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11-03-2019, 07:14 AM | #4010 |
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I'm tempted by the $60 Echo Show in today's deals. Is there any way to use one in the kitchen to display my own recipes?
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11-03-2019, 09:00 AM | #4011 | |
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I have a Show 5 and use it mainly for music and audiobooks. It'll display recipes, but I don't use that feature and have no idea how you'd upload your own recipes. |
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11-03-2019, 09:27 AM | #4012 | |
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BTW if anyone wants to make some money, develop an app that searches for recipes only from a set of preselected sites like food.com, allrecipes, taste of home etc. Then my search for buffalo wings wouldn't return 50 pages of hits topped by the latest vegan recipe from some new-age housewife's blog... |
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11-03-2019, 09:42 AM | #4013 | |
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I just did this on my Show 5: "Alexa, show me recipes for buffalo wings" She returned 25 recipes that you scroll right to left:
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11-10-2019, 10:46 AM | #4014 | |
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"Alexa, ¡Hola!"
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11-10-2019, 10:49 AM | #4015 | |
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"Alexa, happy birthday"
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11-10-2019, 10:55 AM | #4016 | |
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Alexa's Monthly Roundup | October 30, 2019
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11-11-2019, 12:53 PM | #4017 |
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Me: "Alexa, turn off the lights."
Alexa: "Shuffling songs by Sade." I'm more than satisfied with my general Echo(s) setup and the control of various things around the house. It all works fairly consistently for me. But every now and then, she just blows my mind with something completely off the wall!" |
11-16-2019, 05:21 PM | #4018 | |
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Almost no one is buying Google smart speakers anymore
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11-16-2019, 05:28 PM | #4019 |
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11-20-2019, 10:18 PM | #4020 |
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Interesting news article on BuzzFeedNews titled “Her Amazon Purchases Are Real. The Reviews Are Fake.” It discusses how 3rd party sellers on Amazon pay people to buy their products and then write 5 star reviews as verified buyers. The jerks who do this buy the items with their own credit cards to get “buyer verified” attached to their reviews, then the 3rd party seller reimburses them once the 5 star review is posted. I think we have suspected this garbage all along. Personally I never trust reviews on any retail site as they tend to seem rather manipulated. Even legitimate reviews are often ridiculous. We see an irate customer mad because UPS trashed their package so they give the item a bad rating. We see idiots who order the wrong thing because they have their head up their backside, but they blame the seller. And of course, we have the sellers who scam the system to inflate their product ratings. One thing is for sure, you can’t trust the numbers and you have to read each review to judge whether it is fake, stupid, nonsensical, are actually helpful.
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