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Dell Inspiron 14z 5423 Ultrabook is more than merely a usual laptop. It’s an Ultrabook that is super powerful and having superb looks.  At 21mm thin, this device boots up in seconds and features longer battery life. The device comes loaded with in-built DVD drive that makes it a fully-featured gadget. Characterizing super-slim profile, this gizmo is easy to carry and takes less space on your lap or desk. It’s simply perfect to keep you connected wherever you are, whether it’s a coffee shop, library, office or a friend’s house.

This device, undoubtedly, allows you to enjoy your movies and music on the go. Feast your eyes on its 14inch HD display that serves out enchanting images with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Dunk yourself in full entertainment with AMD Radeon HD 7570M 1GB graphics.

With this, you can now enjoy more comprehensive and breathtaking photos and videos, faultless video streaming and graphics-concentrated PC gaming. Enjoy your favorite songs with their powerful speaker that gives super crisp audio. Stay socially connected with your near and dear ones from virtually anywhere with its HD webcam that ensures sound video chat with built-in digital microphone.

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Our computers have become electronic repositories of all our most important data. We store important documents on our PCS, precious photos and videos, presentations for work, and much, much more. If your hard drive were to crash right now — right while you are reading this article — would you be able to recover all the data that is on your computer?

If you aren’t backing up your data, unfortunately, the answer is likely “no”. Even the most talented techies can’t retrieve data from a hard drive that is completely fried. The only way to ensure that your data is safe is to back it up — regularly and through multiple channels. Here are some of the best backup solutions for your data:

Transfer to an External Hard Drive

An external hard drive can hold as much data as is on your desk top — maybe even more. You’ll have to set up the transfer manually, and it could take a long time, depending on how much data you are transferring. However, this method will ensure that you always have your data available — whether your hard drive crashes or whether you are just traveling or are away from your PC.

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When you work in a Windows environment having a Windows PC at your desk, you need to take account of several things, such as hard drive defragmentation, installing firewall or antivirus software, and much more. However, as opposed to Windows users, Mac users need not dive deeper into such things, as Mac does a fair bit of maintenance task itself to provide a simple computing experience to its users. The built-in maintenance routines of Mac take control of disk optimization, reducing performance overheads and ensuring a smooth operation of the system.

Disk Optimization

Disk Optimization refers to the process of rearranging physical locations of files stored on your hard drive in order to achieve better data access times and in turn, reduce the physical movement of the hard drive’s head. File system fragmentation is the major problem that contributes to Mac slowdown. A file system is inclined to become fragmented over time as the data is saved or deleted on the hard drive. Large files are broken into small pieces that are allocated different memory locations on the hard drive. The amount of fragmentation increases as you make changes to these files or save new data. Disk optimization is performed by grouping these fragments together and allocating them contiguous memory locations on the hard drive.

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Technology today has made it possible to share so much with family and friends on the other side of the world. YouTube and other social media networks are brilliant because they allow you to share everything quickly and easily, this includes favourite photos, images and videos you may have taken of a special event.

However, you may have lots of memories which are stored on video tapes which these days are usually left on a shelf. This could be a recording of a really special event like a wedding or a memorable 21^st birthday party. The question is how to get your VHS videos onto your PC so that you can store these memories safely and share them if and when you want to with close family and friends.

How Old Is Your PC?

If your PC is pretty old it might not be able to handle videos because they take up a massive amount of memory. With this said, if you own a new computer there is normally loads of space on the hard drive which means handling videos is not a problem. If you are unsure, it’s best to seek advice from the experts before you even begin.

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AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro edition is a powerful and easy to use partition manager. It contains more than 30 powerful functions, which can manage your hard disks and their partitions. With its friendly interface, AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro functions can be easily found and used.  PC Memoirs is proud to announce that AOMEI has offered 10 lucky readers a copy of the software for free! All you have to do is leave a comment in the comment box below. First 10 commenters will receive a licence code via email!

Here are the features of the software:

Partition Management

1. Increase or decrease the size of any partition

• Accurately extend or shrink the original partition size.
• Keep the original data on partitions safe during the whole operation.
• Support move partition during resizing partition.
• Supported file systems include: FAT32, NTFS.
• Support partition alignment automatically for SSD

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