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The NUC Mini PC – The Next Unit of Computing

15 Aug 2019 Gina Whytein: New Technology

How big is your PC? I'm talking about the tower, the box that sits under your desk or on it, taking up your work-space. Imagine if it was the size of a couple of sandwiches instead (yes that piece of paper in the above photo is A4). The NUC is 11.68cm x 11.17cm and only [...]

Cambridge Neighbourhood Support

07 Aug 2019 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

I received an email from Cambridge Neighbourhood Support this week, which you can follow on Facebook. It hadn't really occurred to me before but of course this is another resource for local news and assistance relating to scam activity as well. The email detailed a particular scam that has been reported locally to the Cambridge Police. [...]

Convincing IRD Scam

24 Jul 2019 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

There is a sophisticated scam doing the rounds at the moment - an email purporting to be from the IRD, offering refunds. It looks all very official, you can check out what the scam email looks like in this article in Stuff. And it's almost perfectly timed to coincide with the real tax refunds that [...]

Microsoft Accounts – Work vs Personal

17 Jul 2019 Gina Whytein: Tips & Tricks

Our Senior Technician, Simon, has sent me this article: Understanding Microsoft Work and Personal Accounts. It's a confusing topic, exacerbated by a failure to clearly label and differentiate between these different account types. If you need to use the standard Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel etc) both at home and at work, which many people do, then you will [...]

Green Mouse Gold Card Discount

19 Jun 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

Here at Green Mouse Computing we support our community by providing a 20% Discount on Labour for Gold Card Holders* If you have a Gold Card please let us know and we will be happy to apply a 20% discount to the labour portion of your invoice. In fact there are many businesses which provide [...]

The Bluekeep Vulnerability – A Serious Threat

10 Jun 2019 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

The Bluekeep Vulnerability is a serious gap in security for Users of XP, Windows 7, and the corresponding Servers 2003 and 2008. It's serious because it could be used to spread viruses without any help from Users - if your computer or server is not patched and is attacked via this route there is nothing [...]

Email Scam: Your computer, email and smartphone are hacked

29 May 2019 Gina Whytein: Online Safety

I've been getting a fun little scam email over the last few days. In fact scams seem to be a bit of a theme for today. I had a Roboscam call to my mobile, which is unusual. Though the most unusual part about it was that it was in Japanese, so I can't explain what [...]

Free Windows 10 Upgrade Assessment

16 May 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety, Public Notices, Services, Specials

Special Offer for June Support for Windows 7 is coming to an end at the start of 2020 so anyone still using it now has about six months left to move to Windows 10. So for the month of June, we would like to offer individuals in Cambridge a free home visit (approx 15 [...]

Windows Update Conflict with Avast, Avira, Sophos

17 Apr 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices, Services

Following some recent Windows updates, some Users have complained that they are experiencing problems such as freezing on start up. This has been attributed to a conflict with some anti-virus programs including Avast, Avira and Sophos. It's a particular issue, apparently, for computers which are still on Windows 7. The three companies which provide the [...]

Working (or Not) Over Easter

11 Apr 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

No doubt most of you would have realised by now that taking three days of annual leave over Easter this year will result in a full ten-day holiday because of how Easter and ANZAC day fall this year (the days are the 23rd, the 24th and the 26th of April). I know of one Cambridge [...]

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