The buttons will be open within normal Windows operations. But if problems with Windows 8 become serious and user unable get into the boot process to access operating system, then also, the two buttons are available in windows recovery environment.

Those Available buttons are as follows:

• Reset
• Refresh

Reset:

This button works effectively wash out the hard disk drive and reinstall Windows 8. This will destroy all user data previously stored on the hard drive, and is therefore considered a last option solution. Microsoft has also suggested this option could be used by people planning to pass their computer on to a new user, who are therefore seeking an easy way to make it “like new,” and completely from scratch.

Refresh:

This button is designed to reduce the loss of user data. It carries out a more difficult operation: copying some data to unused drive space before reinstalling Windows, then making the saved data available within the restored system. The saved user data will include Windows passwords and user accounts as well as most Windows settings, personal data, and documents. The Windows 8 equivalent to a Smartphone app store.

Second Option Allow to Boot from USB stick:

Windows 8 user will also be able to pack a USB memory stick with the Windows recovery environment (WRE), so that if the computer collapse and is not bootable from the hard disk drive, so users can  able to start their systems from the USB stick and promptly access the two new recovery buttons.

Here, both the buttons are used to reinstall the OS when system met the serious hard drive crashes.

1. Windows Defender

Windows 8

Windows Defender: 

So many years, hackers coming up with virus to attack the PC’s in different ways. For this Reason, Windows 8 includes an integrated antispyware and anti-malware package called Windows Defender. It’s designed to work in the background, keeping your system safe; but if you’d like to manually scan your system for malware or update your spyware definitions that application available through the Start menu. Windows Defender does rarely show up as an icon in the taskbar notification area. This generally happens when the tool has been unable to download new definitions, the files it uses antispyware database is up-to-date. In such a case, you can click the Windows Defender icon and start a manual download of the latest updates.

These are the steps to skip the screen:

–>Switch on the system –> press F2 or F10 according to the processor –> Goto CMOS Advanced Features –> Goto HALT –> ENTER and select NO ERRORS –>Press F10 –> Press Y and ENTER.

Your system BIOS settings has been changed and henceforth system won’t ask you to press F1.

Windows 8 Picture Password

Here is more details about Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 8 tablets :

The company is providing minimum hardware requirements for x86, x64 and ARM Processors -based tablets running the upcoming Windows 8 OS. Devices will need at least 10 GB of HD free space, a 1366 x 768 screen resolution, Bluetooth 4.0 + LTE(Long Term Evaluation – is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data Transfer), a 720p camera and more. Microsoft begins to set the foundation for tablets, defining bezel width, boot latency, required hardware buttons and required components. Also, include at least one USB 2.0 port, a magnetometer, speakers, and an accelerometer.

Hardware buttons

Windows 8 touch PCs must use digitizers supporting a minimum of five points, a requirement that is probably designed to avoid consumer confusion over multi touch machines. Microsoft is planning to support NFC (Near field communication) technology in Windows 8, and PCs that take advantage of NFC must have “touch marks” that are marked on the hardware to prevent users from having to search for the touch point. Microsoft requires that Windows 8 tablet/convertible PCs have 5 hardware buttons. Those buttons are:

• Power
• Rotation lock
• Windows Key
• Volume up
• Volume down

The Windows Key will be at least 10.5 mm in diameter and be sported in any number of shapes.

Introduction for combo  CTRL + ALT + DEL
Microsoft requires that Windows 8 PCs joined to a domain and without keyboards implement new Ctrl+Alt+Del sequence. While the on-screen keyboard remains an option for logging into a domain-joined PC, the quicker (and new) option is to press Windows Key + Power.

In this Event Microsoft again demonstrates Windows 8, Xbox 360 features and few latest Laptops

Nokia released Lumia 900 (Windows Phone OS) targeted for US people.

HTC released Titan ii (Windows Phone OS)

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Facial recognition in Apple iOS and Android Ice Cream Sandwich

There are few Rumors about Ice Cream Sandwich (latest version of Android), it is also comes with this facial recognition feature.

Now we are having three login options

1) Just normal user login same like other windows versions

2) Login by enter pin code (Four numbers) same like ATM pin code.

3) And the best one is Picture password login (it recognize gestures)

This Picture password is new way to login protection. We have to set Three gestures in settings page. After next login onward we can see picture on login screen. Once you apply gestures it will login. We can quick login using password and Pin code (other ways) we can see this option in sidebar.

Windows 8 Picture Password

Please check YouTube Video

iOS - Apple's mobile operating system

iOS 5 comes up with list of features for developers:-

1) iCloud Storage :- Now we can save our application data (files and key values) in Cloud. And it will automatically sync the changes  in all configured  devices (iPhone, iPad and Computers…..). Get more details about this here http://developer.apple.com/icloud/index.php

2) Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) :- ARC for Objective-C makes memory management job for compiler. Enabling ARC with new Apple Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compailer we will never need to type retain or release again. While  reducing crashes and memory leaks. The compiler has a complete understanding of our objects and releases eash object the instant no longer used or over. So apps run as fast as with better performance.

3) Location simulation :- Now we can test location based features in our apps without leaving Simulator. We can now select from present location and routes within the iOS 5 Simulator and pick a custom latitude and longitude with accuracy while running app.

4) Twitter Integration :- We can now take advantage of twitter integration. Now we can send a tweet from built-in apps with few lines of code (easy to tie into single sign-on service). Which includes URL shortening, attaching current location, character count and attach photos on Twitter.

5) Notification Center :-Notification Center provides nice way to display and mange app notifications without interruption our users. Notification Center in iOS 5 builds on the existing notification system, so existing local and push notufucations works fine.Now push notifications Provisioning made built in Xcode.

6) New Instruments :- Not only ARC, iOS 5 SDK includes several new instruments including time profiler with CPU strategy which gives you a new way to view time profiler data, as well as system trace, network activity and network connections instruments.

You can more details @ apple.com

We can check more input types with my previous posts listed below

HTML5 inputs and PhoneGap – iPhone and Android

HTML5 inputs and PhoneGap – iPhone and Android 2

in iOS 5, few more input types supports. Please check with below image and note.

Now iOS5, It supports

type=”date”, type=”month”, type=”datetime”, type=”datetime-local”, type=”time” and type=”range”

When add a form input tag with type=”date” attribute, <input type=”date” name=”user_date”/> it will automatically show date picker.

datetime: Defines date field (with calendar and time controls) with year, month, day, hour, minute (UTC)

datetime-local: Defines date field (with calendar and time controls) with year, month, day, hour, minute (local timezone)