My New Lockdown Gadget - Chromecast
Although we are getting our live back to normal, but that is still a new normal. I am still not able to go my church in person, due with the government COVID regularations. And I think that has to been like this, protecting everyone. Thus, every sunday, I need to watch a youtube livestream of my church. That is too bad, I got 16 years ago TV. It cannot use YouTube. At the end, I bought a Chromecast from JB Hifi for $59. That is a very reasonable price to make my TV to watch YouTube. Moreover, I can cast 7Plus or ABC iView to my TV, so I can watch the news anytime in my TV. So, that is a very useful tool for me under the "New Normal"
Android Auto Error 16 - Communication Error
I don't know why my Xiaomi mi 9t pro cannot connect to my car recently, and I got Error 16 - Communication Error in android auto. I got a big red screen in the android auto app. Initially, I thought that is the problem of my COVIDSafe app because it runs in the background. Then I tried to uninstall that to see whether the problem is solved. That is not nothings changed. So, I re-installed the COVIDSafe App. Finally, I remember I enabled the Dual Apps feature in MIUI so that I can have two IG apps opened at the same time. So, I went to settings->Dual App to delete the dual feature, and then android auto is working again!
Became Cashless
Contracting the surface which has the droplets from those people got coronavirus, that is possible to get the virus. Thus, stop the virus spreading, in Australia, a lot of shops are prefer to use Contactless payment. As a result, Contactless payment became the mainstream payment now. I think I only used cash only once per week during the six weeks. So, I do not need to get the money from ATM for weeks. I feel Australia became cashless. I like electronic payments. Firstly, I can track my expenses quickly, and I need to get the records from my bank. Moreover, I prefer to bring a card rather than a pocket of coins. Lastly, cards are cleaner than coins and notes.
Free Email Forwarding Service
If you bought a domain and you do not want to buy a web host for doing your email service or you are doing a service which is only providing website hosting wihout email service such as shopify, then the simplest solution is email forwarding service. Recently, I found a free one ImprovMX. They are free to up 5 domain and 10 alias. You only need to point MX record to their server and put TXT record with a random string to verify the ownership of the domain name. That is very easy to use!
Microsoft Teams got a customize background
I have used Microsoft teams got about two years. It can blur my background. That is very good. Their rival, Zoom, can change the background into your own image. That sounds much better. That is very useful, even the background is blurred, but the teammates still can see my room is quite messy. That is better to be completely changed to another image.
But today, I used Teams as my daily routine. It got a new feature. I can change my background now. However, I still cannot find a way to use my image as the background. You can choose from their preset collections of the photo. Well, there are a lot of choices, such as Mindcraft, Office Room, Space station, etc.
In the end, I love this new feature!