Top tips for improving your relationship with technology in 2021 Break your social media habits, reduce your screen time, stop oversharing and be kind
Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 05:20 Updated: Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 11:39
New year, new you – or so it goes every year. This year, why not make some tech resolutions worth sticking to for 2021?
Declutter
If you have old technology lying around, gather it up. Functional technology can find a new home but even your broken items have value. Old mobile phones, tablets, laptops and cables can be recycled, with the various components split apart and put through the recycling process. In fact, a report published earlier this year showed our tendency to hoard old tech gadgets could lead to a shortage in the raw materials needed for batteries.
Dublin s Q102 By Dan Pitcher
Consumers are being warned additional taxes and charges now apply when buying online from the UK.
Parcel Motel and Parcel Wizard have already scrapped their virtual address services due to Brexit.
There s a 3.50 customs charge for An Post customers who use the AddressPal service.
They re being asked to register an address with their account to pay it.
BBC News
By John Campbell
Published
image copyrightGetty/ktsimage
image captionThe issue is that, from January, commercial goods entering NI from GB will need a customs declaration
Some online retailers are suspending delivery to Northern Ireland.
The move is to give them time to adapt their systems to the new Irish Sea border, which begins operating in January.
Zalando, a clothes retailer, stopped delivering on Friday. It said this was in preparation for new requirements from our carrier partner in the region.
Fashion brand Hugo Boss said delivery to NI would be temporarily unavailable
It said this was due to system upgrades and there would be no deliveries from 23 December until 7 February.
DPD Ireland and Parcel Motel suspend deliveries from the UK
Two of Ireland’s most popular companies to deliver packages from the UK say there are suspending their services at the end of the year due to Brexit.
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Two of Ireland’s most popular companies to deliver packages from the UK say there are suspending their services at the end of the year due to Brexit.
BBC News
By John Campbell
Published
image copyrightGetty/ktsimage
image captionThe issue is that, from January, commercial goods entering NI from GB will need a customs declaration
Some online retailers are suspending delivery to Northern Ireland.
The move is to give them time to adapt their systems to the new Irish Sea border, which begins operating in January.
Zalando, a clothes retailer, stopped delivering on Friday. It said this was in preparation for new requirements from our carrier partner in the region.
Fashion brand Hugo Boss said delivery to NI would be temporarily unavailable
It said this was due to system upgrades and there would be no deliveries from 23 December until 7 February.