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Ideas

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Ideas Alexa Firefox

Alexa, show me the browser

A while ago I bought a Kindle Fire 8 Kids edition for my daughter and of course it had Alexa bundled in. While the Kindle Freetime didn’t really work outside of the US

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Ideas Alexa

Quindecim

Quindecim. A game idea I have for my Alexa-powered smart speakers. It’s essentially a number matching and memory game with a maximum of fifteen numbers. The aim of the game is to descramble

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Ideas Alexa

Sometimes I forget

The nice thing about having lots of smart plugs and bulbs connected to Alexa is the convenience of yelling at your devices to turn on and off. While you can schedule devices to

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Ideas Android Waze

Can you carry me back?

There are certain apps I use every day, and, not surprisingly, most of them are from google. While google has its google maps and navigation software, from my experience Waze is the better

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Ideas Alexa

Alexa and Youtube music videos

One day, maybe, far into the future, tech giants would work together to provide the best set of services for everyone. Or maybe we’ll have to hack together that future ourselves. Between Google

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Ideas Alexa

Something Something Food

Food. When you’re hungry, there’s nothing like it, but when you’re not you want to save it for later. Given how many people in the world don’t know where their next meal is

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Ideas Alexa

Read my mind Alexa

I’ve tricked out the house with Alexa compatible gadgets, a bunch of plugs, a whole set of bulbs and three echo dots in three different rooms. I was watching The First and there

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