Installing Windows 8.1 using your Windows 8.0 key is not as easy as it should be, Microsoft first want you to install Windows 8.0, then upgrade to 8.1 using the Windows Store, then after that install Windows 8.1 Update 1 and any Windows Updates released after that. That is a lot of wasted time both downloading and installing updates, even more so if you have a slow internet connection. However you can simply install Windows 8.1 with update 1 using your Windows 8 key. This doesn’t matter if the key is a retail key, upgrade key or OEM key this method will work perfectly fine with Windows 8 Core or Pro Editions. How to install Windows 8.1 as a clean install, without installing Windows 8.0 first. First you need a clean, untouched Windows 8.1 Update 1 ISO, if you have a Technet or MDSN subscription you can simply download the ISO’s from there like I have. If you don’t i have included the file name and SHA1 of the ISO below, along with a magenet link. To download the magnet link in uTorrent simply go File > Add Torrent From URL and copy and paste the magnet link in. Typing the SHA1 Windows…

The Nvidia ION chipset was used in affordable Intel Atom based Nettop PC’s released in 2009 onwards. Although not very powerful compared to PC’s of the time Nvidia ION based Nettop PC’s such as the Acer Revo R3600 series and the AsRock ION 330 where very popular for playing HD video. Using XBMC 720p and 1080p HD video decoding could be offloaded from the Intel Atom processor to the Nvidia ION GPU, allowing 1080p High Definition video to played back with ease on a very low powered device. If you want to install a more modern version of Windows on an Intel Atom / Nvidia ION based desktop that is perfectly possible. Windows 8 works perfectly, as does the Windows 10 preview. Windows Update contains all the drives you require to get the system running with the exception of the Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver. Thankfully though the Windows 7 Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver still works perfectly on Windows 8 and 10, and can be installed without installing any other older drivers. Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 / 10 Download: Download Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 and 10 32bit Download Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 and 10…

“SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate” is an error message Wordpress kept presenting to me when i was trying to integrate my Instagram / Twitter feed in to this blog. The good news is the fix is really easy, once you know how! Basically the problem was a PHP configuration issue on my server, i needed to have a list of up to date public Certificate Authorities defined in my php.ini file. I found a list of public Certificate Authorities that were extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file, these are used in the FireFox webbrowser. This list contained the certificates in PEM format, therefore could be directly used with curl / libcurl / php_curl, or with an Apache+mod_ssl webserver for SSL client authentication. How to fix the unable to get local issuer certificate problem: Downloaded the cacert.pem (mirror) which has been extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file Opened your PHP.ini file, the location of this will vary depending on your configuration. Then added the following line: curl.cainfo=C:\inetpub\cacert.pem Remember to change C:\inetpub\ to the path of your cacert.pem file. As my webserver is IIS i placed the cacert.pem in C:\inetpub so IIS had access to it. After the PHP configuration has been updated re-start your webserver, you should…

This tutorial will teach you how to update listings with variations on Ebay, using Ebay File Exchange. This task will be completed with one simple upload to Ebay File Exchange. If you have been re stocking your item quantity or revising prices manually, this is guaranteed to save you a lot of time. If you have found this tutorial and are new to Ebay File Exchange have a look at my previous tutorial which covers What is Ebay File Exchange Creating a template for Ebay File Exchange uploads Revising the price and quantity of multiple single item listings Uploading to Ebay File Exchange Read: How To Update Product Quantities and Prices Using Ebay File Exchange How to update listings with variations using Ebay File Exchange Presuming you have followed my previous tutorial linked to above it is actually quite easy to advance your Ebay spreadsheet to update the quantity and prices of listing which have variations, and even multiple variations. First i will show you how to update an item with a single variation, for example multiple colour choices, then after that i will show you how to update an item with multiple variations, for example colour and size variations. Updating…

The Problem with adverts on Google search results I’m someone who uses Google Adsense on a website I own, the adverts cover the server and software costs of running the website, leaving me a bit of extra cash for myself, which i usually spend on things to create more content / reviews for the website i have. With that in mind i generally don’t mind seeing the odd advert here and there, as long as the website is not covered with them. However on to what this blog post is about… What i do think is really concerning is that if you Google some free software, for example Adobe Reader, the advert above the first result always appears to be an advert for a malicious download of that application. When installed this malicious download will install loads of ad-ware, spyware  and other malicious software you really don’t want on your computer. Below is a screenshot of the search results on Google UK when “adobe reader” has been searched for. If you look at the URL for that advert below its clearly not an official link from Adobe. However companies appear to be using Google Adwords to trick people in to downloading their…