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Clayne has been with Intel for long enough to know alot of Intel acronyms. He enjoys coding so much that he forgets to blink while he does it. He has a lot of education in music, and enough in computer science to be dangerous. When he's not working at the office, he works at home with his wife to raise their 7 kids. If you can, send him a message in Chinese!

Navigation: Nexus One vs. iPhone

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on February 19, 2010 at 12:38 pm
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I have been relieved of my 3-year iPhone envy. We just moved to Phoenix and for my wife, who is directionally challenged, I bought Google Nexus One so she wouldn't need to keep calling me for directions. I was torn between the iPhone and the Nexus One because, frankly, I've wanted an iPhone for a [...]

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Category: Mobility, Uncategorized
Tags: MID, Navigation, platform awarness, smartphone

Writing an AIR app for the Intel AppUp Store

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on February 12, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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Getting your AIR app ready for the Intel AppUp Store.

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Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Uncategorized
Tags: Adobe AIR

Cool New features in Adobe AIR 2.0!

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on November 2, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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Christian Cantrell at Adobe just outlined some of the new features in Adobe AIR 2.0. Wow! There are some really exciting things that you'll be able to do. I found the following particularly interesting: Storage: Previous versions of AIR provided very little meta info about the host device's storage capability. AIR 2.0 allows developers not only [...]

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Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program
Tags: Adobe AIR, Adobe AIR 2.0, Intel ® Atom Developer Program, moblin, Moblin 2.0, platform awareness

Sensor Access in Your Web App

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on October 29, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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You are a JavaScript programmer. You want to write an application that can access some really cool sensors on the client platform: accelerometer, gps, thermometer, compass, ambient light sensor, etc. There are different ways that such an API might show up. For example, to access temperature on the client,

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Category: Mobility, Uncategorized
Tags: API, programming, sensors, Web Applications

Moblin Compass API

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on October 26, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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I just proposed a compass API for the Moblin Sensor Framework. We'd like to eventually make it part of the browser so your web app can use the data (See Andy Idsinga's post). But for now on the Moblin platform, it's a GObject API. Go have a look and tell me what you think. If [...]

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Category: Mobility
Tags: Compass, moblin, Moblin 2.0, sensors

Using the Accelerometer in your Web app

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on October 8, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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No, unfortunately, this isn't a post about how to use the accelerometer in your web app. But if you thought it was, read on. I'll be honest. As an Intel employee, I care about exposing our hardware so that applications can take advantage of it. But why should you care about the platform as you [...]

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Category: Software Tools
Tags: accelerometer, Browsers, cloud, Cloud Computing, intel web 2.0 TDK, mobile platform, mobile platform SDK, platform awarness, RIA, Rich Internet Applications, sensors, Web Applications

AIR and Flash Performance on Moblin

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on December 2, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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At Adobe MAX in November, Sean Christmann from effectiveui gave a fantastic presentation on Flash and AIR application performance. The typical view of performance optimization when dealing with any runtime is that the runtime is responsible for being fast, and there isn't much that content or applications can do to help. Sean blasted that misconception [...]

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Category: Mobility, Software Tools
Tags: Adobe, AIR, Flash, Flash 10, Intel® Atom™, MID, performance

Midinux 2.0 on a Q1Ultra

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on October 17, 2007 at 2:52 pm
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I got a copy of Midinux 2.0 Beta 5 the other day, so I took the plunge and blasted the OS that came pre-installed on my Q1Ultra. Installation was relatively painless, although I wished that there was a little more flexibility when it came to choosing which packages to install. But then, that's only because I've [...]

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Category: Mobility, Open Source

My Nokia N800

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on April 4, 2007 at 10:08 am
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Ooo! Got a Nokia N800 last week. Very sweet. I confess that standard distribution Linux on multi-purpose ultra-mobile devices can be laborious, but the N800, which functions quite well as a Internet/Communication tablet, is very clean and would do fairly well on the "Mom Test." As I played around, there were many things that made [...]

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Category: Mobility

So you've got a slick new UMPC. Now what are you going to do with it?

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on February 15, 2007 at 1:19 pm
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When I explain my job to people who ask me what I do, one of the most common phrases I use is: "People don't buy hardware for hardware's sake. They buy the hardware because of what software can make it do." Now I recognize that techno-geeks (like me) enjoy having the latest gadget just because [...]

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Category: Mobility

Linux on a UMPC? Don't go buy one for your mom...yet.

By Clayne Robison (Intel) (11 posts) on January 25, 2007 at 3:27 am
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Linux on a UMPC? Not the most user-friendly combination in the world. With an USB keyboard and external optical drive, I installed Fedora Core 6 on a Samsung Q1 a few weeks ago. Didn't bother with dual-boot (!), and it took me about 1/2 a day. Check out Carsten Schurig's blog post. I haven't had [...]

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Category: Mobility