Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

If stopping smoking is one of your new year resolutions, then today's two skills might help provide the support you need to make this a very successful, smokeless start to a superb year 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Happy 2021!! To get the new year off to a great start, @TheBlurredNerd brings us some much-needed new year improvements to the space between our ears. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Today we look at a whole raft of rather useful skills that could help make our fresh start to 2021 so much better … and in so many ways. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

And yet another one by @VocalaCo today. Can you guess a series of celebs from their varied voices alone? I can't obvs. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Which came first, Donald Trump or fake tan? Also by @VocalaCo, this is a super-simple trivia game where you have to say which of two things are the oldest - with a chance to guess the actual year if you get it right. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an officia...

Covered over 700 episodes ago, the fabulous Shaun Preece (@TheBlurredNerd on Twittr) revisits another @LabworksIO skill that's out of this world. Joke: What do you do if you see a spaceman? Park in it, man! (That works better when it's not written down.) Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please c...

Yet another one by @VocalaCo, this is the super-simple, shout-out-the-link trivia game. Alexa gives you four questions (plus a clue if you need it) and you have to work out what links them all together. Really good fun. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an offi...

It's beginning to look a lot like Santa Banter - but now with less snow and more celebs. Brought to us by the great guys @VocalaCo, It's the ridiculous rhyming game with the weird name … and the answer is something like; ‘Tom Cruise has a bruise!’ Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider...

During this wonderful festive season, have you ever been tempted to bump off those gathered around you one by one. Covered over 700 episodes ago, my co-host on The Echo Show @The BlurredNerd brings us a choose your own adventure skill that serves up that very scenario - but with a secret agent twist. Merry Christmas everybody!! Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍...

By those brilliant guys @VocalaCo, can you guess the answers that all contain thoroughly festive rhyming words? Play 10 questions for free then choose to unlock the Santa Banter Question Stocking to get 50 extra questions. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an o...

First covered over 500 episodes ago, good friend of the show and co-host on that other Echo podcast you all know @TheBlurredNerd, brings us a skill that brings us one voice to guess each day. Bring it on. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot...

First we look at a skill to tell you which streaming services have the film or TV series you'd like to watch, and then we ask the A-lady, what's on TV, what's on BBC1 now, what movies are on TV tonight, what comedies are on Dave tomorrow? You get the picture. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - ple...

First covered over 600 episodes ago, Shaun Preece (@TheBlurredNerd on the Twitters) and good friend in podcasting crime, shows us just how easy it is to get into a real pickle after the work Christmas party. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to...

From Voice Skills Inc (@VoiceSkillsInc on the Twitters), this straightforward skill simply gives you a nice, full-screen image each day that gradually fades away… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Coverd nearly 500 episodes ago, the A-lady recommended this one so I gave it another spin and, by gum, this game's a good one (actually, several games in one). Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

We've covered a skill called 'Tibetan Singing Bowls' over 900 episodes ago, but today we continue the meditation theme with a similar skill that'll leave a ringing in your ears for years and years. I strangely enjoyed recording this one… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so...

Boy do I love this skill - and the guy doing it too. It's my co-host on The Echo Show @TheBlurredNerd and he's puzzling out what's probably the best word quiz around. Nice. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

This is a simple skill that seems to be the last thing you'd want to listen to when trying to meditate, but maybe that's just me. One thing's for sure, it's 'in tents' 😃 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

By those fab guys at Labworks.io (@LabworksIO on the Twitters) and first covered over 500 episodes ago, today's skill is a fun way to finesse your fake news detect-ometer. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Covered nearly 400 episodes ago, today's skill will almost certainly help save Christmas as we know it - so long as we all make sure we play it every day for the next twelve days without fail. Are you ready to help save Christmas? Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and bec...

Shaun's back! @TheBlurredNerd brings us a brilliant demo of a so-so skill to save notes for all the family. Oh how we wish we had the Notes feature that's already built into the A-lady for you lucky guys over the pond… Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an offic...

In case you weren't aware of just how much accessibility Amazon has packed into their devices, today we talk about the new A-lady Accessibility Hub: 'Make more possible with Alexa. Alexa’s accessibility features are helping people be more connected, more entertained, and more independent.' The new Amazon Accessibility Hub: http://amazon.co.uk/alexaaccessibility Here's a video of lil' old me Amazon...

Covered over 600 episodes ago, today's fab offering falls somewhere between a cooking and a workout skill. Strange but true. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Get your Echo to suggest gifts for teens, foodies, fitness freaks, nerds - or whomever are the particular/peculiar persons in your life. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

First covered over 500 episodes ago, friend of the show and my co-host on 'The Echo Show', Shaun Preece (@TheBlurredNerd on the Twitters) goes hunting for monsters. Ooer! 😱 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟