All posts tagged "iot"

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  How-To

  How to Use the Alexa Cast Feature to Beam Music to Echo Devices

  Amazon recently released Alexa Cast technology that allows you to beam audio from your phone or tablet to your Echo and Alexa-enabled...

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  How-To

  Change the Alexa Wake Word for Fire HD Tablet in Show Mode

  The Fire HD tablet is a more useful device since Amazon introduced Show Mode. And it also comes with more settings for...

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  How-To

  How to Download and View a Copy of Your Windows 10 Cortana Data

  Cortana in Windows 10 is a great digital assistant but, like the other assistants, it keeps data about you. Here's how to...

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  News

  Amazon Merges Fire TV and Echo with the New Fire TV Cube

  Amazon is launching the Fire TV Cube which is a device that combines its Amazon Echo with its video streaming Fire TV...

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  News

  Apple Releases 11.4 Updates for iOS and Apple TV AirPlay 2 Support

  A week ahead of this year's WWDC, Apple released updates for all its devices (sans macOS) and it includes Messages in iCloud...

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  Bought Your First Amazon Alexa? Here’s How To Set It Up

  An Amazon Echo device with Alexa is designed to make your life easier. But before you begin, here are the essential steps...

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  Find All Devices Connected to Your Home Network the Easy Way

  If you have a ton of computers and smart devices connected to your home network, the Fing app makes finding their IP...

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  How to Stream Music from Google Home to Any Bluetooth Speaker

  Google rolled out an update to the Google Home app that allows you to pair a Google Home Mini with any other...

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  How to Use Alexa’s Follow-Up Mode on Echo Devices

  Amazon now has Follow-Up Mode for Alexa that allows you to give a series of commands without speaking the wake word each...

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  Whole House Audio with Google Home Multi Room Playback

  If you own more than one Google Home, you can play the same music to multiple speakers at once.

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  How-To

  Set Up Multiroom Audio Playback with Amazon Echo Devices

  One feature Amazon added to its Echo devices is the ability to play multiroom audio. Here's how to set it up and...

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  News

  Wake Up to Your Favorite Music on Google Home and More

  You can now use your Google Home speaker as an alarm to wake up to your favorite song and look up TV...

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  How-To

  How to Send SMS Text Messages with Alexa on Amazon Echo Devices

  Amazon has added a new SMS texting ability to Alexa devices which adds to the hands-free communication options you have with the...

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  How-To

  Delete Your Voice Recordings from Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Siri

  Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft keep recordings of your smart speaker voice commands on their servers. Here's how to delete them.