The Nerd Garden Upgrades To Next Cloud 12!

Happy Thursday, fellow Nerdists! You may remember that last year we demoed how to install a cloud storage solution in your home using a tool called NextCloud. On May 22nd, 2017, NextCloud released their latest version—NextCloud 12. This new release touts several updates, so it immediately piqued our interest. For this post, we thought we’d […]

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A Special Nerd Report

Greetings you lovely nerds, you! Steph and Aaron here with a quick update. We’re total data fiends and our stats—as well as all of you—tell us that you like posts every other week. Hey, we’re down with that! Starting today, we’re adopting a twice a month schedule for the summer. Tell us what you think. […]

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Stephie-locks and The Three Smartphones

Once upon a time…nope, hold up. We’re not going there. This a modern tale, thank you very much! Okay, here’s the skinny. I’m attached to my cell phone. I’m not one of those people that ignores others in favor of its shiny and sparkly wiles, but it goes everywhere with me. This is partly because […]

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Tiny Tutorial Thursdays: Setting Up A Gmail Alias

Hello and Happy Thursday! Aaron and I have been putting some truly massive posts out lately. Although we’ve heard good things from you guys, we’ve also noticed that you often dig the short and sweet posts. Enter “Tiny Tutorial Thursdays.” Twice a month we’re going to offer a brief tutorial on a single topic. Short […]

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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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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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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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