Public Notices Archives

“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 [...]

Robocalls – The International Phone Call Scam

30 May 2018 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

I read an article in Stuff this week - New Zealanders reported losses of over 10 Million dollars to scammers last year, and that's just what was reported. It's a shame that we have to be so suspicious now, but we really do. Many of these scams are coming from overseas and there is very little that [...]

The Green Mouse Newsletter

23 May 2018 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Did you know that Green Mouse Computing has a monthly newsletter? Every month we send out an awesome newsletter via email to anyone who would like to receive it. It contains the latest scam warning, some helpful computing tips and tricks and often a great deal as well. As an example, here is an excerpt from our April [...]

Failure to Backup – A Rant by Kerrin

01 May 2018 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety, Public Notices, Services

In my opinion over 50% of small businesses in NZ would have no or inadequate backups of their important data. If I had a dollar for every time someone brought in a dead computer and had no back up I would be on a beach somewhere rather than writing this missive. When the unexpected happens a [...]

Easter Trading Hours

28 Mar 2018 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Happy Easter Everyone! Our trading hours are as follows: Closing Thursday the 29th at 5pm, re-opening Tuesday the 3rd at 8:30am. We hope you have a great break

Genuine Email from Microsoft

22 Mar 2018 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

We're all so used to getting scam emails and phone calls from nefarious individuals claiming to be from Microsoft that we're now suspicious of the real thing. And quite frankly, we're better off with our hyper-vigilance - ALWAYS BE SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE! So I now find myself advising people when an email from Microsoft is real, [...]