Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Today we look at how you can call up web pages on your Echo Show or Spot - and with the help of VoiceView, the screen reading software for visually-impaired users like myself, we also hear what you'd otherwise see on the screen coz, y'know, this is audio.

Choo-choo!! This looks like a great skill to compliment the popular board game; Ticket to Ride Europe. Also available in a less Euro-centric flavour, both board games are available from Amazon and might be just the thing to really blow your whistle.

Despite seeming to be all about tasty spreads that younger dogs might want to put on their toast, today's skill brought to us by Thomas Domville ([email protected]) is really about fab pooch-oriented music.

This skill is a really easy way for Muslims everywhere to know exactly when and in which direction they need to pray. Simply provide your location and the A-lady will do the rest.

For a mere 99 cents you can have your Echo sound just like Samuel L Jackson. I'm not going to admit that I don't know who he is or what films he's been in (he's an actor - I know that much) but, thanks to David Ward ([email protected]), I now know that he certainly has a nice sounding voice.

In the hope that there'll be something similar (and on a sport to your liking) wherever you are, I bring you today's skill about predicting the scores of each week's football matches.

Wow - love this skill. I think I must be a bit odd, but I really like all these simple skills that test you in some way. This one will stretch your memory to the very limit.

Get the old grey cells going with today's memory-boosting skill. What's missing? Is it the donkey, the disco ball or the sponge? Those were the first-round items presented to me on enabling this skill. So you've got to like it from that point on, haven't you?

In looking to see if yesterday's skill was in the UK skillstore, I found today's offering. Can you or your friends guess the correct number without being cursed, or will this skill get the new year off to a shaky start with a hateful witch's hex hurled your way?

He's back. Thomas Domville ([email protected]) brings us a brilliant preview of a skill that's soon to hit the US skillstore. Not here in the UK as yet, I hope that it's available wherever you are if it sounds like your cup of tea.