Category: "Android"
Upgraded to Windows 11
I finally upgraded to Windows 11 from Windows 10. Generally, no performance is downgraded, and no applications are crashed after the upgrade. The UI looks fresher. But I still feel uncomfortable having the start button and menu in the center of the task bar.
Windows 11 is released
Yesterday. Windows 11 is released. The major changes are in the UI. The star button is in the middle, that is more like to MacOS. Moreover, this version comes with Microsoft Teams. I think that is the new normal, work form home trend. Lastly, that is good for us the developers. This version store accpet the traditional windows app! The store got the new design too.
Redmi Note 10 Pro - My New Phone
In past, I loved to buy the flag ship phone. normally, I spent around $1500 for my phone. However, during these two years, maybe I am getting old. I switched my mood to get the middle to low end phone. I do not have much time to play games. I only use my phone to shoot video and taking photots. Moreover, my phone is a developer phone to test my app. Those tasks do not require a powerful CPU. Then I switched my choosen brand from Samsung to xiaomi. This company are good to build phone in the way to be very value for money. A few weeks, I dropped my old mi 9T pro phone, which I bought that for $600 two years. Then the screen is completely broken. Ok, I need to get another new phone. This times, I picked Redmi Note 10 Pro. Because I need a bigger screen which is 6.67". Moreover, it has 108M pixels camera. It sounds cool. Finally, I got this at $465, that is quite cool, considering the Australian dollar is quite weak.
I moved away from Google Photo to Synology NAS DS220j
Tomorrorw 1 June, 2021, Google Photo will end up their offer for free backup photo from the users' phone. Well, I have used Google Photo to backup for more than 4 years. Actually, I thik that is fair, in the world, there is no such things calls "Free Lunch". It gave me some monmentums to buy my own NAS to backup. After some researches and listened a number of podcasts, I believe Synology is my best option. It has Moments which is a replacement of Google Photo, moreover, it has Synology Drive which is very similar with Google Drive. You can sync your local folder with NAS. The major benefit is to have Synology, it has QuickConnect technology. It will do all sort of things such as router by pass. Thus, you can access your NAS from internet. It makes my phone can access all data in Synology Drive and photos in Moments from outside. Also, I won't need to download the data into my phone, I need to access the data I want from the app, that is very handy. Now, I don't need to keep a lot of data in my phone. At the end I bought the basic two bays version of NAS DS220j. That is because of my limited budget. If I have more money, I will buy a 3 bays version and running RAID 5, which is more effective to use the hard disk. Anyway, it is good enough. I uploaded all of photos to Moments, that is very useful, although the AI is not as good as Google Photo, I cannot do the photo search as good as Google Photo. For Synology Drive, that is exactly did what Google drive can do. Lastly, I installed USB Copy Plug-in, so it will copy the NAS data into the external hard disk as another layer of backup
Surface Pro 4 is trying to have two external monitors.
Recently, I got a request from my client. She wants her Surface Pro 4 to have two external monitors as soon as possible. The easiest solution is to get a docking station, but the dock station is not available in our local stores, around $300. It costs a fair amount of money. In the end, my solution is to use the mini-display and using USB 3.0 adapter to convert the USB 3.0 to HDMI. I found the issue because Surface PRO 4 can have two external monitors, but one of them required the duplicated screen for the surface pro. Therefore, it only supports two screens. Luckily, that is not the problem for my client. She is only two external monitors, and she did not require the main screen at the Surface Pro, which is too small for her. But that means Surface Pro 4 CPU is only supporting two screens unless you get a docking station that has its graphic card inside.