Public Notices Archives

Dropbox is Not a Backup Solution

28 Jul 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Devices, Public Notices, Tips & Tricks

Kerrin has asked me to discuss Dropbox because he has heard quite a few people suggest that they don't need a backup system because they're using Dropbox, or that they're using Dropbox as their backup system. So today I'm going to discuss why this is a very bad idea. Dropbox is syncing software. It's purpose is to [...]

New Outlook Feature – Roaming Signatures

26 Jun 2020 Gina Whytein: Devices, New Technology, Public Notices, Tips & Tricks

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The New Edge

09 Jun 2020 Gina Whytein: Devices, New Technology, Public Notices, Tips & Tricks

If anyone out there is using Microsoft Edge for their internet browser you may have noticed that it has undergone a re-brand. The logo now looks like this: If you have it you'll know about this already though because it wasn't quiet about it - it activated a pop-up which cannot be easily exited from without clicking on [...]

Scam Posing as Covid-19 Report

27 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

Microsoft has released a warning about a new scam playing on the huge public interest in the Covid-19 pandemic. The emails purport to contain a Covid-19 report from the World Health Organisation, and have Excel links to what they claim are statistics but are really a backdoor to opening NetSupport Manager, which is a remote [...]

Totally Locally – Cambridge Directory

12 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce has built an excellent online business directory for Cambridge to encourage us all to support local businesses. Check it out here. These businesses are those which are 'offering virtual services' during Alert Levels 3 and 2. The idea is to help kick-start the local economic recovery and maintain our precious small [...]

Alert Level 2

12 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

I think we were all fairly relieved yesterday to hear that the move to Alert Level 2 has been approved and scheduled by the Government. For anyone who missed that, the plan is that we will officially move to Level 2 at midnight on Wednesday, so from Thursday we can go out in public, go [...]

ANZAC Day Employment Requirements and Entitlements

16 Apr 2020 Gina Whytein: Employment, Public Notices

With Anzac day (25 April) falling on a Saturday this year, many employers are grappling with the question of who to pay what to for the holidays over this time. The simple answer to that question is: What day(s) does the employee normally work? If they normally work on a Saturday then that is their public holiday day. If they don’t [...]

Keeping your Website…and other important stuff

15 Apr 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Now that we're over halfway through the (best case) lockdown period I thought it might be timely to remind business owners especially about making sure that you renew your domain name for your website if it comes up for renewal. You need to renew this in advance because if it expires then your website name [...]

Restarting Your Computer as a Solution

31 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices, Uncategorized

Like me, you may have been operating on the previously very good advice that regularly turning your computer off properly would be sufficient for updates and the general health of your computer. Unfortunately Windows 10 has a feature called Fast Startup which is going to require that we change our behaviour again (or disable it). [...]

Green Mouse is an Essential Service

26 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Device Repair, Public Notices, Services

Happy first day of lock down everyone :) We hope you're all well. No doubt many of you (like us) are now working from home, or at least trying to set yourself up to do so. We've had confirmation from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment that we are an Essential Service, due to [...]