Category: Open-Source-Software

  • First setup of my Nextcloud Box

    First setup of my Nextcloud Box

    Last Saturday at Nextcloud conference in Berlin the Nextcloud Box was announced. Frank said it’s a part of his promise/desire to make the world a better place by bringing your data home. How can the world be a better place with Nextcloud Box?

  • Nextcloud Conference – Saturday

    Nextcloud Conference – Saturday

    Today the contributor conference started. Yesterday was more business oriented, today the “get things done phase” starts. Jos opened the conference with a few words, Frank, Joe and Jane repeated their announcements of the Nextcloud box and 50 boxes are available to buy here at the conference for 70 Euro. The missing RaspberryPi is provided for free. Frank said, […]

  • Nextcloud Conference – Business Day

    Nextcloud Conference – Business Day

    I had no idea what to expect from this conference but something inside said to me Go to Berlin, it’s important! So I went to Berlin to attend at least two days of the conference at Technische Universität. The Berlin Technische Universität is one of the largest and most prestigious research and education institutions in Germany and for a whole […]

  • Nextcloud Apps, Apps, Apps …

    Nextcloud Apps, Apps, Apps …

    So I installed Nextcloud Server and the Nextcloud iOS App and the OS X desktop client. I’m syncing my photos and other files and I’m so happy that everything works. I mean, not in the way “Yeah, it works somehow and I like it because it’s open source software and they are the good ones”. No, it’s more […]

  • Syncing your Personal Cloud with Nextcloud Desktop Client

    Syncing your Personal Cloud with Nextcloud Desktop Client

    After installing Nextcloud Server und Nextcloud iOS app last week, I noticed that there was no Nextcloud desktop client for OS X available on their website. One of the most important things in my personal cloud is the synchronisation between my Nextcloud server and my desktop. The reason for the missing desktop client was simple. The existing OwnCloud client worked […]

  • How to update your Nextcloud from version 9.53 to 10.0

    How to update your Nextcloud from version 9.53 to 10.0

    Et voila, the first upgrade to a new major version is necessary. Yesterday the Nextcloud team released Version 10 with plenty of new and shiny features. Everything will get better, faster and more secure. (Release announcement – Secure, Monitor and Control your data with Nextcloud 10 – get it now!). Thank you for that! How to upgrade? What […]

  • Nextcloud Photo management and sharing

    Nextcloud Photo management and sharing

    As promised in my last blog post I’m back with a few experiences concerning Nextcloud Server, the Nextcloud iOS App, managing photos and of course the whole sharing thing. Nextcloud iOS App Over the last days I took some photos with my mobile. The upload to my personal cloud (Nextcloud) works perfect. Inside the iOS app […]

  • 6. Display Content

    6. Display Content

    back to: 5. Create Content After you managed to create content, you need to think about how displaying it. This sounds simple but it is quite important. In the last chapter we created an article and featured this article on the frontpage. Visitors can see the article only by visiting the front page.   The […]

  • Nextcloud – Installation on shared hosting & first steps

    Nextcloud – Installation on shared hosting & first steps

    back to A Personal Cloud – But How and Why To run your own personal cloud you have to install the server component somewhere. After that you can access it from everywhere in the world with every suitable device. The best and most personal scenario would be to do that on your own machine in […]