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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.

24-Jan-2013
5:11 PM PST
Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Use the Face Analysis Module
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Use the Face Analysis Module
24-Jan-2013
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Capture Raw Image
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - How to Capture Raw Image
24-Jan-2013
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - My First C++ Application
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Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK - My First C++ Application
23-Jan-2013
11:47 AM PST
Apps for Kids: Basic Usability Guidelines
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More kids than ever before in history are engaging with computing devices on a daily basis, whether that may be that a smartphone, a tablet, a PC, or a convertible tablet/PC form factor. They do homework, interact with friends and family, and play games, and as seen by a simple search in any ...
22-Jan-2013
11:03 PM PST
For Software Developers: Start 2013 Strong By Protecting Digital Data from Cyber Threats
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A surf shop in California loses 10 years of customer data because their computer systems weren’t secured. This data was encrypted with ransomware, a form of malware that allows the cybercriminal to hold it for ransom. The surf shop ...
22-Jan-2013
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Handling touch input in Windows* 8 Applications
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Download Article Download Handling touch input in Windows* 8 Applications [PDF 745KB] With the growing number of devices supporting touch, handling the touch interaction method in your applications ...
22-Jan-2013
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Neat HTML5 features: Offline Web Applications
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Since I work quite a bit with HTML5 I decided to write about it whenever I discover a feature that I think is quite neat. So this blog post is about “Offline Web Applications”. This is based on the functionality described here: ...
21-Jan-2013
11:57 AM PST
Legalizing App Privacy: What Developers Should Know
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App privacy is becoming more of a public issue, which means it’s also starting to become an issue for our elected officials. This past week, U.S. Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia has drafted a bill aimed at trying to give users more control over their app data. A discussion draft has been ...
18-Jan-2013
9:16 AM PST
User Privacy: Seven Ways App Developers Can Protect It
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With the unprecedented growth of the app ecosystem, user privacy is becoming more and more of a hot button issue, especially when that privacy is violated. For many users, finding and downloading a new app is something that has become almost second-nature; we browse our favorite app stores, we ...
17-Jan-2013
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Facebook Graph Search: What It Means for Developers
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This week, Facebook rolled out Graph Search, a new feature within the social networking site that will enable users to make new kinds of content connections based on information they’ve already input into the site as a whole ...
15-Jan-2013
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Women in Tech: Issues and Inspiration for Female Coders
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It’s a fact that can’t be denied: there are, quite simply, far fewer women in technology-related fields then there are men. STEM-focused fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) have been typically underrepresented by the fairer sex for decades, and the gap looks to be growing: “ ...
14-Jan-2013
9:05 AM PST
Porting iOS* Custom Charts and Graphs to Windows* 8 UI
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Overview This article takes a look at the various ways custom graphs and charts are used in iOS* to create rich enterprise healthcare applications and how these same custom graphics can be created in an equivalent Windows* 8 Store app experience. An example written in C# and XAML will be used to ...
14-Jan-2013
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Software Occlusion Culling
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Download Article Download Software Occlusion Culling [PDF 1.1MB] Abstract This article details an algorithm and associated sample code for software occlusion culling which is available for download. The technique divides scene objects ...
11-Jan-2013
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Porting the User Interface from an iOS* Basic App to Windows* 8
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Download Article Download Porting the User Interface from an iOS* Basic App to Windows* 8 [PDF 620KB] Table of Contents 1. Introduction. 2 2. Basic UI Navigation and Layout 2 2.1 Navigation Hierarchy. 2 2.1.1 ...
11-Jan-2013
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Porting Advanced User Interfaces From iOS* To Windows 8*
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Download Article Download Porting Advanced User Interfaces From iOS* To Windows 8* [PDF 620KB] Abstract This article discusses porting advanced user interface features from an iOS app to a Windows Store app. ...
11-Jan-2013
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Porting App Life Cycle, Settings, and Search Features from iOS* to Windows* 8
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Objective Most mobile apps, regardless of the platform, have features like search, app settings, complex app life cycle, and state maintenance in them. In this article we will cover how to port these features from existing iOS apps, to the Windows* 8 platform. We will compare and contrast how ...
11-Jan-2013
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Porting iOS* Apps to Windows* 8 - Overview
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Download Article Download Porting iOS* Apps to Windows* 8 - Overview [PDF 841KB] Objective Developers looking to port their existing iOS* apps to the new Windows* 8 platform face several challenges. In this ...
11-Jan-2013
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See How Software Partners are Innovating on Ultrabook™ Devices
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Wondering how Intel® Developer Zone members are innovating on Ultrabook™ devices? Wonder no more!  We just launched a new ...
11-Jan-2013
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CES 2013: A Week in Retrospective
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What an amazing week it’s been for Intel at CES 2013 in Las Vegas! From an Ultrabook™ tree (yes, you read that right) to new smartphone announcements to tablet innovations, there’s certainly been a lot going on. In this article, we’re going to take a quick retrospective look at just a few of the ...
10-Jan-2013
9:51 AM PST
Handling Windows 8 Auto-rotate feature in your application
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There is an interesting new feature that has been introduced in Windows 8. This new feature allows the desktop to rotate as you rotate your tablet and/or Ultrabook with sensors.  I recently ran into an interesting situation with a popular game that we were recently working on so I thought I would ...
09-Jan-2013
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Deforming Terrain Through Touch
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Download Article Download Deforming Terrain Through Touch [PDF 888KB] Introduction Dynamically deformable terrain has long been a desired feature of game developers. Ultrabook™ devices and Windows 8* tablets open new ...
09-Jan-2013
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Work Mode, Play Mode: An Ultrabook™ Convertible Experience
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If you’re looking for a device that integrates the computing power of an Ultrabook™ but offers the mobility of a tablet, then you’ll want to check out one of the new Ultrabook convertible devices.  One such device is the Dell XPS 12 Ultrabook™ Convertible, a solid machine that gives users the ...
07-Jan-2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Power Analysis Guide for Windows*
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26-Dec-2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:   ...

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18-Mar-2013
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Cars, Boats and Planes: Optimizing Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for Ultrabook™ PCs with Touch and Sensors
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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
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Calculating estimated call counts with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013
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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 . . .
15-Mar-2013
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Making the Call Stack Pane Work for You
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VTune™ Amplifier XE Call Stack Pane The call stack pane is displayed in viewpoints of analysis types that include stack data. It is displayed on the right side of the viewpoint (highlighted below in a gold box). The call stack pane identifies the calling sequences to the selected function, in . . .
15-Mar-2013
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Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector Guides
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This is currently a placeholder for Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector usage guides.  Until articles are added, please visit the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector product page.  You can also view the . . .

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The Unity Multi Touch Source (finally)
By steve-hughes (Intel)Posted May 1st 20132
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 ...
The Gender App: What’s the Difference?
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted April 30th 20130
Men and women tend to use technology in similar, yet intrinsically different, ways. From app downloads to mobile shopping habits to marketed hardware, there are gender differences in how we respond to perceived uses of technology. While it’s certainly appropriate to track unbiased measurements of ...
The Code Project's App Innovation Contest: Developers Creating Ultrabook Apps
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted April 26th 20130
There’s something about developers and contests; dangle a competition in front of a coder and more likely than not, they’ll push other projects aside in order to jump in feet-first. Is it purely for the love of the game? Or is that most developers have just a wee bit of a competitive streak? ...
Everything for the Ultrabook™ developer
By Mike Pearce (Intel)Posted April 26th 20130
So one of the first questions raised by application developers, is typically how can I get started with app development on Ultrabook™ - well here are some excellent pointers. Some months ago CodeProject, instigated an AppInnovation Contest ...

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ParagDaveThu, January 17th 2013 - 6:30
Getting message to Upgrade Win8 version5
Hi I am getting message, "This licance for evolution version is expired . Need to install latest". Does Intel provides their SDPs latest version of Win 8? Or do any one know any smarter way (Without buying licance) to do that? Thank you Dave
Adam HillMon, January 14th 2013 - 16:34
Ultrabook touch screen input not detected after reinstalling Win81
Hi, I was a developer in the recent Intel AppUp App Innovation contest, and received an Ultrabook as part of the competition. I recently purchased Windows 8 for it as I didn't have an MSDN account. Upon reinstalling Windows 8 the device no longer responds to touch input, which was working fine ...
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 ...

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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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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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Monetize Via AppUp

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