Amazon Echo Listening

Posted by on Sep 19, 2016 in Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Skills, Amazon Tap, Innovation, Learning, Paranoia, Push Notifications, Weird Stuff | 0 comments If you are prone to paranoia, the idea of the Amazon Echo listening in so it’s ready to respond at the drop of an “Alexa” or “Echo”, might be disconcerting. Convenience sometimes requires privacy. One must trust that your Amazon Echo, Amazon Dot or Amazon Tap listens for the wake word “Alexa”, “Echo” or “Amazon.” and your home...
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IF THIS THEN THAT – IFTTT

Posted by on Apr 8, 2016 in Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo How To, Amazon Echo Skills, Amazon Tap, Cool Stuff, Fun Stuff, IFTTT, Innovation | 0 comments The Model T When I got online back in the stone age (1994), before cool things like IFTTT, the internet was text-based and one had to use Unix commands to do simple things like check email and search. When the World Wide Web began (different than “The Internet”) I had to get someone to help me hook up this thing I BOUGHT called a “NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR” to my Netcom account....
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