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AgNition establishes exciting new partnership with GFO
Monday, April 22, 2013
AgNition and Grain Farmers of Ontario are excited to unveil two new smart phone apps for BlackBerry.
The Grain Farmers of Ontario SellSmart app for smartphones was developed two years ago to provide cash bids for grain at basis points across th
e province at a farmer’s fingertips. Now, members are able to use their smart phones not only to … Read the rest »
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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON GIZMODO.COM
The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration—Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard—bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.
But while the Pro … Read the rest »
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Featured Device Reviews
ASUS Zenbook Prime review: a blazing 15-inch Ultrabook with a lofty price
THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON ENGADGET.COM
Windows 8 has ushered in an era of category-defying devices, with hybrid machines that bend, flip around, lie flat and otherwise contort flooding the market (and our offices). When virtually every Windows 8 product we’ve reviewed possesses acrobatic abilities, it’s easy to forget regular ol’ laptops are running Microsoft’s new OS, too.
One such … Read the rest »
Touch Laptops: What’s Great—And What’s Not
Curious about all the hoopla about touch laptops? Read this in-depth review about what’s great and what’s not in these tablet/laptop hybrids
THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON GIZMODO.COM
I’m a little embarrassed to admit how much I like the Surface RT. I wasn’t expecting a lot when I ordered it, but after a day of use, I realized … Read the rest »
Featured App Reviews
Add This to Your Bucket List of Apps
Farmers running hand-picked crop harvesting operations can use a new app that can save them several hours per week in administration work. The app is called BucketLoad (http://bucketloadapp.com/) and it removes the administrative and preliminary accounting work.
So how does it work? The farmer can use a QR or barcode to scan a picker’s ID badge which … Read the rest »
Soybean Aphid App Helps Farmers Diagnose Infestation in the Field
The Aphid Advisor app is a decision-making tool to help determine whether a control action is warranted for Soybean Aphids (Aphis glycines) on soybeans in the province of Ontario, Canada. This app uses aphid and natural enemy numbers, as well as expected population growth rates, to indicate whether there are enough natural enemies to keep aphid populations below action thresholds or if an insecticide application may be needed.
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