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Get Your Slow Computer Moving – Cheap SSD Upgrades

07 Feb 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Services

Is your computer slow? Speed is a major concern for many of our clients and often there is a quick and easy fix which will make a huge difference - upgrading the old mechanical hard drive to a new Solid State Drive (or SSD). We've been doing this for our clients for years and the improvement [...]

Who Wants a Free Campervan?

08 Jan 2019 Gina Whytein: Online Safety

Everyone right? And who can afford to give one away on Facebook? That's right, no one. Literally no business in the world can afford to give away something worth $100,000. Even $1600 - would you like a free iPhone X? Of course, but if you want one you'll have to buy it, because that Facebook [...]

And the Award for the Worst Password of the Year goes to…

19 Dec 2018 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety

I was robbed once, years ago. While my husband and I sat watching TV in the lounge, a very quiet gentleman snuck in through the back door, grabbed our various devices that were charging on the kitchen bench and my wallet and left the door open on his way out. Once we realised, we sat [...]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from Green Mouse

11 Dec 2018 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

Here we are again at the end of the year. I'm looking forward to a great summer break with friends and family and I hope you have something fun planned as well. As always we will have a short shut down period over the festive season so if you have any urgent computer issues please bring [...]

Vodafone Finally Disabling Web and Email Hosting

11 Dec 2018 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

I think we all knew this was coming. Vodafone made the call over a year ago now to close down their various email hosting services, (clear.net.nz, es.co.nz, ihug.co.nz, paradise.net.nz, pcconnect.co.nz, quik.co.nz, vodafone.co.nz, vodafone.net.nz, wave.co.nz) and now all Domain Name Registrations, Domain Name Hosting and Web Hosting will be unavailable from the 28th of February next [...]

Microsoft Office and The Magical Toolbar

04 Dec 2018 Gina Whytein: Tips & Tricks

Kerrin has found a great feature available with the Microsoft Office Programs (Word, Excel etc). The Blue (or green, orange or red, depending on the program) toolbar at the very top of the Window in each application is customisable; you can have all sorts of things in there. If you open one of these programs [...]

The Problems with Chrome’s Hardware Acceleration

21 Nov 2018 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Device Repair

We've had two clients recently who have experienced lag with their keyboard and mouse when using Chrome, and the internet tells me that others are experiencing pixelation when trying to watch videos due to the same thing - Chrome's Hardware Acceleration setting. The idea of this setting was that particular, usually visual processes, which would [...]

Bank Account Scam Gaining Traction

14 Nov 2018 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety

We are experiencing another round of bank account scams - people in Cambridge have lost money this week. These can operate in a number of ways. Two of the most common are: 1 - Where you have inadvertently given you banking details to a scammer 2 - Where you may be sending invoices out via email, [...]

Deadline Looming for PAYE Payday Filing

08 Nov 2018 Gina Whytein: Uncategorized

Payday filing of PAYE will become mandatory from the first of April 2019 for employers above the electronic filing threshold. This means that if you pay $50,000 or more of PAYE or ESCT per year then you must move to payday filing if you have not already done so. It used to be that employers reported [...]

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