{"id":44,"date":"2020-04-13T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:26:12","slug":"ask-alexa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/ask-alexa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Alexa 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Echo Show (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2V6oMSV\" target=\"_blank\">Echo Show<\/a> then you have the advantage of displaying images and video. I use my Echo Show to watch programs from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon Prime Video (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cfdd1A\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you link your Facebook to your <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alexa (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3egKc7t\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a> app you can personalise your wallpaper on your Echo Show.  Open your <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alexa app (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3eepNjv\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa app<\/a>, go to the menu and select &#8220;Settings&#8221;, &#8220;Photos&#8221; and then log into your Facebook account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2x0PwdU\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a>, what have you learnt today?\u201d Today <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2x0PwdU\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a> has been thinking about why there is so much chocolate around at Easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cAlexa, open Space Station\u201d Will let you know when the International Space Station will pass over your location.  The added bonus is that it will tell you other phenomena to look out for in the skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst buying <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38RuHPj\" target=\"_blank\">audiobooks<\/a> can be expensive so why not ask \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2x0PwdU\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a>, read me a free audiobook\u201d.  There is a small selection to choose from each month.  The other option is to download free books to your <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2J3DdAx\" target=\"_blank\">kindle<\/a> or kindle app and have them read to you.  Not the best way to listen but it is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For children you can ask  \u201cAlexa, read a bedtime story\u201d and hear a professionally narrated bedtime story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an Echo Show then you have the advantage of displaying images and video. I use my Echo Show to watch programs from Amazon Prime Video. If you link your Facebook to your Alexa app you can personalise your wallpaper on your Echo Show. Open your Alexa app, go to the menu and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/ask-alexa-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ask Alexa 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,3,14],"tags":[21,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}