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The First Alexa Skills to Enable on Your New Amazon Echo. So, you bought an Amazon Echo during Prime Day, but you’re not sure what to do with it other than ask it silly questions, set timers, and roll a dice. Before you return it, know there’s a whole bunch else you can do with that smart speaker.

The Echo currently has more than 3,0. Amazon. But since writing a guide for all its talents would probably be longer than a Nicholas Sparks novel, here is a quick list of the best, practical skills you should start using right away. Amazon’s trying to kill your controller with a new Alexa skill designed to make watching TV super…Read more Read. Get your daily morning news briefing. One of my favorite Alexa skills is the morning news briefing, since I get to lie in bed or prepare breakfast while getting the news read to me. Just ask, “Alexa, read me the news” and Alexa will let you know what’s going on in this crazy world, courtesy of NPR.

She’ll even finish the briefing with a weather update. You can customize your flash briefing in the Alexa mobile app. Or, install the Guardian skill and ask Alexa to read you headlines and even full articles. Work out with Alexa. Sometimes it’s hard to go to the gym when you have such a busy schedule, but Alexa can help you fit in a quick workout in the morning. Just say, “Alexa, start 7- minute workout,” and the AI will guide you through a series of workout repetitions that will surely make you sweat. If you don’t know what the workout looks like, you can just look them up on your phone and follow along.

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Amazon’s beefing up some basic features in Alexa, its voice- controlled assistant. Your favorite…Read more Read. Control your lights. This skill is one of the most basic and known, but also one of the most convenient—or maybe I’m just lazy. But if own Philips Hue Lights, you can ask Alexa to turn them on/off without having to get up from your bed or couch. It’s ideal for when you’re going to bed, or already sat down at your couch with the popcorn and about to watch a movie. Change the wake word.

If having “Alexa” as the wake word—the word that triggers the voice assistant—is causing to much trouble because someone in the house is named Alex or Alexis, you can change it to something less common. You can change the wake word to Amazon, Echo, or Computer. Sure, the options are limited right now, but hopefully Amazon lets us change it to whatever we want in a near future. I would love to call mine Jarvis, like Iron Man. The future you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Amazon has added a new accepted wake word to…Read more Read. Find your smartphone.

Are you the type of person who constantly loses their phone around the house? Well, Alexa has a neat skill to help you find it. If you sign up for a Track. R account, you can just ask, “Alexa, find my phone,” and the smart speaker will make sure your smartphone rings at full volume—and guess what? It was probably under the couch cushion again.

Check airport security wait times before you leave the house. Plan better and avoid long lines the day you travel.

Just say, “Alexa, ask airport security for the wait time at La Guardia (or whichever airport),” and the AI will check the TSA’s public API for the last reported wait times at the airport checkpoint. If you’re a last minute planner when traveling, this trick will help you a lot while your packing in a rush the morning of your flight. We’ve previously covered how cool automatic blinds are. And we know the Amazon Echo is pretty…Read more Read. Set Spotify as the default music streaming service. Amazon announced last year that it would add a Spotify skill to Alexa’s catalog, but in order to have it work properly consumer has to say, “Alexa, play Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen On Spotify.” If you didn’t specify Spotify, Alexa would try and find the song on Amazon Music, which has a very limited song catalog.

However, there’s a way to make Spotify the default so when you ask to play a song, it’ll automatically fetch the media from the select streaming service. Open the Alexa App and under Settings go into Music & Media. Once there, just select Spotify as the default music service and save your changes. For whatever reason, controlling blinds in a smart home has always been a bit of a holy grail for…Read more Read. Get exclusive deals through Alexa.

If you’re looking for a new way of shopping, all you have to do is ask, “Alexa, what are your deals?” and the smart speaker will recite a list of Prime- member- exclusive deals. If you have Alexa synced with your Prime membership and your payment method of choice, you can just Alexa to place an order for you. Add a code to avoid accidental purchases. Since Alexa is very easy to trigger with language that resembles her name, you might sometimes end up accidentally making an unwanted purchase. However, there is a way to prevent an unintended purchase from Alexa by setting up a 4- digit voice shopping code through the corresponding app. To input a code go to the Alexa app’s Settings and choose Voice Purchasing, then just input your code and select Save Changes.

Learn more skills. You can also discover more Alexa skills by using the Skill Finder. All you have to say is, “Alexa, tell Skill Finder to give me the skill of the day” and you will unearth new, cool skills. You can also learn about new talents by category by asking, “Alexa, tell Skill Finder to list the top skills in the games category.”.

Compared: Fibre broadband services in Malaysia — TM vs TIME vs Maxis vs Celcom. UPDATE: We’ve updated the comparison to include TM’s new 1. Mbps Uni. Fi Pro plan. UPDATE 2: Celcom’s Home Broadband joins the fray. After the initial telco price war, it seems the battle has spilt over into the realm of fixed broadband services as the big- three fibre broadband service providers in Malaysia clash. The question is, which one is the best for you? Don’t worry because, as usual, we’ve got you covered.

Click to enlarge. We saw strong offerings from the four major players in the fibre broadband industry, but as with most plans, there are pros and cons to each plan. Let’s dive into each one and see if we can find which is the best. TM Uni. Fi. TM kicked things off by upping their Uni.

Fi game to the current Uni. Fi Advance plan which offers 3. Mbps download speeds for RM1. If you desire more speed, you can opt for the upgrade to 5.

Mbps for RM5. 0 extra. TM also have a new Uni. Fi Pro plan that offers speeds up to 1. Mbps. Much like the original VIP Uni. Fi plans, you will also get a free Hypp. TV subscription though only for the base channels. If you’re a big TV or movie buff, TM’s Uni. Fi also offers a 1- year free subscription to local streaming service iflix worth RM9.

With iflix, you get access to a moderately large catalogue of old and some relatively new shows that you can binge, including exclusives like Mr Robot. Opting for the Uni. Fi Pro plan gives you additional benefits on top of those that you get with the Uni.

Fi Advance plans. Firstly, the Uni. Fi Pro plan comes with a free Voice Call voice bundle (worth RM2. TM fixed lines remain free). You also get a free 3- month access pass to Viu — a streaming site that offers Korean dramas, varriety shows and other asian programs. There is a caveat, however. With Uni. Fi Advance and Pro, your download and upload speeds are not symmetrical, meaning for the base RM1.

Mbps download speeds but only 1. Watch Herbie Goes Bananas Online Moviesdbz on this page. Mbps upload speeds.

The same goes for the 5. Mbps which have its upload speed limited to 2.

Mbps and the 1. 00. Mbps Pro plan which has it’s upload speeds limited to 5.

Mbps. Do keep in mind that these prices for the Uni. Fi Advance and Pro plans are still under a promo price (original prices: RM1. Mbps), RM2. 49 (5. Mbps), RM3. 29 (1.

Mbps) so the original prices are a tad higher. While TM has extended the promotional period for the Uni. Fi Advance plans in the past, it remains unclear if they will do so for the “early bird promo” price for the Uni. Fi Pro plan. TIME Fibre. TIME, on the other hand, released their latest range of broadband services with symmetrical speeds of up to 5. Mbps for RM2. 99. If you don’t want to pay the premium for 5.

Mbps, they also have lower tier plans rated at 1. Mbps and 3. 00. Mbps that costs RM1. RM1. 89 respectively.

With TIME, you don’t get many luxuries in terms of add- ons, just raw Internet speed. In this aspect, TIME is unmatched by the other local fibre broadband operators, but, they have their hands tied when it comes to coverage as TIME’s services only extend to 2. Most of TIME’s ports can be found in apartments and condos so if you’re living on a landed property, odds are, you won’t be able to subscribe to TIME.

Maxis. ONE Home. Maxis are notorious for not participating in price wars, instead, opting to improve customer service and reliability. With that in mind, Maxis launched their latest Maxis. ONE Home fibre broadband plans which focus on customer service and installation experience. What they’ve come up with is the Maxperts which, in their own words. SWAT- like team of Internet experts” who specialise in optimising your Internet connection. We can see how this is useful for those who are less than tech- savvy, but if you are anything like us, the services these Maxperts provide become much less valuable as you could probably do the optimising yourself. In true Maxis fashion, their fibre plans are the most expensive in this comparison.

For the base 2. 0Mbps plan, Maxis are charging RM1. Mbps plan is going for RM2. You will also have to be subscribed to a Maxis. ONE Plan (excluding the Maxis. ONE Plan Lite) before you are eligible to subscribe to the Maxis. ONE Home. To make matters worse, the prices mentioned above are after a special promo discount for Maxis. ONE Plan 1. 28 and above customers.

That means, if you’re a Maxis. ONE Plan 9. 8 subscriber, you will still have to pay the full price of RM1. Mbps, RM2. 70 for 3. Mbps and RM3. 98 for 1.

Mbps. Speaking of the 1. Mbps plan, this plan is only available within Maxis’ own area of coverage (which reaches 7. TM. Besides that, you will have to be a Maxis. ONE Plan 1. 58, 1.

Maxis. ONE Business and Maxis. ONE Business Extra to be eligible for the RM3. Celcom Home Broadband.

Celcom became the latest player to join the recent home fibre network race when they released their Home Broadband service. After their earlier agreement with TM, Celcom can now utilise TM’s HSBB network to provide home fibre broadband plans to their customers. Their plan offers a speed of 1. Mbps for RM1. 45/month. The caveat is that this plan is only available for Celcom FIRST Gold subscribers in the Klang Valley area.

That said, the plan itself isn’t that attractive. If you’re only interested in paying the bare minimum for fibre Internet connectivity and are a Celcom FIRST Gold subscriber, then perhaps this plan could be for you. Celcom are also offering a 5. Home Broadband subscription so that could be quite attractive for the user on a budget. However, if you’re a moderate or above user, you’d be better off topping up a little bit extra for two or three times faster speeds with Maxis Fibre or Uni. Fi. You could also just top up RM4 for 1. Mbps if you happen to find yourself within TIME’s coverage area.

Conclusion. In all honesty, these four companies aren’t exactly direct competitors because (especially in the case of TIME) you either have one or the other. Besides Maxis, Celcom and TM, these services rarely overlap. That said, it is worth taking a look at who can provide the most well- rounded package out there. If it was up to me and I could choose between these three services, I would pick TIME. I’m a heavy Internet user so all I care about is Internet speed and stability — I don’t need all the extra goodies like IPTV bundles and calls or streaming subscriptions. But, I’m willing to bet that not many share my usage habits.

So, if I were to consider the average household — including family members, guests, children, etc.