Developing for Intel® Smart Connect Technology (ISCT)
Intel® Smart Connect Technology (ISCT) brings Always On Always Connected (AOAC) capabilities to Intel® Architecture based Ultrabooks and laptop platforms. This technology provides a mechanism for...
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Meshcentral.com - Context menus
Just a quick note to say that I updated a few pages on Meshcentral.com to add web based context menus. On the main devices page and in the remote file management page you can now right click on a...
View ArticleWP8 – Potentially the biggest Dark Horse news out of Microsoft in a decade.
Yeah… I know the title sounds sensationalistic. However; the news that broke last week about Windows Phone 8 (aka WP8) I believe is by FAR a bigger story than what it’s being given credit for. Why? In...
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Pre-caching Offline Map Areas in Mobile Maps
Up until recently, mobile map services required the devices connect to a carrier data network or WiFi. This causes inconvenience for people use WiFi only, because in many cases people need to use the...
View ArticleSeveral Things To Know When Developing Location-Aware Metro Style Apps
You can use the Window Runtime Geolocation API in developing location-aware Metro Style apps, for example, attaching geo-location information to photos, searching for local Points of Interests,...
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Getting Started with Ultrabook Development
Whether you are interested in writing software for the Windows 8 Desktop or for Windows 8 UI there are some things that you need to know in order to get started. This blog will cover a number of...
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Multitouch Ultrabook
It is expected that by year 2022 (only 10 years from today) a PC or laptop without a touch-screen would be considered as ancient as monochrome green screens (only cool in the Matrix movie). As some of...
View ArticleOne for the Good Guys: the Stolen Cell Phones Initiative
Accomplished in what appears to be lighting speed, the FCC, CTIA (The Wireless Association®), and US wireless providers have agreed to create a database and a program to be rolled out by late 2013 that...
View ArticleDevelop location-aware, Metro style apps when your development system doesn't...
The Windows Sensor and Location platform, first introduced by Microsoft back in Windows 7, allows applications to obtain information about, and react to, the hardware's physical environment. One of the...
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Detecting Ultrabook Sensors
With the recent launch of the 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors, Intel has introduced a new breed of Ultrabook and it’s a game-changer. Ultrabooks and Convertibles based on the 3rd Generation Intel...
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Intel announced the Intel® SDK for OpenCL* Applications 2013 Beta
In preparation for the Microsoft Windows 8* launch, Intel has updated the OpenCL* toolkits for application developers –Intel® SDK for OpenCL* Applications 2013 Beta. In addition to Windows 8*, the...
View ArticleIntro to Touch on Ultrabook: Getting started
Touch screens were once an exotic way to interact with special devices, but they’re becoming an everyday part of devices and computers. In addition to phones and tablets, more laptops and convertible...
View ArticleIntro to Touch on Ultrabook: Touch Messages from the Windows 7 interface
Last time, I started looking at the road to Touch on Ultrabook. Here, we'll look at the Touch messages from the Windows 7 interface. How does Touch work on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 desktop)? Let’s look...
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Meshcentral.com - Update + IDF
Hi everybody! For the last few months I have been at work non-stop on Meshcentral.com, most of the changes are on the back-end server but I did want to post a status update on what is going on. First,...
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Using Battery Life Analyzer for Studying Application Power Consumption
In my blog about the most common pitfalls in analyzing application power consumption (http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=106174&o=a&s=lr) I talked about potential issues...
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