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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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, 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

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/alexaaccessibilityHere's a video of lil' old me Amazon used to promote the Accessibility Hub: https://twitter.com/AmazonUK/status/1336341701749690368Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 have a simple skill that serves up questions on everyone's favourite wizarding world.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Another one covered over *1000* 😱 episodes ago, today's skill is a classic example of the 'Escape the room' genre and is called, er. 'Escape the Room'. There are three free rooms to choose from. Fancy escaping from a spaceship? That'll probably cost you a few spacebucks. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 over *1000* 😱 episodes ago, today's skill is a simple and soothing way to get just the right amount of meditation in before the gong goes 'Bong' 😪 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

New to the UK and for those with a vision or reading impairment, this feature furnishes you with a description of every can and package in a trice. Nice. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

He's back! Shaun Preece, AKA @TheBlurredNerd on the Twitters, brings us a hypnotisingly good demo to help us relax and forget all about the global pandemic that'll get us all 😱Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 first connected with The Daily Connection over 700 episodes ago - that's more like a two-yearly connection by my reckoning.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 over 500 episodes ago, this is a classic and well worth a revisit. Can you beat the intro before the rest to be the best?Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 800 episodes ago, today's skill is a hit quiz about hit songs from the decade of your choosing - and now a lot more too.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 the amazing Shaun Preece (@TheBlurredNerd on the Twitters and my co-host on The Echo Show) brings us goats, doors and cash prizes. What more could we want??!!Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Float away on a fluffy pillow of ease without a care in the world after hearing the merest snatch of soothing and destressing guidance in today's great skill.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 start with a quick update on the A-lady's powerful calendar functions, and that's followed by an even quicker demo by Brian Counter (@CultoftheOld on the Twitters) of a finger of fate skill with a sweet sound effect.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

The newly-refreshed audio book selection on the A-lady now lasts till 4 Jan 2021. Nice.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

I have *no* idea what is going on in this game. I guess I'm not very good at insulting pirates - or listening to instructions - one or the other (or both). Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

The brilliant Brian Counter (@CultoftheOld on the Twitters) brings us today's dice-tossing feast of fighting with fiends of every flavour in a dungeon near you. Nice. For info there's also a board game of the same name, with a version available (in The States at least) that's been adapted for the blind. Even nicer.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 over *1100* episodes ago, this is a truly superb skill demo brought to us by Shaun Preece (my co-host on The Echo Show) and all-round lovely bloke who deserves at least, erm, two thumbs up 👍👍 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Can you help your nation to the top of the trivia charts? Covered over 700 episodes ago this one's well worth a revisit.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Found in the skill store as 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail Quotes', this superb skill simply gives you a different Holy Grail recorded quote each time.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

It's getting easier and easier to find out what you can do with your Echo. I initially said "…with the A-lady" but that didn't sound quite right. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 You can also support the show with a tap at www.glow.fm/dottodotn- please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟

Covered over 300 episodes ago, Shaun serves up a seriously good demo of this brilliant word-play skill and doesn't even get *that* sweaty in the process 🎾😅 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Is today's skill truly tip-top or a bit of a flop? I'll let you decide - and don't forget we're talking about the skill here and not the demo 😱Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

It was a dark and stormy night on old man MacDonald's farm. Actually, it wasn't. It was a bright and chipper morning. Covered over 1000 episodes ago, this porcine private eye will prevail whatever the weather and despite any diurnal distractions. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Oooh, this is so not my thing. If you like stat-heavy turn-based scrapping with some special powers thrown in, then maybe you'll take a listen.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

After a generous surprise delivery from the amazing guys at Amazon, I'm in a position to demo the new, thoroughly rotund Echoes and take them for a spin. This is the rock 'n' roll lifestyle for sure!Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

Shaun's back bringing us a brilliant demo of a smart vacuum skill from iRobot. Keep all small dogs, children and large denomination bank notes off the floor before giving this one a test drive - just saying.Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟

With some startling sound-effects and swift, slightly gory action, this dungeon-based adventure isn't for the faint-hearted (in more ways than one).Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 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 🌟