It’s Launch Day!

Hello everyone! It’s launch day. We are so excited to announce the launch of our first-ever course here at The Nerd Garden. STOP PUTTING YOUR AUDIENCE TO SLEEP! 5 Steps To More Dynamic Presentations. For many years, Steph’s no only taught people how to be more engaging public speakers, but she’s coached them on PowerPoints gone wrong. This […]

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Our Afternoon Repairing A Laptop

Do you have awesome friends that you go to whenever you need technical support? To people we know, we’re those friends! So today, we’re sharing our recent experience helping our friend Keith. The Story Keith cracked his laptop lid and ordered a replacement. He called us when the steps needed to repair it numbered into the 20s. The day […]

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I Made An Epic Guitar Effects Pedal and You Can, Too!

Greetings my friends. If you’ve been hanging out here at The Nerd Garden you may have heard that, in addition to being geeky, generally tech-savvy, and all-around cool people, Steph and I are also musicians. Today I wanted to take some time to show off one of my favorite instruments. The guitar! Guitars! Oh yeah, man. […]

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5 Note-taking Solutions To Help Organize Your Life

  Hi Rock Star! Not too long ago, Aaron posted his favorite text editors. I thought it might be a great time to revisit my favorite note taking apps. I originally blogged about this topic a couple of years ago, but things change. I thought it might be time to revisit some of those solutions. Google […]

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Listen Up! How I Edit With Text-To-Speech

It’s Thursday! Congratulations to us. We’ve made it this far! I started this week off with a nice, hefty, round of edits from my new editor, which means, I’m definitely ready for the weekend. That started me thinking about my editing process and how valuable a role Text-To-Speech has come to play in my process. […]

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Pro Tips Series: Route Your Writers’ Conference Success

  Happy Monday, Rockstars! I haven’t posted a writing feature in a while—not since my humorous plunge into the topic of NaNoWriMo. Since you can find just about anything here at The Nerd Garden, I thought it might be time to revisit this branch of our blog. As a writer, I often attend writers’ conferences. Some are amazing. others so-so. […]

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By Request: A Review Of NextCloud Apps

Happy Thursday, Nerds, and Nerdettes! We’ve had several emails and comments about the apps that are available for NextCloud. Why aren’t we using them? What made us stick with solutions like Cozi and Google Calendar or Evernote and Notes instead of the NextCloud app family. When Aaron first installed NextCloud, he played around with some […]

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