Public Notices Archives

How to Watch the Rugby World Cup

20 Aug 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

The Rugby World Cup starts next month. It will run from the 20th of September to the final on the 2nd of November. There are two main ways to watch it and how you do it will depend on how far down this rabbit hole you want to go: Spark If you intend to watch [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]