These short top tips and skills for the Amazon Echo are for everyone who’s simply dotty about Alexa.
Yikes! Ashley Colburn (ashleycolburn2018@gmail.com) pulls no punches with today's hard-hitting interactive adventure game set in a warzone. If you're after a soothing, positive distraction from our current situation, then this one might not be it.
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You can now personalise your wallpaper on your Echo Show with photos from your entire photo collection (or selected albums) and/or from your Facebook account.
Firstly, to allow your Show to access your photos go to the Alexa app, go to the menu and select Settings > Photos and then choose to allow access to your phone's photos and/or log in to your Facebook account.
Secondly, on your Echo Show, go to Settings > Home and Clock > Clock > Personal photos to set your background. In there you'll have the choice of your personal photos to use as your Echo's rotating wallpaper and/or photos from Facebook. Select to use all your photos or just selected albums, and from Facebook choose either only your friend's personal profile pictures and/or photos from your timeline.
Phew! That's it 👍
And we round off with a quick reminder that you can get daily Dot To Dot goodness (or, more accurately, variable goodness) via your flash briefing.
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VoiceBrew's Tip Of The Day flash briefing gives you one awesome thing to try with Alexa every day, delivered in a minute or less. Available in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and India skillstores - more info for the UK version (to pick one at random) at https://amzn.to/3499MGX. Want more VoiceBrew goodness? You can also subscribe to their daily newsletter via http://voicebrew.com.
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Today a new contributer, Will Lomas (@WLomas on the Twitters), brings back a clasic maths challenge skill, first covered over 800 episodes ago. How far can you go on three lives alone? BTW did you know that some Greek cats have 0 lives? It's true. No wait - some Greek cats have olives. That's right.
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Forget all those feeble skills that provide you with a mere 20 second timer! Today's goes a full 50% better and will have you happily scrubbing for a whole half minute. Then we follow up with some sage suggestions for staving off the dreaded cabin fever.
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Three more great free audio books available this month - plus, in the US, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' on your Echo read by Stephen Fry. Everyone else can read it at the new Harry Potter at Home hub at https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home.
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Today's a real mish-mash of tips and updates; including asking the A-lady what's new that she can do, a reminder about calling phones from your Echo, notetaking and calendar searches (and their lamentably limited availability in many localities) and changing the A-lady wake-word.
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This is instantly and by far my favourite subtle ambient relaxing audio skill. A must for soothing and focusing our troubled thoughts, I think.
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(Try desperately to) keep the kids happy with today's selection of games and activities. It's worth a go…
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Today, Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters) is back - this time bringing us some solid book suggestion potential to help make our self-imposed stay at home more enjoyable.
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