The next Call of Duty game is well into its development cycle and is expected to hit stores later this year, according to Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. The game is being developed by COD veteran Treyarch, who was behind the best-selling titles in the franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2.

India’s leading ticketing portal BookMyShow received an update that makes it easier for you to find the movie you’re looking for. Version 2.0.7.2 comes wtih fixes to the location service, which allows you to search for cinemas near your location. The update also brings more detailed movie information, bug fixes, and resolves issues with the payment gateway.

Last weekend a customer asked me for help installing software on his new Mac. When I told him he’d have to buy it, he responded, “You’re techies. Can’t you just do what my friends do and bootleg it?”

I told him if he asked me that again I’d tell him to leave the store.

I take software piracy very seriously. And so should you.

Software piracy isn’t a joke. It’s a plague against the people in this industry who try very hard, under very difficult circumstances, to make a living by developing useful, fun software for people.

It’s easy to convince yourself that your desire to use software is more important than the developer’s need to get paid for their efforts. It’s simple to give yourself a justification: I’m just a poor college student; I’m between paychecks; I’ll pay for all of it when I’m better off. And it’s also simple to look at big companies like Adobe, Apple, or Microsoft and say, “They’re making plenty of money already. They don’t need more from me.” Or even “I’m sticking it to the man!”

The problem is that justification makes it that much easier to avoid paying for software from a smaller vendor — maybe a hobbyist who’s trying to turn development into a career, or a small developer that lives release to release.

Software piracy may be worse on Android and Windows platforms than it is on the Mac or iOS, but it still is a huge problem. There are no shortage of web sites, torrent sites and other places where someone motivated can download cracked copies of any Mac software apps or games they might need. Apple’s tried its best to limit the issue on iOS, but people who jailbreak their devices can do it more easily. Last year there was even a ‘Wirelurker’ malware outbreak involving the Mac — primarily limited to China — that preyed upon jailbroken iOS device users who were pirating software.

I hear a common justification that software piracy isn’t the same as stealing, because there has been no theft of physical goods. That’s merely a pretense, a weak justification for shitty behavior. It may not be the exact same as stealing a car, but you’re still getting something of value without paying for it.

In recent years the entire industry has had to pivot from a pay model to a service model, where consumers get software up front for free but in order to use it, or to use it fully, they need to pay a monthly or annual fee. Adobe with Creative Cloud and Microsoft with Office 365 are practical examples. But this isn’t limited to large developers. With in-app purchases in the App Store, for example, small developers have found ways to keep on charging customers for content or for service after the initial download.

Our insatiable appetite for “free” has made many of us pennywise but pound foolish; we’re only too happy to download a free app even if it means we’ll end up paying for it over and over again later.

That’s not to say that the software industry has accelerated towards pay-to-play or software as a service only because of piracy, but for many developers, it’s an important motivation.

I don’t pretend to think that software piracy is an issue that we can solve simply by shaming people into doing the right thing. The problem has been around almost as long as software has been around, and will continue to plague us in the future.

I’m just asking for you to think before you take something that you haven’t paid for, and consider the ramifications if the developer behind that product isn’t able to continue selling and supporting it. Most of us, left to our own devices, will do the right thing.

Some more screenshots have leaked online, claiming to reveal features of Windows 10 for the phone. While the Technical Preview of Windows 10 for phones isn’t far off, it’s always fun to look at what could be in store for those of us who will willingly update our mobile devices to Microsoft’s preview builds.

iCloud Drive lets you store all your files up on Apple’s servers and sync them across all your devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac. While you can let iCloud create files for you and drop files where it thinks they belong, you can also create your own folders and move any of your files into them. All you need is a Mac.

How to manually create folders and move files to iCloud Drive in OS X Yosemite

1. Launch the Finder.
2. Click on iCloud Drive off in the left hand navigation.
3. Create a folder just like you would in any other place on your Mac.
4. Drag and drop files or create new ones just like you would anywhere else.
5. You’ll see iCloud start copying the files over to iCloud Drive where they’ll then be accessible on any device in any app or program that can open them.

A four-part series on Mobile Nations

Welcome to Smartphone Futurology. In this series of science-filled articles, Mobile Nations guest contributor Shen Ye walks through current technologies in use within our phones, as well as the cutting-edge stuff still being developed in the lab. There’s quite a bit of science ahead, as a lot of the future discussions are based on scientific papers with a vast amount of technical jargon, but we’ve tried to keep things as plain and simple as possible. So if you want to dive deeper into just how the guts of your phone function, this is the series for you.

Click past the break to view all four parts…

Cycloramic is a relatively new Windows Phone app that isn’t a stranger to smartphone photography. The app has had a modest amount of success over on iOS and was released to the Windows Phone Store back in mid-December.

The first release version was noticeably buggy and often failed to work on certain Lumia Windows Phone models. An update was released last week that hopes to fix these compatibility issues. We also saw the app go from a free app to a paid app with the update. With the fixes in place, we decided to take a closer look at this new Windows Phone photography app.

One of OS X Yosemite’s new Continuity features is the ability to accept (and make) phone calls when your iPhone is nearby. Call Relay is an incredibly useful feature, but when all of your devices ring with the same ringtone, it can get distracting. Here’s how to give your Mac a distinct ringtone.

When it’s activated, Call Relay makes your Mac an extension of your iPhone. You can take and make calls using the FaceTime application on your Mac, saving you from having to dive for your phone every time it rings.

By default, the Mac uses the “Opening” ringtone whenever you get an incoming call. But you can change that, just like you can change the ringtone on your phone.

To change the Mac’s ringtone

1. Click the Finder icon in the Dock.
2. Open the Applications folder.
3. Double-click on the FaceTime application.
4. Click on the FaceTime menu.
5. Select Preferences… (or alternately type command ,).
6. Click on the Ringtone menu.
7. Select a ringtone you’d prefer to use. Each one you select will play so you can hear it.
8. Close Preferences when you’re done.

That’s about all there is to it. You can choose from over four dozen different distinct ringtones.

Have any trouble? Let me know.

Telltale Games has released the second episode of its Game of Thrones adventure game series. It’s titled “The Lost Lords” and can be downloaded as an in-app purchase for $4.99 from within the Game of Thrones app for the iPhone and iPad, and can also be downloaded for the Mac if you have bought a Season Pass for the game.

Here’s a summary of The Lost Lords:

House Forrester is in disarray. Their liege lord and his heir are dead, and Ironrath is occupied by Whitehill soldiers. The survival of the family depends upon those who are left. Placed at King’s Landing, the epicenter of intrigue, Mira Forrester must weigh her loyalty to Margaery Tyrell against the needs of her family, while choosing how to play the political games of Tyrion Lannister. One misstep could spell doom for Mira and her entire family. To the far north, Gared Tuttle finds that the wall and its crows hold little love for a squire from the Wolfswood, but finds kinship in the bastard son of Ned Stark. Gared must prove worthy of becoming a ranger in order to carry out the mission given him; one that is vital to the future of those he serves. To the east, Asher Forrester, the exiled son, is called back to Westeros to aid his family, but how can one man help when the Boltons rule the north with an iron fist? Meanwhile, an unexpected source of hope returns to the Forresters, but Ironrath is no place for the weak.

The game should serve as a nice way to past the time before Season 5 of the HBO Game of Thrones TV series kicks off in April.

• $4.99 – Download now for iPhone and iPad
• $24.99 – Telltale Store for Mac
• $29.99 – Steam for Mac

Once you’ve set up your payments in Google Play, buying apps, games and music can be a breeze, but what happens when you want to use something else to pay for an app? Maybe you’re saving your Google Play credit up for a movie. Maybe you don’t want your partner to get upset when they see your bill covered with Google Play purchases. Maybe your debit card is almost overdrawn and you need to switch over to something else until payday. Whatever the case may be, you need to change what — or who — is billed for your latest in-app purchase spree. And the best part?

You don’t even have to leave your app to do it.