Posted April 19th 20130
Last week, our Challengers submitted the final version of their perceptual computing apps to the judges, and this week, it was testing time. Our judges took on the task of putting each project through its paces, and wrote up their first thoughts on each and every one – in addition to general ...
Posted April 19th 20132
Posted April 18th 20130
Do you remember learning how to read? You might recall the simple wonder of interpreting something that had previously just been so many meaningless symbols on the page, the amazement you felt when you realized that these words – previously mysterious – were now unlocked to you. That’s the same ...
Posted April 17th 20130
As the app ecosystem continues to grow at an astonishing pace, one of the emerging niches is apps developed especially with special needs populations in mind. That classification could include kids and adults with mental disabilities, elderly people, and people with special physical needs.
Apps in ...
Posted April 16th 20130
Last week at the Intel® Developer Forum held April 10-11, 2013 in Beijing, China, Ultrabooks™ were in the spotlight as new experiences based on the 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family were ...
Posted April 15th 20130
Welcome to my blog page. I just wrote a Developer Guide (article) for implementing touch interfaces on Ultrabook Devices. This guide describes which APIs you need to use if you want compatibility with Windows 7, Windows 8 Desktop, Windows 8 Modern UI and also information on interfaces you can ...
Posted April 15th 20130
When you open Huda, you will see an interface that looks something like this:
The left hand side of the interface is divided into two sections: Folders and Thumbnails.
Folders are presented as the parent folder (the one at the top), the current folder (shown in red), and any child folders. ...
Posted April 12th 20130
I just released the Demo form my platform and interface library Betray and Seducecreated for the Intel Ultimate coder challenge.
You can download it here:
http://www.quelsolaar.com/Seduce_demo.zip
I will release ...
Posted April 11th 20130
This was the last week for our Challengers in the Ultimate Coder Contest: Going Perceptual to work on their apps and write up their last blog posting. The work for judges is only just beginning, as they receive the finished apps this ...
Posted April 10th 20130
At GDC 2013, Ultrabook Community Manager Bob Duffy sat down with Eskil Steenberg, founder of Quel Solaar and one of the Challengers in the ...
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Posted February 28th 20125
An effective elevator pitch can break the ice in networking scenarios and used the right way, can garner new clients, customers, or investors. Working ...
Posted February 28th 20120
Next week I'll be in San Francisco hoping the weather forecast is right and we get 7 days of sun, and the reason for my stroke of luck is I'm giving a talk on creating a better gaming user experience on laptops.
With portable PC sales rising and now surpassing desktop by some margin ( See the ...
Posted February 27th 20122
Posted February 24th 20120
Working with Consumer electronics and being a Techno Geek I find the evolution of our Radio and TV Viewing habits an interesting commentary on our connected world.
In the early days of Radio, shows were broadcast at a certain time, and the family would gather around the radio in the evenings to ...
Posted February 24th 20120
This will be the final post in my planned short vectorization series. Although I reserve the right to post more on vectorization in the future! In the first post on this topic, I explained that ...
Posted February 24th 20121
At GDC 2012, I will be presenting with Ian Ni-Lewis (from Google) on best practices for writing cross-platform native Android games. This presentation will discuss some lesson we have learned creating native Android apps that run on the widest range of hardware possible.
Since I work at Intel, I' ...
Posted February 23rd 20122
Last week, I was in cycle of several Android developers and partners who have needs to compile and build their own Android for Intel x86 platform from Google source repository, and read through a lot of success/unsuccessful stories. I decided to try my own build. That was a wonderful journey and ...
Posted February 23rd 20120
Hi Everyone –
I hope to see some of you in a few weeks at GDC. This year I’ll be doing an Introductory Session on Security Best Practices. This is going to be a fast paced debrief and introduction of the spectrum of: Piracy, Secondary Sales, and Account Theft solutions available to Game ...
Posted February 23rd 20121
In an ideal world, lead generation results in a sale. To get to that sale, many B2B marketers recommend approaching lead gen as building a better business partnership. ...
Posted February 23rd 20120
Before I tell you the whole story here is a backstage clip:
Behind The Scenes (Player) / (YouTube) / ...
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Posted September 13th 200728
Intel Software Network Graphics Developer Community
I come from the land of beefy workstations. When I first began animating and training cel animators to use digital tools, workstations cost about the same as animators and ...
Posted May 15th 200727
Back in 2002, I was managing the team that worked with Oracle on the engineering side. This was when they were transitioning from developing the database on Solaris to Linux, and we were helping them with this transition. Of the various requests their devs made, one of the first was "when can we ...
Posted March 15th 200927
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I've been working on getting H.264/AVC acceleration enabled. This project was started by a post by one of the community members:/en-us/forums/developing- ...
Posted April 27th 200927
Hi all,
As some of you may already know I am getting married May 11'th. Yes, yes, a very happy occasion. Doesn't leave time for anything... Well, there is enough for a blog post but not enough for writing code and doing some QA.
I actually started with the Radix-Sort Challenge ( ...
Posted February 27th 200926
So... Are you a skilled IT Manager? Or, did you ever wondered if you're fit to the job?Intel has released a new game: IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces.
It is a promotional game, sure, but a ...
Posted June 5th 201226
How does a high performance SMP on-a-chip sound to you? I can now share, for the first time, key details about our vision for Knights Corner (the aforementioned high performance SMP on-a-chip), and our thinking behind the software architecture and features. There is a lot to cover here so I’ll ...
Posted October 22nd 200825
One of the most common questions I get about MID's isn't a technical one - it's simply "where can I get one?" Here is at least a partial answer of where you can currently find Intel Atom processor-based MIDs.
It's a tricky question, and even people inside Intel have a tough time keep track ...
Posted July 21st 200625
Sometimes I wonder. Right now I am in Ottawa at the Ottawa Linux Symposium where more than 800 Linux and open source developers are coming together to discuss their latest ideas and to celebrate the success of open source (and let's just ...
Posted September 22nd 200625
Look. There are a couple cores on my chip. The way things seem to be going, there may be a whole bunch of them someday. Who knows, one day the stupid thing might be so lousy with them it looks like a fly's eyeball. Do I care?
Should I?
What sort of software application even needs to be multi- ...
Posted May 12th 200824
When The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The GoodI've already discussed the benefits to Intel Graphics and HDMI Audio in a previous post, and complained about the ...
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