Public Notices Archives

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 [...]

Using Teamviewer

23 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

As we all gear up to work from home, the application Teamviewer is going to be very helpful. It will allow us, with your permission, to access your computer remotely. In this way we will be able to repair problems or make changes that you need without any physical contact. If you purchased your computer [...]

MYOB v19 Clash with Windows 10

05 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices, Services

In another example of 'good reasons to keep your programs up to date', an old version of MYOB (v19) is now being blocked by Windows 10. Here is the message that three of our clients have received today: "This app has been blocked for your protection. For more information contact the administrator" Basically, Windows 10 has [...]

Green Mouse – Our Hours Over the Holiday Season

26 Nov 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Nearly Happy Holidays everyone. With about four weeks remaining I thought I'd let you know what our holiday hours will be this year. If you have any computer issues you would like solved before Christmas please bring them to our attention sooner rather than later, and remember that Windows 7 will become unsupported as of [...]