Successfully denying access to a program for Youtube

It seems more and more games are using Youtube as a method to try to show game play videos and allow players to earn fame by posting their videos to Youtube. Sometimes these sites and programs require special access to Youtube in order to properly post videos and manage them. I have often seen people receiving errors while trying to unlink their Youtube account from these sites/programs and vice versa. Many times users try to sever this link using the sites/programs but the change is never reflected on Youtubes site. So I have decided to provide you guys with a way to sever the access of the site from the Youtube side.

Here are those instructions:
1. Log into Youtube.com

2. Left click on your username in the upper right corner

3. Left click "Settings"

4. Left click "Manage Account" from the menu on the left

5. Left click on "here" ("here" is the actual link) in the "Authorized Sites" section

6. Left click [ Revoke Access] to the right of the bullet-point where “callofduty.com – YouTube” is

Petition: Why should XBox360 be so special?

As I am sure many of you know the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Elite service has recently released its first DLC pack. Though to many peoples disappointment it was only released for the XBox360 Elite members. Why might this be you ask? Well it seems as if Activision and Infiinity Ward signed a special agreement with Microsoft. Some of you XBox users might be saying that you pay extra for the Live service annually. My response to that is too bad. Choose your console choose your fate. There should be no reason why one console should get the DLC content before the other especially when people are paying an extra fifty dollars to get the monthly DLC. Not to mention this DLC pack was promised to everyone in January and XBox got the content within a week of February. Now don't get me wrong I am not trying to bash  XBox users. I love the console and think it is great. Though like I said you made certain choices when you purchased the console. More specifically you chose to pay in order to play online. There is no reason why PS3 users should have to take the fall for Microsofts follies especially when you paid the extra money to get it earlier. I have also recently heard some rumors floating around that non-elite XBox members may be able to get the DLC before Elite PS3 members. So what I am asking the gaming community to do today is voice their opinion on this matter by signing this petition by leaving a comment with your gamertag and how you feel about this. Let's try to prevent this from happening to future Call of Duty content and more importantly to keep this from happening within other games.

Ports for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Alright I know a couple weeks ago I posted some ports for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Recently I stumbled upon people having issues with Star Wars: The Old Republic and I wanted to post the ports for the game so that everyone has access to them.

Ports for Star Wars: the Old Republic:

PC
Ports: 8995,12000-12999,20000-30000

Also I would like to go ahead and list this port checking tool all courtesy of PortForward.com PORT CHECKER.

PC and Laptop Optimization tips

Working with Computers through out most of my career as well as performing a lot of IT functions I started to realize that a lot of people have issues either optimizing their computer or maintaining the current level that their computer is at. So what I am going to do is list some tips to get better performance out of your computer. These are suggestions and depending on your case these may or may not work.

- First off if you purchased your computer through a retailer or a online store then there is going to be a lot of useless programs and services on your computer. So what the first thing your going to do is clear all of those programs off of there unless it is used to control something like a DVD player or a webcam. These useless programs duplicate most existent ways to do things in Windows such as updates and change functions/options. This will then clean up a lot of what is running in the background and free up some RAM/Hard drive space

- The second thing you are going to probably want to do is get yourself a simple and easy to use Anti-Virus software for your computer. Personally I use the free version of Avast! It is a quick download, with a simple setup and is easy to maintain. I set my basic scans for daily and the advanced/longer scans for once a month. As well if it finds a infected file then it will quarantine it to the sandbox so you can still access it without risk.

- The next thing i would do for optimization should only be done if you know what you are doing. This and everything else is DO AT YOUR OWN RISK. So what I do to all my computer after I complete these first two steps is go to Run > type MSCONFIG and this will allow you to select what programs and services will boot up with your computer. This will allow your computer to start up more quickly and efficently thus helping free more of your RAM up.

- This next step will depend on the last time you have done this if you have done it at all that is. So what you are going to want to do next is do a disk defrag. This is something you may want to do often such as once a month or leave more time and do it once a year. This really depends how often information is be written and removed from your hard disk. What this should do is re arrange all the file fragments in such a way where it is easier and faster for the hard drive to access.

- As a helpful hint many people may want to look into is investing in an external hard drive. This allows you to save the file from your computer to this device putting all your information into a portable content. This also allows you to not use hard drive space maintaining speed and efficency.

- The last thing I normally do is go through my computer immediately after doing the previous steps and doing all necessary updates. The major programs you will normally will want to update is Adobe Flash, Shockwave, Reader and AIR. As well as your Java client. All of these programs play into a large portion of your web browsing abilities. It allows for more access to media and webpages. The other program you will want to update is the Operating System. There could be many updates but after taking these steps it should take less than an hour for these updates on most computers.

Basically this is more or less a guide on optimization and increasing the performance of the computer you are using to get better results. As with everything else on this site these are things that you do at your own risk. You should know what you are doing or have the proper people around during this to ensure no important settings or files are tampered with. If you have any suggestions or any thing you would like added to this blog please feel free to leave a comment.

Ports for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Alright so I know not too long back I posted about port forwarding and I got a lot of response to it about what the ports were for CoD:MW3. It seems that there are a lot of network issues with the game at the moment.
For PS3:
81, 3074, 3075, 3478, 3479(UDP) Voice:3658
80, 443, 3074, 5223 (TCP).

For XBox360:
3074 (UDP/TCP).

Additionally Xbox Live requires ports 80, 53 (TCP) and 88, 53 (UDP).

For PC:
MW3
UDP:1500, 3005, 3101, 28960
TCP: 27015 (SRCDS Rcon port)

STEAM
UDP: 27000-27015, 27015-27030
TCP: 27014-27050

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Checking to see if an issue is due to the console or a game update.

Ever get those glitches where no matter what you do they just won't go away no matter what you do. Then your so aggravated you can't figure out what to do. This technique is relatively simple and easy to do. First what you are going to want to do is delete your game cache if your on XBox360 by going to settings > storage and then highlight the hard drive and the message press Y to clear game cache. If your using the PS3 what your going to want to do is go to the Game section on the XMB then scroll up to where it says Game Utility Data. This area stores the updates and installed data from the game your saved games are located in another menu section labelled Saved Game Data. What your going to want to do is Delete all the data for that game in that Game Utility Data using the triangle button. After you do this step on your consoles your going to want to make sure you are disconnected from the wireless completely or pull the network cable out. This is going to ensure that your system won't download and install the updates for the game. Your game will start up using the initial launch version. At this point go ahead and see if you experience the same issue. If you don't have the same issue the issue was an issue with the corrupt data saved on the console. If after this you re-connect your console to your network re-download the patch and experience the same issue than the issue is with the patch. Now if when the game starts up using the initial launch version and you still are having the issue then there could be a defect with the disc or it could be an issue that hasn't been patched yet. At that point the only thing you can do is alert technical support of the issue so that they can attempt to create a patch. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please feel free to leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

HELP WANTED: Looking for Writers and Web Designers

We are currently looking to expand and therefore we are looking for more people. We are only looking on filling two positions at the moment one for a writer and the other is for a Web designing position.
For the writing position I am not looking for anything crazy. I just would like to have someone help me manage some of the articles so that we can possibly write more. The right person needs to be tech savvy. Some one who is a quicker learner is a bonus as well. I would appreciate at least one sample on a relevant topic.
For the web designing position what I am mainly looking for is someone moderately skilled in HTML and would be willing to educate himself further. We are looking to try and currently get a site going at the moment as well as possibly forums but this is all TBD and I am looking to get some prototypes going. Creativity is a plus as well as having a sample piece. For more information please leave a comment with your e-mail and which position you would like to fill