Jeff Cogswell

Google’s Android Studio is a free IDE for developing Android applications using the Java programming language. Although new, the product is actually based on the popular IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and was indeed a collaboration between JetBrains (the developer of IntelliJ IDEA) and Google. As such, users of the IntelliJ IDEA will discover the product […]

Google’s Android Studio Delivers a Full-Feature IDE for Mobile Apps by Jeff Cogswell Getting Started With Android Studio When Android Studio opens, a dialog box appears giving you several options, such as opening an existing project, importing a project or creating a new project. Creating a New Project If you choose to create a new […]

Today, a growing number of companies are making use of virtualization and private clouds. But along with such technologies comes business employees’ growing use of personal mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets to access corporate networks. As much as companies might want to try to keep the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend out of their offices […]

NCP Virtual Private Network Client Supports Android BYOD Security by Jeff Cogswell Here Is the Main VPN Screen When a connection is active, the main GUI screen shows that the VPN is on, and how many total bytes have been transmitted and received. Android Prompts You to Grant Permission to Run a VPN Client Android […]

In the world of cloud management, there are many levels of products available—those that integrate closely with Amazon Web Services, for example, and those that are more general purpose that can monitor any site. I’ve spent a lot of time with the bigger ones that integrate with AWS and are clearly targeted mostly at big […]

Anturis Monitoring Software Detects Problems in your Websites by Jeff Cogswell Anturis GUI Makes It Easy to Get Started When you first create an account and log in, you see a nice GUI that lets you immediately start configuring your components. Anturis Monitors Multiple Components Anturis includes monitoring for several types of components, including web […]

Here we go again. Yet another upgrade to Microsoft Office has reached the market. Microsoft Word is on something like the 12th version, depending on how you count it. The latest version is Office 2013, and while the previous updates for the past 15 years left me wondering if they were even necessary (I remember […]

With so many tools moving to Web-based solutions, the Eclipse community has recognized the need for a browser-based version of their Eclipse integrated development environment. As such, they’ve been working on the Orion Online IDE, which includes many Eclipse-like features, but runs in the browser with the support of back-end server software. I spent some […]

Installing the Eclipse Orion Server After installing and running the server, we were presented with a log-in screen that allows us to create a new account or log in. Ready to Create a New Website Once we were logged in, this screen appeared, where we can create a sample starter site, a plug-in, or import […]

Word 2013 Delivers Automatic Integration With SkyDrive When you save a file from within Word 2013, you have the option of saving to your SkyDrive. The file is saved in a local folder managed by SkyDrive and also uploaded to your cloud SkyDrive. Sharing Documents Through SkyDrive SkyDrive’s collaboration features are integrated into Word 2013. […]

I recently started using Microsoft’s new Office 2013 along with its SkyDrive integration. This has allowed me to put SkyDrive through the wringer and see if it works as well as Microsoft claims. I wanted to learn if this cloud-based storage was fast, reliable and, most importantly, was it useful? For starters, let’s talk about […]

Here’s SkyDrive’s Web Interface With a Windows 8 Look SkyDrive can be accessed through a nice Web interface that, like many of Microsoft’s online properties today, has a general Windows 8 look to it. The interface shows you your folders and files. Click on Folders to Access Data Files Within the Web interface, you can […]