PC Memoirs

Nokia’s Lumia 520 is an entry-level smartphone with Windows Phone 8. It was introduced few months ago at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. This is the fifth phone of the Lumia second generation. The technical specifications of the Lumia 520 are good for a smartphone of this class. It has a 1GHz dual-core S4 processor and 512MB RAM. The display is 4-inches in size diagonally and triggers with WVGA (800 × 480) on the pixel density of 235ppi. In this article we have prepared a review of Nokia 520.

Delivery, the hardware and the first impression

The Nokia Lumia package comes with the usual accessories: a charger, a headset and a short USB cable. Then there’s the manual and the 1.430mAh strong battery. That’s about it.

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There are already some useful software programs that you can use to edit, combine or just play with your PDF files. However, I am sure that you didn’t know that you can make astonishing and compelling e-books from your PDF files.  Flip PDF will enable you to convert your PDF files into stunning ebooks with various effects and sounds. What is great about this software is that everything is simple and you don’t need to have any programming skills. You will be able to create your first beautiful page flipping eBook by following few simple instructions.

Creating page flipping eBook from your PDF is not the only feature of this great software. There are also various features that the creators of Flip PDF designed for the end user. First of all, you can create normal and mobile versions of your eBook. When converting your file, Flip PDF will keep the bookmarks and hyperlinks of your PDF file. You will also be able to search by keyword through your eBook.

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Mac OS X is regarded as an excellent computer operating system, as it is bundled with numerous features, one of which is its support for partitioning the Mac drive into a number of volumes. Well, having a number of volumes facilitates efficient data storage, which also makes searching for some particular files easily. Besides, users can install multiple operating systems in separate volumes of a solitary drive. Nevertheless, just like other computers, Macs are not too far-off from some common issues, like missing files, corrupt volume, inability to mount volume, and others. In fact, these frequently experienced issues on Macs demonstrate the fact that excellence lacks a lot to meet perfection.

In essence, users go for partitioning the hard drive space (which is available as a large block of free space) into a number of volumes in order to store various types of data separately. Unfortunately, Mac volumes are unable to shelter the data from threats like corruption. Consequently, users have to endure the loss of their precious files, which is fairly unacceptable. When it comes to finding out the causes behind Mac volume corruption, the unveiled responsible factors are frequent power failures, forced or improper system shutdown, virus or malware infections, volume header corruption, and the like. Being at the user end, one may not be able to prevent volume corruption, but he/she can certainly try fixing the issues when they come up. In this regard, user can use Mac inbuilt disk management tool – Disk Utility.

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Ever since Partition Magic was discontinued, I’ve been looking for a decent free alternative. Partition Magic used to be so powerful and easy to work with, and I thought nothing will be able to replace it – at least no other free version. However, as years go by, new companies and new products come to the market, and I think I finally found a replacement for all my Windows partition needs: EaseUS Partition Manager.

EaseUS Partition Manager will easily let you split, merge, copy, extend and restore your Windows partitions, just like Partition Magic used to do. In fact, EaseUS is more powerful and has more features: It offers support for 32 and 64 bit software and Windows versions 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 SP1/Windows 8. You can also copy entire disks for backup or disk upgrades and you won’t have to worry about data loss, as it is fully equipped to recover lost or deleted partitions. Another handy option is the ability to extend system partition to maximize computer performance.

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In the days before digitisation, businesses had a limited number of options for dealing with disaster recovery, all of which involved rectifying on-site issues and making do while repair work progressed. But today the average business will have a very low tolerance for downtime or outages of any kind, particularly if they are caused by internal systems being rendered inoperable, or the geographic location of the organisation inaccessible. Business continuity planning can consume significant resources if you intend to manage it in-house, and you will need a fairly large and experienced IT department to successfully navigate the treacherous waters of downtime towards recovery without hitting a few icebergs along the way.

Of course you could choose to look to a third party for support during disasters, as well as for the planning and preparation that will put you in a better position to recover once the worst is over.

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