Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Starting with a quick reminder about the three free books we can listen to this month, we then swiftly move on to a fabulous skill we've lookd at already - back in the dim and distant annals of podcasting. Covered over 500 episodes ago, this one's still a winner as I hope you'll agree. BTW, do you know what Winnie the Pooh and Alexander the Great have in common? Answer on a postcard. 

Great sound-effects - but somewhat hard to shake the nagging knowledge that this game is pure luck. Will you make it out of this maddening maze mainly unmunched?

Covered almost exactly 850 episodes ago, this one is well worth a revisit. Top stories and podcasts from a top name in journalism.

By 4StarSkills, this skill that freshly dropped on the store today actually does seem to deliver some reasonably funny jokes. I'd give it … erm … 4 stars, I think.

The crime rates in Alexton are through the roof. Yikes! Can you help clean up the mean virtual streets of this crime-ridden conurbation? Yes? Cool. Get cracking. You want to hear the demo first? OK - but then you must pinky promise to get on with the job of crime-busting. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. Don't forget - you pinky promised…

Randy Rusnak (@TheBigR on the Twitters) is back to bring us a brilliant demo of his new Toshiba TV with built-in firey Alexa goodness. It's almost enough to make me want to watch TV. Actually, that's a fib - but it's great that there are so many options to Alexify your viewing (and really accessible too).

Yes, that's the whole skill name - including the 'by Voice First Health' bit. It simply adds a brief, informative, skin care tip to your daily flash briefing - voiced by humans.

Today's excellent skill is by those prolific developers at Volley Inc. It gives a random selection of their excellent informational skills to enjoy each day.

It's been a busy week for the Echo. We start with the tiny tip that Whisper Mode has now come to the UK and then attempt to flag a few of the several million hardware and service updates that came out of Amazon at their event last Wednesday. For a full round-up, check out any of the many helpful write-ups such as this one by TechCrunch.

Never again forget to put the bins out with this great reminder skill. Don't know why, but it reminded me of that great song by The Baha Men…