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Developing Windows* Apps for Intel Devices

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Get the latest Intel tools to help you code, optimize, test and package Ultrabook Windows* 8 applications. We offer a number of industry leading software tools to help compile your application, optimize for Intel Architecture, make the most of graphics as well as to test and package your application for submission to the Intel AppUp store.

Developing Tools

Get more out of your app using Intel tools to make your code perform the best on Intel Hardware.

Graphic Tools

Get the most of your graphics and media with these tools.

 

Intel® vTune™ Amplifier

Boost Performance Optimization and Multicore Scalability with a set of advanced capabilities for developers who need even greater performance optimization.
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Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers

A set of powerful graphics and gaming analysis tools that are designed to work the way game developers do.
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Concurrency Checker

Measure the parallel performance level of your application with the fast, easy, and free Intel® Concurrency Checker. A Java Runtime Environment is required to run the Intel Concurrency Checker.
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Intel® Media SDK

Software development library that exposes Intel platforms' industry-leading media acceleration capabilities (encoding, decoding and transcoding).
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Intel provides the tool suites Windows developers need to deliver winning performance.
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AppUp Native & Runtime SDKs
Developer Services Beta brings a new set of cloud APIs that provide an enhanced set of app development capabilities and features for Ultrabooks & mobile devices. From C/C+, NET, AIR and Java, AppUp has SDKs to make use of key store APIs.
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HTML5 - Test & Package Apps

HTML5

HTML5 is an emerging development framework we happily support. We offer the following tools and resources to aid your development, testing and packaging of HTML5 applications for Ultrabook devices.

HTML5 Playground

Try various HTML5 code samples and test them out in real time.

Remote Testing Tool

Test your Ultrabook apps on the latest Ultrabook hardware.

Find the latest and greatest documentation to help your develoment project. We have technical guides, case studies, code samples, videos and thought-provoking blog posts. You'll find all the resources for Ultrabook development here.

07-Jan-2013
4:48 PM PST
App Development: By The Numbers
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Apple released this week their numbers for user downloads from the Apple Store since its grand opening in 2008, and to put it mildly, they are astonishing ...
07-Jan-2013
7:28 AM PST
4 Tips of Crowdsourced Testing: How to leverage crowdsourced QA for more effective testing results
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Like it or not, today’s end users expect their applications to work perfectly from the moment they are downloaded. Naturally, these heightened expectations have placed a great deal of additional stress on in-house QA and engineering ...
04-Jan-2013
2:04 PM PST
Perceptual Computing: Ten Top Resources for Developers
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Perceptual computing is one of the most exciting technologies to come our way in a long time, and it’s really just getting started. What is perceptual computing? Basically, it’s a whole new way to look at how we interact with our computers. It’s not just about the standard keyboard and mouse input ...
03-Jan-2013
4:11 PM PST
Re-imagining Apps for Ultrabook™: Full Series with Luke Wroblewski
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The Re-imagining Apps for Ultrabook™ video series introduces new ways of thinking about the design and development of desktop applications and offers practical design advice to help developers take advantage of new opportunities in ...
03-Jan-2013
9:29 AM PST
Writing Energy-Efficient Windows* Store Applications for Mobile Devices: Impact of Graphical Intensive Application on Processor Power
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Download Article Download Writing Energy-Efficient Windows* Store Applications for Mobile Devices: Impact of Graphical Intensive Application on Processor Power [PDF 734KB] 1. Introduction In ...
03-Jan-2013
8:39 AM PST
Writing Energy-Efficient Windows* Store Applications for Mobile Devices: Impact of File I/O, Network Transfer and Sensor Usage on Platform Power
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Download Article Download Writing Energy-Efficient Windows* Store Applications for Mobile Devices: Impact of File I/O, Network Transfer and Sensor Usage on Platform Power [PDF 734KB] 1. ...
02-Jan-2013
2:32 PM PST
How COPPA Affects App Developers
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The app ecosystem is growing at a fantastic rate, and with that growth has come an increase in concerns for privacy – especially when it comes to kids. If you do a cursory search in any app ...
02-Jan-2013
11:45 AM PST
Remote Debugging Windows 8 Apps to Intel Tablets from Ultrabook or Laptop Host
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One of the first things I wanted to see when I got my new Intel Tablet was to test some of the apps I develop for my Ultrabook.  Initially I packaged the app, saved to a USB drive then, inserted that into my Tablet and installed.  However as I made minor tweeks and changes that solution was too ...
27-Dec-2012
5:10 PM PST
Apps for Kids and Privacy: A Growing Problem
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Apps and privacy practices are not two things that you hear linked together very often, and with good reason: there doesn’t exist a good framework in the app development ecosystem for integrating the two in a transparent, user-friendly process. In a ...
27-Dec-2012
4:10 PM PST
App Privacy: Does It Really Exist?
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It’s that time of year when electronic devices of all kinds – smartphones, tablets, maybe even an Ultrabook™ if you’ve been really good – make their way under the tree. Along with these fantastic toys come a veritable blizzard of app downloads; anything from Netflix to Angry Birds to Drawing with ...
26-Dec-2012
6:04 PM PST
Power Analysis Guide for Windows*
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26-Dec-2012
9:02 AM PST
Tuning Algorithm Performance and Energy Utilization using the Intel® Power Gadget API on Mac OS X*
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Application developers striving to deliver the fastest and most efficient applications have a new tool in their optimization toolkit, the Intel Power Gadget 2.5. The Intel Power Gadget is a software-based estimation tool for applications running on 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors. It’s ...
21-Dec-2012
1:45 PM PST
The Sesame Street Guide to Developing Touch-Based Apps for Kids: Part 2
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In part one of this series on making touch-based apps for kids, we talked about a fascinating research project that Sesame Street’s technology development arm ...
20-Dec-2012
1:20 PM PST
The Sesame Street Guide to Developing Touch-Based Apps for Kids: Part 1
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Sesame Street, the iconic show that has made learning fun for millions of children around the world for decades, isn’t just about puppets, ABC’s, and the number of the day. The company also has a dedicated app development and technology arm that is behind some pretty amazing games and apps that ...
20-Dec-2012
9:45 AM PST
Power Benefits Using Intel Quick Sync Video H.264 Codec With Sorenson Squeeze
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Download PDF Contents Introduction Sorenson Squeeze ...
19-Dec-2012
3:17 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge – now open for entries!
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Phase 1 of the Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge is now open for entries – yes,  the one that has a total of USD $1 Million in prizes!    The Challenge will be done over two contests to give more time for learning, experimentation, better ...
19-Dec-2012
1:18 PM PST
Using SIMD Instructions in Windows* 8 Store Apps
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Download Source Code and White Paper PDF Download SIMDsampleapps source code (zipfile - 129KB) ...
18-Dec-2012
11:42 AM PST
Comparing Touch Coding Techniques - Windows 8 Desktop Touch Sample
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Download Sample Code / Article   Interaction Context Sample.zip(10.2 MB) - Sample Code  C ...
18-Dec-2012
8:23 AM PST
Predicting the Future: Five Technologies That Are Already (Kind Of) Here
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At the end of every year at IBM’s research lab, predictions about where technology might be going in the next five years are made by a select group of research and computer scientists.  We’ve seen quite a few interesting innovations this year already: Ultrabook™ touch and sensors integrated into ...
17-Dec-2012
2:35 PM PST
Adding sensor configurations to your Ultrabook and Tablet app
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Windows 8 devices are certainly showing variety today. New convertible Ultrabooks and Intel tablets have screens that fold over, slide out or detach from the keyboard.  When you build an app, and send out to the market, you don't know if the user has one of these new devices, what type and or what ...
15-Dec-2012
3:56 PM PST
MoneyBag App Puts Money Management at Your Fingertips
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For those with the Midas touch and those who are still turning things to silver or bronze, money management is the most important skill for financial well-being. Money management goes beyond balancing your bank accounts.  It involves ...
14-Dec-2012
4:13 PM PST
How to Make a Date Picker (Calendar) for C# in Windows 8
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  OK, so you are making an awesome new Windows 8* app using the C# programming language and XAML designer in Visual Studio* 2012.  You open up the designer for your XAML file and want to paste in a calendar item (DatePicker) into your app.  You peruse through the Toolbox to find that…there's ...
14-Dec-2012
9:39 AM PST
Sample Application: Intel® Smart Connect Technology Monitor
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  Abstract This sample demonstrates the concepts explained in the blog by Gael Hofemeier at http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/10/16/developing-for-intel-smart-connect-technology. ...
13-Dec-2012
6:22 PM PST
Intel Tablet: could it be the best tablet, PC, or overall experience?
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I'm on my 7th day using an Intel Tablet,  and with that I feel I have a pretty good idea of what it's good for and not, and I would like to put it in context to all the computing devices I use.  If you have followed me you know I'm not new to Windows* 8, nor am I new to tablets. To set the record ...
13-Dec-2012
4:23 PM PST
CES 2013: What Can We Look Forward To?
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The Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES, is one of the largest tech shows put on annually worldwide, and the show for 2013 is looking to be one of the biggest. Scheduled for January 8-11 and held in Las Vegas, there will be literally thousands of sponsors and exhibits, not to mention an ...
13-Dec-2012
3:06 PM PST
Sample Application: Sensor Explorer Whitepaper
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By Dale Taylor Download Article Sensor Explorer [PDF 287KB] This document explains how to access the sensor information in Win8 using the Desktop C++ interface.  Here, I’ll walk you through a fully functioning ...
13-Dec-2012
2:18 PM PST
Sample Application: Windows* 8 Store Gyroscope
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  Abstract The Gyroscope Sample of a Windows Store app shows how to register for notifications from the gyroscope sensor in the new Windows 8 environment and use the reported values to modify a 3D object on the display. An example of a Gyroscope used to rotate a 3D object based on the reported ...
13-Dec-2012
1:18 PM PST
RTFB Episode 5 with John Mechalas: Writing location aware apps for Windows 8
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Welcome to the RTFB (Reaching For Technology From Blogs) Episode 5 Blog. Guests on RTFB are given an opportunity to talk about their blogs.  For this video, I interviewed John Mechalas about writing location aware apps:   ...
12-Dec-2012
5:25 PM PST
Perceptual Computing Challenge:Do you have a million dollar idea?
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If you’re a developer looking for a task worthy of your jaw-dropping code skills, you’ll want to check out the Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge, an upcoming contest to be launched soon to encourage fantastically innovative apps that ...
12-Dec-2012
8:13 AM PST
Ultrabook Convertible Application Design Considerations
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Download Article Ultrabook Convertible Application Design Considerations (PDF 321KB) Introduction With the introduction of Windows 8* and touch-enabled computers, like Intel Ultrabook™ devices, where touch is an ...
12-Dec-2012
6:12 AM PST
From ARM NEON to Intel MMX&SSE- the automatic porting solution, tips and tricks
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I love ARM. Yes, I do. - Why do I work for Intel then? Because I love Intel even more. That's why I'd like to help independent software vendors to port their products from ARM to Intel Architecture. But if and only if they would like to do it. Why would they like it? The answer is simple. ...
10-Dec-2012
4:15 PM PST
Perceptual Challenge – take our survey and apply for a free Interactive Gesture Camera
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We’re only days away from the official launch of the Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge.   This developer contest encourages developers to create innovative applications using natural human interfaces like gestures, voice, and facial movement.    To help jumpstart your exploration and ...
10-Dec-2012
3:25 PM PST
Six App Discovery Search Platforms Worth a Second Look
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App discoverability – whereby an app that is targeted toward a specific user is able to be found by that user - is one of the biggest obstacles facing developers today. There are millions of apps out there, but app stores limit their discoverability to categories, curated top ten lists, the most ...
10-Dec-2012
9:10 AM PST
Does the target system have GPS/GNSS?
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Recently one of my colleagues interviewed me in a short video segment on the geolocation sensor in Windows 8, and one of the questions I was asked was whether ...
06-Dec-2012
2:32 AM PST
Mobility of the Ultrabook™ Meets Innovative Software Rodismusic
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Professional musician turned software developer creates software that leads to vast improvements in students
06-Dec-2012
2:28 AM PST
One Part Marketing Tool, One Part Innovation: The Beautify App from Smartience
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Intel® Software Partner Smartience Utilizes Touch and Multicore Processors to Bring Beauty to the Digital World
06-Dec-2012
2:22 AM PST
Triggerfinger Software: Replacing Keyboards with Game Controllers
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President of Triggerfinger Software Aims to Make Computers Accessible for All
05-Dec-2012
2:26 PM PST
25 Developers, 20 Days, and $60 Million: What the Top Developers Are Making
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There are literally millions of apps available from the various app stores on the market today – Apple, Google Play, the Intel AppUp® Store, Amazon, etc., with 700,000 available alone between Google Play and Apple. However, a surprisingly low ...
05-Dec-2012
10:31 AM PST
Case Study: Soma Games Develops Graphics-rich Game for Ultrabook™ in the Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge
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By Karen Marcus Download Article: Case Study: Soma Game(PDF 1.05MB) Soma Games recently created the game Wind Up Football for use with Windows 8* and Ultrabook™ systems. The ...
04-Dec-2012
3:20 PM PST
Made With Developers in Mind: The Ubuntu Ultrabook™
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This week, Dell released a new Ultrabook™ that is branded towards developers. This is part of Project Sputnik, an intriguing internal conversation that centered on creating a laptop that was better suited towards what developers are really looking for. Project Sputnik Project Sputnik evolved as an ...
03-Dec-2012
3:04 PM PST
How Do People Find Apps? Influencing Factors of App Discovery
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How did you find the last app that you downloaded onto your smartphone, tablet, or PC? Was it in an app store? Did you use a search engine? Were you intrigued by something a friend or family member said and decided to try it out for yourself? Did you see something in one of your social media ...
30-Nov-2012
11:59 AM PST
RTFB Episode 4: Ultimate Coder Challenge and Adding Sensors to Windows 8 Desktop Apps
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Bob Duffy, Community Manager for the Intel Developer Zone Ultrabook Developer Community was our guest for this episode.  We talked about two of his blogs: ...
30-Nov-2012
8:37 AM PST
Calculating a bearing between points in location-aware apps
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Earlier this week I wrote about how to calculate the distance between two points in a location-aware app. Today, I am going to discuss a related topic: how to calculate the bearing between two points. Like the shortest-distance problem, the ...
29-Nov-2012
2:38 PM PST
User Experience and Ultrabook™ App Development
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One of the most popular emerging fields today in app development is user experience (UX); basically, the study of how a user actually “feels” when using a system, app, or software.  There are several factors that go into determining user experience, including ergonomics, system performance, ...
28-Nov-2012
1:07 PM PST
Social Network Hubs for Developers: The Top Twelve Online
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Whether you’re looking for collaboration on a hot project, help for a stubborn coding issue, or merely a shoulder to cry on (metaphorically speaking, of course), you’re sure to find it online at a number of communities specifically aimed towards software developers. These hubs of developer ...
27-Nov-2012
3:09 PM PST
Sensors Deliver New Opportunities for Ultrabook™ Software Innovation
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Sensors Deliver New Opportunities for Ultrabook™ Software Innovation (PDF 607KB) The range of motion and location sensors built into Ultrabook™ devices1 gives software makers a novel basis for user ...
27-Nov-2012
2:08 PM PST
Ultrabooks™ Broaden Software Usage Models on Touch-Capable Mobile Devices
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Ultrabooks™ Broaden Software Usage Models on Touch-Capable Mobile Devices (PDF 597KB) Ultrabook™ devices combine intuitive, dynamic touch interfaces with large HD displays, enabling software makers to ...
27-Nov-2012
10:19 AM PST
The Winning Combination of Keyboard and Touch for Ultrabooks™
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The Winning Combination of Keyboard and Touch for Ultrabooks™ (PDF 902KB) Touch interfaces are one of the key factors behind the rapid rise of Ultrabook™ device adoption, which is projected to ...
26-Nov-2012
2:15 PM PST
App Show 36: Coding a High Scores Board in HTML5 for Windows 8
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In this App Show I take the full show to walk us though HTML5 code for creating a locally stored high scores leader board. I walk you thru his javascript and demos a game using the high score feature. Note: Full blog and code examples available from this blog post:  ...
26-Nov-2012
2:10 PM PST
Building and Simulating an App using the HTML5 Development Environment Beta
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The HTML5 section within the Intel Developer Zone was updated just before the US Thanksgiving Holiday to release the new Intel® HTML5 Development Environment Beta and I tried out a few of the sample apps. It took me about ...

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19-Mar-2013
4:13 PM PDT
Creating a First-Class Touch Interface for Defense Grid: The Awakening
By Ganesh Kumar (Intel)0
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower-defense style strategy game on PC and other gaming platforms. Hidden Path Entertainment*, the developer of Defense Grid, worked with Intel® Corporation to add a full touch-based interface to the game that ran well on Ultrabook™ PCs and Windows*-capable tablets . . .
19-Mar-2013
7:49 AM PDT
Connecting Software Partners and Hardware Resellers Worldwide: Intel Launches Promotion of Ultrabook™ Enabled Apps
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The arrival of the Intel® Ultrabook™ has opened up exciting opportunities for developers of applications optimized for the touch and sensor capabilities of Windows 8* Ultrabook devices. Intel is promoting additional business development opportunities for Intel® Software Partners by connecting . . .
18-Mar-2013
10:52 AM PDT
Cars, Boats and Planes: Optimizing Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for Ultrabook™ PCs with Touch and Sensors
By RICHARD H. (Intel)0
by Brad Hill and Leigh Davies. Download Article Download Cars, Boats and Planes: Optimizing Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for Ultrabook™ PCs with Touch and Sensors [PDF 1.6MB] Abstract Sonic . . .
18-Mar-2013
7:18 AM PDT
Calculating estimated call counts with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013
By Kirill Rogozhin...0
When you profile your software with VTune™ Amplifier XE you often start from looking at the top function hotspots list. This allows you to see what functions are spending CPU resources, so you can focus your optimization efforts. Function call counts can provide some additional information to . . .

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Perceptual Computing and Exergaming: It’s a Match
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted May 21st 20130
What is “exergaming”? According to Exergaming Australia, it’s a whole new way to combine fitness with technology: “Exergaming is more than a combination of just “exercise” and “games,” since such a definition would ...
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Meshcentral.com - Intel AMT hardware KVM multi-display support
By ylian-saint-hil...Posted May 20th 20130
Every few weeks, I try to add more Intel AMT support in Meshcentral.com. This time around, I added multi-display support for Intel AMT on the hardware KVM viewer. So, when you connect to Intel AMT KVM from ...
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Foliage Patch - Organizing Our Data
By Doug Mcnabb (Intel)Posted May 19th 20130
This blog post discusses how we organize our foliage data with patches. The previous blog post mentioned that we separate foliage rendering into full-3D objects near the camera, and 2D billboard proxies further away (and for small objects near the camera). This data drives our rendering of both ...
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Ten Google Search Hacks for Developers
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted May 16th 20130
The world’s most popular search engine can do a lot more than just look up the latest NFL scores or find funny pictures of cats. There’s a vast array of advanced search tricks that anyone – but especially developers – can use to dig deep into data. In this article, we’ll take a look at ten ...
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Bob Duffy (Intel)Wed, January 2nd 2013 - 12:50
Remote Debugging 5
Not sure how many found this feature in Visual Studio 2012, but it is simple and amazing and only takes a couple of minutes to setup. If you are developing on a host system that is different than you target or you want to test your app on various Win8 hardware, then this is a must. Step one: ...
Richard B.Fri, December 28th 2012 - 4:25
Richard Bahar wants to know which one is superior - ultrabook or tablet? 20
Hi friends Myself  Richard Bahar from California, I’m a software developer , I want to buy a gadget either an ultrabook or tablet , just wanted to know which one is really best because I’m confused which would be more comfortable in our work. . plz let  me know if anyone of you have used ultrabook ...
Mohamed N.Thu, December 27th 2012 - 22:32
Reg problem while executing9
Hi to all           I am developing game for ultra book windows 8, I am using directX C++ technology, I have downloaded a sample code from windows and it worked fine.  Suddenly an error occured while compiling, The error is mentioned below Output 1>------ Build started: Project: DWriteHelloWorld ...
Matthieu O.Fri, December 21st 2012 - 2:12
Unity3D 4 and Windows 8 Ultrabook6
Hi, I am currently developing a touch application that uses Unity3D. I am trying to build it for Windows 8. But there's a problem, for the moment Unity3D doesn't handle touch for Windows 8. I found this great tutorial : ...

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Ultrabooks and Software Partners

As a Software Partner you and your company are provided the resources you need to develop, optimize, and market your Ultrabook applications faster, less expensively, and more competitively.

Become a Software Partner

We provides companies and individuals working with Ultrabooks the resources to effectively develop and market commercial applications optimized for Intel® Ultrabook Technologies. 

List Your Application

Gain visibility for your Ultrabook applications and for your company with customers, Intel experts, peers, and developers in the Ultrabook business and developer communities.

Optimize Your Application

Building optimized, competitive software requires the right tools, techniques, and support. Members get access to all the resources for optimization.

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The Software Business network is an online community focused on supporting the go-to-market and business development needs of Independent Software Vendor software partners as well as individual developers writing applications on Intel platforms.

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Use the Latest Intel Technologies

Your software has the potential to exceed user expectations! From intense 3-D gaming to remote BIOS management, you can unlock the power of the platform by optimizing your applications for the latest Intel technologies. You can deliver the best application performance for your customers, create power efficient applications, or take your software to the next level by incorporating Manageability remote detect, repair, and protect capabilities.

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