These short top tips and skills for the Amazon Echo are for everyone who’s simply dotty about Alexa.
Another really rockin' reason to get an Echo Show, guys. Watch a wealth of music videos on your A-lady by saying, “Alexa, play music videos by artist/song/genre” or, if you're not sure what to watch, just say “Alexa, show me music videos,” and she'll play you the most popular ones of the moment.
Want to speak to the A-lady in both English and Spanish? No problem … er, no problemo. Or possibly English and French? Pas de problème.
A mysterious, totally hidden feature within the fantastic Puzzler skill reveals itself today with the help of Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters). Ta Tiff.
US-only alas, Thomas Domville (thomas@themickeyhouse.com) brings us a nifty demo of this new A-lady ability to have all your podcasts synched across all your Apple devices. Nice.
Two Jaws-related skills today. Why Jaws? Why not?? Hmmm. I wonder just how many Jaws 1081 podcasts all lined up in a row would be? If it helps, Jaws was 25 feet long so you do the maths.
With excellent explanations in every case, this skill serves up breathtaking celestial snaps from space or from down here on Earth, and both displays and describes them beautifully - so even on Echos without a screen, you're still well and truly in the picture.
Today we look at how you can call up web pages on your Echo Show or Spot - and with the help of VoiceView, the screen reading software for visually-impaired users like myself, we also hear what you'd otherwise see on the screen coz, y'know, this is audio.
Choo-choo!! This looks like a great skill to compliment the popular board game; Ticket to Ride Europe. Also available in a less Euro-centric flavour, both board games are available from Amazon and might be just the thing to really blow your whistle.
Despite seeming to be all about tasty spreads that younger dogs might want to put on their toast, today's skill brought to us by Thomas Domville (thomas@themickeyhouse.com) is really about fab pooch-oriented music.
This skill is a really easy way for Muslims everywhere to know exactly when and in which direction they need to pray. Simply provide your location and the A-lady will do the rest.
