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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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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.

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19-Jun-2013
2:01 AM PDT
Meshcentral.com - New Mesh Agent v1.67
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Two days ago I started updating the Windows x86 Mesh Agent with the latest v1.67 version. In this latest agent, the major change is the new use of the Windows Crypto API. In the past, I would use OpenSSL for everything across platforms. This ...
18-Jun-2013
4:37 PM PDT
The future of authentication and transactions over the web (Part 1)
0
Banks and the payment industry have realized long ago that knowledge is not enough to confirm money transactions through the web. Even apparently strong techniques such as tokens and smartcards have been facing the challenge to deal with Malware and Hacker attacks. Then, to avoid blind signing, ...
18-Jun-2013
4:37 PM PDT
The future of authentication and transactions over the web (Part 1)
0
Banks and the payment industry have realized long ago that knowledge is not enough to confirm money transactions through the web. Even apparently strong techniques such as tokens and smartcards have been facing the challenge to deal with Malware and Hacker attacks. Then, to avoid blind signing, ...
18-Jun-2013
3:22 PM PDT
Enabling Push Notifications for Windows Store Apps using C#
0
Suppose that a nurse is assisting a patient in some hospital room and that the patient’s doctor is somewhere else in the facility.  The nurse gathers vitals for the patient and enters the information into the computer.  The nurse would like for the doctor to get this information “on the fly” ...
17-Jun-2013
2:09 PM PDT
How to Keep a Windows* 8 UltraBook or Tablet Display from Turning off in C#/C++
0
Windows 8 has great power savings features that dim the monitor or turn it off completely based on whether or not the user is actively interacting with the device. This works great for most applications, but if you happen to be developing an application such as a movie player or book reader, the ...
17-Jun-2013
1:08 PM PDT
Gabe Newell of Valve on Game Development and Perceptual Computing
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Recently, Valve’s Gabe Newell (steampowered.com) sat down with the Intel video team to talk about his impressions of perceptual computing, game development, and how one technology (Miracast) is set to change the gaming user experience as we know it. ...
14-Jun-2013
2:44 PM PDT
14-Jun-2013
8:01 AM PDT
Monitoring Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions with Intel® PCM
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After applying a new technology (a new processor, a hardware accelerator, a new instruction, etc) besides measuring the immediate performance delta one requires a method to verify that this technology has been applied correctly and efficiently. Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions ( ...
14-Jun-2013
7:42 AM PDT
Masking RGB Inputs with Depth Data using the Intel® PercC SDK and OpenCV
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Introduction One of the challenges in computer vision applications is segmentation-the separation of desired objects from their surroundings. Early techniques separated objects by color or contrast. With the introduction of time of flight infrared cameras, it became possible to segment objects by ...
13-Jun-2013
10:35 PM PDT
Meshcentral.com - June 14 Server Maintenance
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Just a quick note to say that there will be server maintenance tomorrow June 14th for a while. The server room that hosts Meshcentral.com is upgrading their UPS. So, no panic you there is no ...
13-Jun-2013
12:22 PM PDT
Haswell: The Effect on Game Developers and Perceptual Computing
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The highly anticipated 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family code-named Haswell has finally made its debut. Some of the most positive attention this processor microarchitecture group is getting are from game developers, coders on the cutting-edge of development technology who are reporting ...
11-Jun-2013
4:11 PM PDT
UltraDynamo Case Study - App Innovation Contest Entertainment Category Winner
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By William Van Winkle Downloads Case Study Ultra Dynamo [PDF 662.43KB] From Top Gear to Top Winner By day, David Auld is an Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) in the oil and gas industry. But when ...
11-Jun-2013
2:30 PM PDT
Touch keyboard access for Windows* 8 desktop apps
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What do you do if your DirectX* desktop game requires keyboard input, but is running on a Windows* 8 platform without a physical keyboard? If your game runs in a window, the user can manually invoke the touch keyboard from the taskbar but that can be unintuitive, and doesn't help at all for full- ...
11-Jun-2013
10:11 AM PDT
A Windows* Store App Case Study – Recording Audio Notes and Playback for Healthcare (C#)
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I’d like to share a useful example for recording audio in a Windows Store App.  Particularly, I will present an app that targets the enterprise healthcare sector.  Audio recordings can enable doctors to “attach” speech to notes for patients.  This aides doctors in the event that if their hands are ...
10-Jun-2013
3:42 PM PDT
Perceptual Computing Support from the Intel Capital Fund
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It’s an exciting time to be a developer, especially if you’re interested in perceptual computing. At Computex last week, Intel announced that Intel Capital will be creating a $100 million Intel Capital Experiences and Perceptual Computing Fund over the next two to three years in order to support ...
10-Jun-2013
2:37 PM PDT
Applab in Minneapolis draws top developers from Healthcare, Finance, Manufacturing and other industries.....
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On May 23rd we held another Intel AppLab at the Microsoft Technology center. We had developers from top Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare, banking, materials, manufacturing and agricultural sectors. The event was held in a large classroom style facility. Presentation from local Microsoft and ...
05-Jun-2013
9:25 AM PDT
High Demand: The Occupational Outlook for Developers
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An enterprising company recently posted that they would give a whopping $30,000 bounty to anyone who could refer a software developer for hire: “Today, HubSpot, the inbound marketing software company, announced a $30,000 incentive program to ...
03-Jun-2013
10:22 PM PDT
How GRID 2 and Intel Iris™ Graphics brought me into the fold...
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If you ask me, I’m not a gamer.  I happen to work in a team at Intel that helps games run well on our platforms.  But me…I’m not a gamer.   In middle and high school I raced remote controlled cars.  You can’t easily go out and race cars after school or at night after your homework is done, so I ...
03-Jun-2013
3:47 PM PDT
Full-screen DirectX* desktop apps using the Flip Presentation Model
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I've been messing around with the new Flip Presentation Model introduced in Windows* 8 (and on Windows* 7, with the Platform Update).  I'll have another post soon explaining my ulterior ...
03-Jun-2013
9:48 AM PDT
Codemasters GRID 2* on 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors - Game development case study
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Downloads Codemasters GRID 2* on 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors - Game development case study PDF [1.34 MB] Abstract Codemasters is an award-winning game developer and publisher, with popular game brands like ...
31-May-2013
1:13 PM PDT
We Are Go for Haswell!
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You’ve been waiting for the highly anticipated 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family, and it’s finally here.  This processor microarchitecture group is the successor to Ivy Bridge, and will give users the ability to select a performance and choice of power that meets their unique ...
31-May-2013
8:41 AM PDT
Meshcentral.com - New Direct Routing
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Meshcentral.com is of course a cloud service, but it can also be run as an Intranet service. I do exactly that within Intel and so, I get a bunch of users that give me feedback about the ...
29-May-2013
2:29 PM PDT
An Introduction to the 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor
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Downloads Download the Introducing the 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor (code-named Haswell) PDF [614KB] Abstract Intel is launching the 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor, code-named ...
29-May-2013
10:35 AM PDT
Polish Your Perceptual Computing Skills: Munich Events Coming in June
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The way humans interact with computers is rapidly evolving beyond what we’ve been familiar with for the past few decades.  Traditional input devices like the mouse and keyboard are no longer the only ways to interact with software and hardware, and developers all over the world are creating new ...
28-May-2013
4:06 PM PDT
Ballastic Game Case Study - App Innovation Contest Game Winner
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By Edward Correia Downloads Ballastic Game Case Study[927 KB] Introduction In October 2012, Matthew Pilz, a programmer from rural Wisconsin, accepted a challenge. He had been lurking around the ...
24-May-2013
2:33 PM PDT
Friday Forum Focus: Windows*8 development, gesture recognition, Unity
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Once a month, we take a look at some of the most popular posts in the Ultrabook™ and Windows*8 forums here on the Intel Developer Zone, as well as notable blogs and articles.  Whether you’ve got a specific question or ...
24-May-2013
10:43 AM PDT
Coding in the Big Apple at an Intel AppLab
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 On May 10th in New York City Intel and Microsoft hosted an App Lab for local software developers working on applications for the Financial Services industry. For this event at the New York Microsoft Technology ...
23-May-2013
3:47 PM PDT
The Rise of the Independent Game Developer
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Independent developers might not have as many resources as their larger studio counterparts have to offer, but it seems that the barrier to game development at least has been made a little bit easier to jump lately. A recent announcement from Unity, one of the most popular game rendering engines ...
21-May-2013
3:17 PM PDT
Perceptual Computing and Exergaming: It’s a Match
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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 ...
20-May-2013
10:26 PM PDT
Meshcentral.com - Intel AMT hardware KVM multi-display support
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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 ...
19-May-2013
8:44 AM PDT
Foliage Patch - Organizing Our Data
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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 ...
16-May-2013
4:38 PM PDT
Ten Google Search Hacks for Developers
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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 ...
16-May-2013
1:43 PM PDT
Gain Perceptual Computing Skills, Innovate, and Win!
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PC technology is rapidly evolving beyond what we’ve known for 30 years.  The mouse and keyboard are no longer the only ways to interact with applications.  To support further advances in this exciting field, Intel has released the Perceptual ...
16-May-2013
12:26 AM PDT
Meshcentral.com - New Mesh Graph
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I am glad to annonce a new Mesh graph feature into Meshcentral.com. When you install mesh agents in computers, the agents form a mesh, discovering and monitoring each other. Well, it's not ...
14-May-2013
5:44 PM PDT
跟燕青一起学Windows8应用开发:使用WinJS在已有Namespace中添加新成员
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                在跟燕青一起学Windows8应用开发:使用WinJS自定义Javascript的名字空间一文中,笔者已经讨论了如何用Namespace解决两个技术问题: l  局部类定义全局化的问题。 l  多项目中代码名字冲突问题。 在博客后,笔者也留有一道思考题:在多次使用WinJS.Namespace.define定义相同名字的Namespace会出现什么情况?本篇博客就是讨论它的实际结果。   打开Study Metro App项目,建立MS1.js文件,并实现它的内容,如图1所示。 图1 图1的内容概要:定义一个局部变量desc, ...
14-May-2013
3:39 PM PDT
May 7th, 2013 AppLab for Windows*8 on mobile platforms
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Well, just last week I returned from one of our first Application Development Labs (AppLab) devoted to development on the Intel Platform on Windows* 8 for touch, sensor, and HTML5.  The event took place in Los Angeles (LA) California in the United States.   The presenters were drawn from Intel - ...
13-May-2013
11:25 AM PDT
Let's Render Some Foliage
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This blog series discusses some ideas and issues around rendering foliage. We provide a sample program (with source code) to demonstrate the ideas.
10-May-2013
3:22 PM PDT
Strategies for App Communication between Windows* 8 UI and Windows 8 Desktop
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Download article app-communication-ccefinal.pdf(228.17 KB) Abstract Windows 8 WinRT API allows developers to create and deploy apps quickly, and to publish those apps in the Windows Store. ...
09-May-2013
12:08 AM PDT
Meshcentral.com - Mesh Policy & Mesh Certificate
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A quick note to mention that I just updated the Mesh Connector tool to support adding and removing the mesh certificate from the mesh policy. For most people this is probably not important, but if you use Meshcentral.com for larget networks, ...
08-May-2013
4:44 PM PDT
Re-imagining Apps for Ultrabook™ (Part 5): Device Motion
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The fifth part of our Re-imagining Apps for Ultrabook™ video series is now available. In it, I’ll provide an overview of device motion and walk through a few ways we can take advantage of this set of capabilities in the desktop apps ...
08-May-2013
4:09 PM PDT
Making Touch More Realistic: Advances in Haptic Technology
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Haptic technology revolves around creating a new kind of user interface that better connects our sense of touch with the form factors we use every day: smartphones, tablets, computers, etc. We get a brief glimpse of the possibilities that haptic technology offers when our phone vibrates in our ...
08-May-2013
11:38 AM PDT
Phase 2 of the Intel® Perceptual Computing Challenge is Now Open!
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There’s nothing like a bit of friendly competition to spark developers to new heights of innovation. Beginning on May 6, coders all over the world will have the chance to forge new ground by integrating voice control, gesture control, facial recognition, and augmented reality within PC apps in ...
07-May-2013
10:17 PM PDT
Meshcentral.com - Intel AMT Remote Commands
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I am very happy to announce that Meshcentral.com now supports Intel AMT power actions directly from the web site. So, if you happen to be managing Intel AMT computers with Meshcentral.com, ...
06-May-2013
3:55 PM PDT
Touch Major Factor Driving Industry Growth: Good News for Developers
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According to a report released by NPD Display Search, the mobile PC market is on track to more than double by 2017, increasing from 367.6 million units ...
03-May-2013
1:43 PM PDT
Perceptual Computing: Apps, Hackathons, Demos, Oh My!
1
It is truly amazing what developers all over the world are managing to come up with in the field of perceptual computing. Perceptual computing is something that Intel® is putting a lot of time, energy, and resources into, as seen in the recently finished ...
02-May-2013
12:03 PM PDT
“Dead in Five Years”: The Reports of the Tablet’s Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
2
In a recent interview with at the Milken Institute Conference, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins gave his opinion of where tablets might be going in the next five years, sparking a virtual firestorm of heated discussions all over the Web: “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a ...
01-May-2013
9:50 AM PDT
The Unity Multi Touch Source (finally)
4
Hey Everybody Here is the source for the CPP and C# files needed to implement the Multi Touch Plugin DLL referred to in the previous post. Sorry it took so long to publish. Just download the zip and they're both there. I've also uploaded Touchtest.zip which is a very bad Unity app which uses the ...

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The future of authentication and transactions over the web (Part 1)
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Banks and the payment industry have realized long ago that knowledge is not enough to confirm money transactions through the web. Even apparently strong techniques such as tokens and smartcards have been facing the challenge to deal with Malware and Hacker attacks. Then, to avoid blind signing, . . .
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Meshcentral.com - New Mesh Agent v1.67
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Two days ago I started updating the Windows x86 Mesh Agent with the latest v1.67 version. In this latest agent, the major change is the new use of the Windows Crypto API. In the past, I would use OpenSSL for everything across platforms. This ...
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The future of authentication and transactions over the web (Part 1)
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Banks and the payment industry have realized long ago that knowledge is not enough to confirm money transactions through the web. Even apparently strong techniques such as tokens and smartcards have been facing the challenge to deal with Malware and Hacker attacks. Then, to avoid blind signing, ...
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Enabling Push Notifications for Windows Store Apps using C#
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Suppose that a nurse is assisting a patient in some hospital room and that the patient’s doctor is somewhere else in the facility.  The nurse gathers vitals for the patient and enters the information into the computer.  The nurse would like for the doctor to get this information “on the fly” ...
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How to Keep a Windows* 8 UltraBook or Tablet Display from Turning off in C#/C++
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Windows 8 has great power savings features that dim the monitor or turn it off completely based on whether or not the user is actively interacting with the device. This works great for most applications, but if you happen to be developing an application such as a movie player or book reader, the ...
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Lucas_TiridathSat, June 1st 2013 - 6:20
App not Compatible error0
Hi everyone. I fear I may be being incredibly dense here but I am trying to extend support for an existing app I have published through AppUp to Windows 8. I have tested the app on a Windows 8 Ultrabook and it works just fine. However the validation team have reported that they get the following ...
NeuroDigital T.Thu, May 23rd 2013 - 11:12
Problem adding a .NET Framework DLL as reference to Windows Store app3
We are building a Windows Store app (Windows 8 metro style) which searchs content in documents. We have used Lucene.NET to generate the program database. However, the Lucene.NET library is not compatible with this framework. When we add as reference with Visual Studio 2012, we get the following ...
appfluenceWed, May 8th 2013 - 16:49
Lost charger for UBIV3SRDQ, can't find compatible replacement2
Hello, sorry about bothering everyone with such a trivial issue. The charger for my developer's Ultrabook with product code UBIV3SRDQ is gone (stolen, lost, misplaced?). I've been to a couple of electronic stores and they didn't have any compatible replacement. Are there specs for this model so I ...
Sami AyariWed, April 24th 2013 - 9:37
HTML5/JS vs XAML/C#2
Hi ! I asking if if there are any advantages or disadvantages to using either XAML/C# or HTML5/JavaScript for Metro Apps. Thank you !

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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.

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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.

Get business and marketing tips from experts while connecting with other Intel Partners to develop new business opportunities. You can also unlock marketing and business resources by participating on blogs and forums.

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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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