America, today announced a collaboration with the Chrome Shop Mafia for the creation of the world’s first …
MachineFinder Blog
What’s new in used farm equipment can be found on the redesigned John Deere MachineFinder. They’ve also announced a blog to go along with it. Interesting . . . John Deere announces that it has completely overhauled and redesigned its MachineFinder™ website (www.MachineFinder.com) from the ground up to make it easier for used equipment customers to more quickly find the …
Farm Podcaster Temptations
Hey farm podcasters. Have you been wanting a new digital audio recorder? Marantz is offering some temptations. First of all there’s a rebate program for the very popular PMD620 (Cindy and I each have one). If you purchase it between now and March 31st you get a $100 rebate. That’s a deal. I recommend purchasing from BSW. Then to tempt …
Greased Lightning Awarded By AFBF and New Holland
As a gadget, I mean cool tools, kind of guy I thought this was a great invention idea and it won an award at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. Daniel Prough of LaGrange, Ind., earned the grand prize in the Farmer Idea Exchange competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 90th annual meeting. Prough won a year’s use of …
Satellite TV For Your Car (or Tractor?)
Kurt has a great post on our Precision Pays website that I thought I’d share with you. How about this for an extravagant non-ag precision gizmo? Among the many high-tech product launches at the recent SEMA (automotive specialty products) show was this AT&T Cruisecast satellite TV for your car–through a unique roof-top antenna developed by AT&T and RaySat. For a …
iPhone Apps I Like
It seems like a growing number of people I run in to have an iPhone. So I’ve been getting some questions about the apps that I’m using. I thought I’d just list them for you and invite you to post your own. These are links to the apps in the iTunes Store. NetNewsWire: Great news feed reader which syncs with …
New Farm Podcaster Tools
It’s time to take an agriblogging break. But first I thought I’d let you farm podcasters know about a couple new products you might want to check out. First up is the Incipio Lloyd Microphone for iPod Nano. Lloyd allows you to use your nano 4G as a personal assistant and note taker by unlocking the powerful voice recording capabilities …
Gifts For Ag Communications Professionals
It’s a little icy here in mid Missouri this morning. We’ve got about 7 degrees with a -10 wind chill. How ’bout that global warming! Have you got finished your Christmas gift list yet? Of course, that’s not the real reason for the season but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the news lately. It’s all about the money …
New Agriblogging Tool
Okay, so I can post today. But we’re still moving to a new server. In the meantime I’ve acquired a new agriblogging tool. The ZimmComm iPhone has landed. It’s a white 16GB monster that’s ready to rock this week on the road. I also got a new bluetooth headset since I guess I just wore out the old one which …