Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Requiring those groovy Echo Buttons, this skill serves up sections of stories and you, the loquacious button-wielders, provide the bits in-between. Enjoy today's demo, but watch out for those creepy soot-covered mime artists coming down the chimney…

Today's relatively feeble puzzle skill may well not b your cup of tea - or if it is then you like your tea pretty weak and don't mind it having a couple of slightly dodgy bits in it. Perhaps a palid brew with some strange, suspiscious-looking lumps in - almost certainly owing to the milk being more than a bit off…

Stretching's important if you want to avoid such notable injurious episodes as THE GREAT HISTORICAL NERVE TRAUMA OF THE SUMMER OF 2016. You have been warned…

Simply opened with 'Jack Ryan', this intense escape-the-room-style audio adventure has attitude. Will you make it through the initial training exercise, graduate to full gung-ho, gun-toting agent status and find the mole in your CIA organisation? (I'd start under the front lawn myself and, instead of a gun, go for a hoe.)

I'm not going to say anything about the button-toting individual who knows nothing about Star Trek and yet still assumes he can demo a skill about same - I'm too embarrassed.

Put on your workout gear and your dancing shoes and get down with the kids for today's hip and happening space rave, er, party. Whatever it is, it's out of this world.

Was the title character in 'Sleeping Beauty' a bit of a looker? Was 'Frozen' set in the Bahamas? Search me - I'm a real Dumbo when it comes to Disney. Luckily, Phillip Chalker is back to help us out. I'm not even the Sorcerer's Apprentice on this one…

Wow that's a lot of hyphens. I wonder if 'update' should actually have one too? Anyway, I digress. This is a quick update/up-date of the My Pod skill we covered recently, as well as a shout-out for the live Maccessibility stream starting today promptly after the end of the great Apple event of September 2018 (in which we all found out how much money we're going to have to shell out in the coming weeks). You can listen to the stream at maccessibility.net or using the My Pod skill on your Echo. Also feel free to follow @Maccessibility on Twitter and use #VOLive to interact with us - oh and why not follow me (@USA2DAY) while you're at it too?

Is today's skill as sweet as honey with a mere fraction of the calories? Do bears pick flowers in the woods?? Do bees always find their way back to the best podcasts?