Are you an enthusiastic XBOX player?

Rumors have it that the Xbox Live Gold and the Xbox Game Pass are now officially merging together and transforming into a single subscription.

You can now have a single $15 a month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription plan which will include all PC games and Xbox games alike.

However, what you may fail to realize is that you can upgrade your subscription up to three years of Xbox Live gold subscription plan for $1.

Here’s what Microsoft has announced on its official announcement page,

New members and existing Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for Console members can join or upgrade today and get their first month for just $1. Additionally, if you’re a current Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass member, and have prepaid months on your account, you’ll get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate credit for those months when you upgrade.

Source: news.xbox.com

According to Microsoft’s FAQ,

“As an Insider benefit, when you join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to give feedback, we will apply any prepaid time you have on Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass or both toward Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, up to a maximum of 36-months.”

Source: news.xbox.com

It is a dream come true for all those who have the Xbox Live Gold subscription. If you have an existing Gold subscription on the Xbox Live, you can easily convert that into a Game Pass Ultimate when you apply for the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1-month for $1 deal on the Microsoft account.

The Benefits of Getting an Xbox Ultimate Pass

Here’s what you are going to get when you will activate your Xbox Ultimate Pass.

• You will get instant access to a 100 games on Xbox one.
• The PC version of the Game Pass which is in the beta.
• Access any title of the Xbox Game on the day of its release.
• Access to Gold titles on Xbox which means more free games.
• Complete online multiplayer support for Xbox Players.

How to Avail this Amazing Deal!

This online method of securing a deal was first identified Slickdeals thread.

Since the time, the trick has been revealed people have started using this deal and as a result, and many of them have easily landed with 404 errors.

So if you are all up for doing this practice until you get it right, here it is:

• Start at your main Microsoft account page.
• Go to the “services and subscriptions” tab at the top of the page — this will show what you currently subscribed to (or not).
• Before applying the 1-month-for-$1 deal to your account, extend your Xbox Live Gold subscription by buying additional months. 
• You can get 12 months of Live Gold for $60, although there are a few Live Gold deals out there that can bring the cost down to less than $50 for 12 months (CD Keys, Rakuten and Costco). Some people also have Microsoft Rewards they can convert into months of Live Gold. (Get separate 6- or 12-month codes, but opt for the latter where possible.)
• You’ll want to get to as close to June 17, 2022, as your Xbox Live Gold expiration date to maximize the deal.
• So, yes: You’ve now spent as much as $180 for 3 years of Xbox Live Gold ($60 x 3). But, you would’ve presumably spent that anyway. 
• You can get an extra month of Xbox Live Gold when you turn on auto-renew (recurring billing) when adding months to your account. You should be given the option after inputting a purchased digital code for 12 months of Gold, for example.
• In your account settings, check when your Xbox Live Gold subscription is due to expire. Again, that’s under the “Services and Subscriptions” tab.   
• Once you’ve confirmed you’ve extended your Xbox Live Gold subscription to the desired amount, click on the link for the 1-month-for-$1 for Game Pass Ultimate deal.
• Once that deal is applied to your account, your Xbox Live Gold subscription will be converted to Game Pass Ultimate — and Game Pass Ultimate should be available for the length of your Live Gold subscription. You won’t have to pay anything for up to 36 months.
• After whatever date your Game Pass Ultimate is listed to expire, you’ll have to pay $14.99 a month to continue it.
• You can opt not to auto-renew your Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
• If you opt not to continue Game Pass Ultimate, you could go back to subscribing to only Xbox Live Gold. 

This solution was initially presented by the official CNET network.

Even though, you may have spent a total of $180 and a buck up for this deal. However, based on the Xbox Live Gold costing almost $5 a month you can use the game pass ultimate which costs about $15. You can save up to $360.

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The Pokemon company has created some of the most amazing marvels in the land of anime; Venusaur, Charizard, Pikachu, Arbok, Nidoqueen, Meowth and Sandslash to name a few.

Above all, Pokemon comes with a sacred motto, “Gotta Catch Em All!” 

Keeping this particular motto in mind, the Pokemon company earlier released a mixed reality game known as the Pokemon Go. The game enabled players to walk around the city and catch their favorite Pokemon characters in different locations. The game created quite a buzz all around the world.

Now, the CEO of the Pokemon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara has introduced a fairly new concept.

Imagine if your sleep time can turn into a complete entertainment?

Announcement 3⃣

What if you could continue training your Pokémon…even in your sleep? 💤

In 2016, Pokémon GO turned the simple act of walking into entertainment, making the entire world into a game. We’re about to do it again, Trainers—this time, for sleeping.

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 29, 2019

How Will the New Pokemon Sleep App Work?

As the app’s official description states,

“Pokemon Sleep aims to turn sleeping into entertainment by having a player’s time spent sleeping, and the time they wake up, effect the gameplay,”

The new app is currently in its development phase. Little is known about the app, but from what we have heard, the app will track the player’s sleeping pattern and then use that collected information to deliver a remarkable gameplay experience to its users. It will collect data based on how long the user slept, and at what time they will wake up to play the game. Then, Pokemon Sleep will adjust the gameplay accordingly to deliver just the right gaming experience that a user was seeking.

Right after Nintendo observed an amazing success of its Pokemon Go app in the year 2016, Tsunekazu came forward with the idea of capitalizing its budget towards improving the gaming experience for its users. At one of the Tokyo conferences, he revealed that the app will focus on improving an individual’s sleep cycle and then enable them to lead a healthier lifestyle then they are already living.

“Fun Fact: Do you know that there are 340 million units of various Pokemon games sold since 1996?”

In conjunction with the Pokemon Sleep app, a new device called the Pokemon Go Plus Plus will also get launched. This peripheral device will track and monitor your sleep patterns and is set to release in 2020. 

Can’t wait for this next year #Pokémon #pokemongo #PokemonPressConference #PokemonGOPlusPlus pic.twitter.com/aEJJzEaI8x

— Daniel (@danielyt_) May 29, 2019

It is just a matter of time until the game launches. Pokémon fans are incredibly fascinated and are dearly waiting for the massive launch. With the New Pokemon Sleep app, they will be able to train their Pokemon even when they are fast asleep.

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Extracting and saving images from the web is generally a piece of cake. All you have to do is right click and choose ‘Save as.’. But have you ever tried to save or download an image from Google Docs? It’s a whole different story. It is downright exasperating to say the least. There is no apparent way to select and download a few images directly from a docs document. Fortunately, we have worked around this drawback. Here are 5 simple ways to download images from any Google Doc.  

1. Publish to the Web, then Save Images One-by-One

If you only want to extract a few images, this method is your best bet:

• Open your document in Google Docs, click on File > Publish to the web found on the top left corner.

• Click on the blue Publish button. Does your doc incoprorate confidential data or private information. Remember to stop publishing once you have got your images.

• A pop-up window appears. Click OK to continue.

• See the link that appears? Copy and paste it into a new tab on your web browser. Hit the Return or the Enter key to load the page.

• A web page will appear with the content of your doc. Locate the images that you want, right click on each, click on “Save Image As…” Specify the destination where you wish to save those images.

• Voila. You have got your images, but the work isn’t finished yet. Go back to your Google Docs document, again click on File > Publish to the web, see the “Stop publishing” button under Published content & settings”? Click on it and check OK on the pop-up, to stop publishing your doc. 

2. Save The Images to Google Keep

This option is by far the least hassle-some. Google Keep is a note taking app that has recently been integrated with Google Docs. This comes down to the fact that you can save docs document images directly to the sidebar, from where they can be downloaded and saved directly without any frills. Here’s how you can save an image to Keeps:

• Right-click on any image that you want to download in a Docs document, and click on the “Save to Keeps” option.

• Your picture is saved to the sidebar, as shown in the screenshot below.

• To save the image, simply right click on the image from Keep sidebar, and click on “Save as”, specify a destination for the image, press the save button, and you have successfully downloaded the image.

3. Use A Snipping Tool

You must be familiar with the Snipping tool if you use Windows, or maybe you know Grab if you have a Mac. Both let you select a portion of your screen and capture it. This can help you take a snapshot of the image you want to download and save it as a copy.

• Open the Google Doc from where you want to download the image. Also make sure the image is in the center of the screen for best capture.

• Fire up the snipping tool.
• Select New and outline the image with your mouse cursor. This tool lets you capture the snapshot of your selected image.

• Click on File>Save as, specify the destination where you wish to save the file, give it a meaningful name, and click on Save.

While this is a relatively easy way to download an image, the images need to be manipulated to resemble the original sometimes. So, we can’t really say we are downloading here, we are just making a copy. However, this method is one of the easiest and fastest, and if you only occasionally need to download images from Google Docs, why bother grappling with Doc add-ons to extract images from Google Docs, when you have such a great trick up your sleeve.

4. Extract Pictures from Documents With Add-Ons

If you frequently need to download images from Google Docs, install an add-on that extracts pictures from Docs. Image extractor is a great add-on you can use. Install this add-on to begin.

• Once downloaded and installed, fire up the document from where you wish to extract images. To start, click on Add-ons > Image Extractor > Start to open the sidebar.
• Select the image you wish to download from the doc.
• The Image Extractor add-on pops-up in your browser’s right sidebar. Choose the image you want to save, select it and click the “Download Image” button. The image will be downloaded to your browser’s download folder. Voila! Easy as a breeze.

5. Download as Office Word, then Reuse the Images

You can use this method whenever you want to reuse the images that you have downloaded from Google Doc in Microsoft Office Word. Here’s how to do it:

• Select File > Download as > Microsoft Word (.docx). This converts your Google Doc to a word format. The word Doc will retain all your content and formatting, including the images.

• Fire up the exported Word document and then cut, copy, or save the images as you want.

A month ago, the Honor 20 series was launched. Currently, Honor 20 is only available in China, but sales are good. Huawei has confirmed that more than 1 million Honor 20s have been sold in just 14 days. Surprisingly, Honor 20 reached 1 million in a very short time.

The sub-brand also reported that sales of Honor 20 Pro will begin tomorrow.

Honor 20 days to reach 1 million in 14 days

The upcoming Honor 20 Pro will have 8 GB of RAM and two storage options – 128 GB or 256 GB. The prices for the two models are RMB 3,199 (€412/$460) and RMB3,499 (€450/$505).