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For years Apple’s iWork suite was something you paid for. While it wasn’t as expensive as Microsoft Office, at $80 it also wasn’t cheap enough to make it an afterthought. In 2014 Apple dropped the price to $20 per app on the Mac. That was a better deal if you only needed Pages, but it was still enough of a barrier that most people wouldn’t bother with it. Finally, in 2017, Apple dropped the price tag altogether, making the apps free for anyone who had ever bought a Mac or iOS device....

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Operation Grand Heist Season Map is out with info on all new content arriving on February 19 on PS4. Operation Grand Heist features a western theme, new modes, new weapons and a new specialist The Outrider. This new character uses a drone that tags player automatically and allow a much broader view to kill enemies. The Outrider uses a bow and explosive arrow that is uncouth enough to damage anyone in the path....

COD Mobile brings the joy of Call of Duty on the screen you carry along in your pocket. It’s quite in-depth and a large number of players enjoy sinking their teeth into the game. If you happen to own a PS4 or Xbox One controller or even third-party controllers then you have the option to connect them to your phone to play the game. This not only gives you the option to get a console-like experience but also gives you an edge over the competition....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is one of the only tactical FPS games that goes deep within customizations and improving stats of your weapons. The Gunsmithing options in the game have come a long way from only offering extended magazines all the way to scope, sensor and underbarrel preferences for your comfort playstyle. These options basically allow players to bring it down to the fundamentals and essentially build your own weapon....

For Windows 10 Threshold 2 update, Microsoft seems to be planning to allow Windows Phone users send SMS messages from the desktop. In the latest preview build of the operating system, we can see that Microsoft is adding a functionality that will let Cortana alert you if you missed any calls, which shows the company bringing the desktop and phone experience closer together. In addition, it seems that users will also be able to send SMS messages when the update rolls out to everyone....

MKVToolnix is a suite of applications to work with Matroska video and audio files. The latest version, v8.1.0, released 27 Jun 2015, comes under the most respectable name of “Psychedelic Postcard.” It includes tools to edit Matroska files, extract information from them, or package many other video formats into an Matroska container. What is Matroska? Matroska is an “extensible, open source, open standard Multimedia container. Matroska is usually found as ....

When creating a spreadsheet with Google Sheets, you may need to create one or more drop-down lists within its cells. These easy-to-navigate menus prompt a user to choose from a list of items and modify the output in other cells based on their selection. Here’s how to create and modify a drop-down menu in Google Sheets. Create a Drop-Down List on a Computer A drop-down list or other data validation method can be created and applied to one or more cells in a Sheets spreadsheet on most major desktop and laptop web browsers....

CD Projekt RED is also planning to publish free additional content or DLCs for the upcoming action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077. The developers have since confirmed this, even if no exact details were given. In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the developers at CD Projekt RED published a range of free downloadable content that included further quests, costumes, and more. This approach seems to be followed by the upcoming action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077....

In addition to Microsoft, which will release an Xbox One X in Cyberpunk 2077 design, SteelSeries will also release many headsets inspired by the game. SteelSeries announced a new collection of headsets made in the style of the Cyberpunk 2077 game. The Arctis 1 Wireless Johnny Silverhand Edition for Xbox and Arctis 1 Wireless Netrunner Edition have been launched. In addition to it, three sets of Arctis Pro headset accessories have been announced for three major corporations in Night City – Arasaka, Militech and Kang Tao....

CD Projekt RED has removed the possibility of running on the walls in Cyberpunk 2077 due to reasons related to the game’s level design. The game world of Cyberpunk 2077 seems to be incredibly vast and ready to be fully explored, and although players will have a large number of upgrades and means to move freely on the map, CD Projekt RED seems to have removed the ability to move by running on the walls due to reasons related to level design....

In Dark and Darker, you will participate in unforgiving combat, so it’s important to know how to heal. In this FPS fantasy game, you will be exploring dungeons for treasures. But they are filled with monsters, traps, and other treasure seekers like you. So even if you survive one fight, you might be forced into another just around the corner. And with the damage from the previous fight, you will barely have a chance to survive....

Unblocked websites can get beyond network restrictions imposed by your institute’s system administrator. These will allow students and employees to engage in recreational activities in school or at work. Since Discord is being heavily used by the young population these days, schools or colleges have added it to the blocked list. So, if you are wondering how to use Discord unblocked at school or work, especially while using Chromebooks, here’s how to do it....

DiskCryptor is a free whole disk encryption program for Windows. It supports encrypting internal and external drives, the system partition, and even ISO images. A handy feature in DiskCryptor lets you pause an encryption and resume it at a later time or even on a different computer. More About DiskCryptor DiskCryptor supports a wide variety of encryption schemes, operating systems, and file systems: This review is of DiskCryptor version 1.1.846.118, which was released July 09, 2014....

This article details some of the most (and least) useful 2D drawing techniques for use in 3D modeling. What to Know What to know: Background in 2D drawing isn’t necessary for 3D, but it can augment 3D skills.Focus on: Fast sketching/thumbnail iteration. Perspective. Compositing/set extension/matte painting. Composition.Don’t focus on: Sight-see drawing (drawing exactly what you see), or production-quality digital painting/2D rendering. Do I Need To Know How To Draw for 3D?...

We have completely different ways of paying for things than we did twenty years ago. While we used to use cash or check and sometimes charge for larger purchases, now people often don’t carry money, never carry a checkbook, and usually do everything with plastic or even sometimes with their smartphone. Online there are more options, and now there is an additional one being added to the mix. Along with using a credit card, you can also use a system such as Paypal or Apple Pay....

For those of you who deal in two or more languages, you will know the following situation only too well. You want to translate a word from your native language into one of the other languages that you speak (or vice versa). So with a sigh (because it’s SO much effort!), you open up a new browser tab and navigate to Google Translate. Now doing that once is fine, but what if you have to constantly go back and forth to Google Translate all day long?...

People with low-performance computers complain about how slow they are after using them for a few days. This happens because the computer is using up all of its RAM in programs. Your hard drive, however, can also participate by adding to your RAM pool with its page file. If you increase the size of your page file, you have more memory to work with. But is this a good idea? It’s free, but it could cost you in some ways....

The latest game to be a victim of an early leak is Nioh 2, the game has been developed for quite some time and it’s alpha test got underway yesterday, but almost 4-hour footage of the game has been leaked on YouTube. Though we didn’t get to check every minute of the action, whatever little we saw seemed impressive and the game at times evokes memories of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice....

You have likely heard the oft-repeated claim that a “picture is worth a thousand words” many times before, yet with the majority of photos now being taken digitally, they hold more information than just their contents. A photo’s EXIF data can identify a great deal about it, including the date and time of capture and the device used to take the photo in the first place. Not everyone wants this kind of information stored in their pictures, but it isn’t easy to see how this can be changed....

Do-Not-Track is a feature that is gaining popularity among web browsers software, e.g., Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and now Google Chrome, starting version 23. This feature is related to privacy and it allows people to decide whether they want to be tracked online by web servers. If enabled, it’ll mean that you won’t be tracked anymore by, for example, advertisers, that is of course if the third-party entity complies with the request sent by the web browser....