Public Notices Archives

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 [...]

Big Changes Afoot at IRD

04 Apr 2019 Gina Whytein: Employment, Public Notices

I've been talking about Payday Filing of PAYE Employee Details for a while now, but this is just one part of a bigger package of changes that have come into effect at the start of the financial year. Another significant change is that if you are a wage or salary earner (only), you will no longer need [...]

Minimum Wage Increase and Payday Filing – less than two weeks to deadline

20 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

The end of the financial year is fast approaching. Businesses now have less than two weeks to sort out anything that needs to be done by then. Today I'm going to discuss two big changes that need to be sorted by the end of next week. Increase to the Minimum Wage The Minimum Wage will [...]

Urgent Security Warning for Chrome

11 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety, Public Notices

A serious security threat has been identified by Google which could affect users of Google Chrome. A vulnerability has been identified which could allow hackers to insert malicious code directly into your operating system - potentially allowing them to do whatever they like. The security flaw takes advantage of a particular interaction between Chrome and Windows [...]

“Your personal Google+ account is going away…”

12 Feb 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Last week Google sent out an email to everyone who uses Gmail to advise them that Google+ will be closing down. The reason for this decision is that no one is using Google+, which is the same reason that no one knows what it is, and the reason that we were collectively confused by this email. [...]

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 [...]

Christmas is Coming…

31 Oct 2018 Gina Whytein: MYOB, Public Notices, Xero

Now is the time of year for businesses to make sure that they have a clear understanding of the notoriously complex Holidays Act and how they will apply it to staff leave over the Christmas and New Year period. The Ministry of Business and Innovation has released this document and also this website summarising it, which is lucky since the document […]

How to Turn Off Sneaky Windows Ads

16 Oct 2018 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices

So you might have noticed that, like every other space in your life, your own computer has started to present you with advertising. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if some company managed to project advertising into my dreams. Happily Simon has this morning presented me with this detailed article explaining how to stop Windows from doing this [...]