Amazon Echo’s newest wake word

Posted by on Jan 29, 2017 in Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo How To, Amazon Tap, Cool Stuff, Fun Stuff, Star Trek, Stupid Alexa Tricks, Stupid Echo Tricks, Wake Word, Weird Stuff | 0 comments Amazon Echo’s newest wake word on its five year mission to seek out new worlds… oh, wait… Sorry. Amazon Echo’s newest wake word is “Computer” as in… “Computer, set a course for home…” and we zoom in on Captain James Tiberius Kirk. This is more silly fun that the geniuses at Amazon have added. Give it a try: Go to your Alexa App and...
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Things That Can’t Be Done with an Amazon Echo device

Posted by on Sep 2, 2016 in Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo How To, Amazon Echo Wish List, Cool Stuff, Features, Learning, Stupid Alexa Tricks, Stupid Echo Tricks | 0 comments I ordered a buttload of toilet paper this week using my Amazon Echo (there is a special until September 9 – “Alexa, order quilted Northern toilet paper”,) but, and I know this seems crazy: There are things that can’t be done with an Amazon Echo device. Stop cursing me. Don’t kill the messenger. I’m just telling it like it is, people! My biggest disappointment is that, since they operate...
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Amazon Echo is raining cats & dog jokes

Posted by on Jul 25, 2016 in Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Skills, Fun Stuff, Stupid Alexa Tricks, Stupid Echo Tricks | 0 comments At least 3 times a day, I’ll think to myself “I want to hear a dog joke!” or “If I were single, I’d have 11 cats and I would want to know cat jokes to tell the postman when he tries to avoid me.” Dog jokes and cat jokes are great and wonderful. Once again, your Amazon Echo, Amazon Dot or Amazon Tap can do something great and wonderful: Tell you cat and dog...
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Amazon Echo Celebrity Alarm Voices & Repeating Alarms

Posted by on Apr 3, 2016 in Alarm, Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo How To, Amazon Echo Skills, Amazon Tap, Cool Stuff, Guide, Set Alarm Voice, Stupid Alexa Tricks, Stupid Echo Tricks, Video | 7 comments It’s Alarming! Instead of setting a new alarm every day, you can now set one to repeat on your Amazon Echo and then pick from some celebrity voices and have an “Amazon Echo Celebrity Alarm!” Alec (thanks for the correction!!) Baldwin, Missy Elliot, Jason Schwartzman and Dan Marino were all kind enough to donate their time and record wake up messages for free. (hahaha yeah,...
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The Gassy Amazon Echo in action

Posted by on Mar 25, 2016 in Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Skills, Amazon Tap, Ask for a fart, Cool Stuff, Fun Stuff, Stupid Alexa Tricks, Stupid Echo Tricks, Video, Weird Stuff | 0 comments Before the fun – Seriousness! When I encounter silly tech things, I always think of a friend of mine who was instrumental in making the internet ubiquitous. He pointed out the irony of the amount of work he and others did as programmers so we could watch videos of people getting kicked in the nuts and cats falling off tables. He wasn’t upset about it. Not at all. He thought it was a...
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Make your Echo pass gas

Posted by on Mar 18, 2016 in Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Skills, Amazon Tap, Ask for a fart, Fun Stuff, Stupid Alexa Tricks, Stupid Echo Tricks | 0 comments Make your Amazon Echo fart “Alexa, ask for a fart!” is my son’s favorite thing to say to the Amazon Echo. Of course, it involves having the skill switched on and, come on… why wouldn’t you want to have the farting skill turned on. Channel your inner 13 year old boy. (Or, in my case, your inner 6 year old boy.) If you’ve forgotten how to turn on skills for...
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