Sharing Files On Your Brand New Cloud

Picture this. It’s Saturday at 9:30a.m. Your mother calls. “Hey, Mom.” “Don’t you ‘hey’ me. Whatever happened to those bicycle relay race pictures you were going to send me?” “Well, I sent you the download link last week, Mom didn’t you get that?” “How did you send it to me? The mail?” Okay, let’s just […]

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A Cloud Of Our Own / #NextCloud

Happy Friday! Man, that took long enough, didn’t it? Good thing we’re sharing a new project with you in time for the weekend. On Tuesday, Steph shared a “home cloud” solution with you, called NextCloud.  If you haven’t read it already head on back to A Cloud Of Your Own. As promised, we’re going to […]

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Installing Linux Part 2: Installing Linux Mint

Grettings from The Nerd Garden.  My name is Aaron. Today I am going to continue our Linux saga from our previous post Installing Linux Part 1. The world of open source software is vast to suit the needs various people. So why not try another flavor of Linux? To start lets try another similar Linux […]

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Ulysses: Nine Months and No Turning Back

  This past winter, I blogged about some of the challenges I experienced after upgrading my Mac to El Capitan. One of the biggest were problems that arose with my go-to writing app (at the time), Scrivener. Before I jump into that, let me bring you up to speed on my former Scrivener devotion and […]

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What is this Linux thing? And why do I care?

Do you ever get tired of Windows? Even a die-hard Mac user has moments when they want to walk away from their current operating system. Wouldn’t you like to be able to customize your OS the way you want? How about install apps easier? Maybe even increase the performance of your machine? I do. That’s […]

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How To Buy A Laptop

(When You Know Nothing About Buying A Laptop) You guys know how it is… You need to buy a laptop for your college freshman, yourself, whomever. You walk into a retail store and BAM! You come face-to-face with a pushy salesperson who treats you like an idiot. Worse? You end up leaving with some expensive […]

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