NEWS – This might be old news to some, but for those who don’t know – Grubhub+ is free with your Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. A couple of years ago, Amazon offered a free 1-year trial for Grubhub+, then extended it for another year. Then this past June they decided to make it […]
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NEWS – Amazon’s Dash Smart Shelf is a flat device that you use to sit a particular item on. The shelf tracks the weight of that item (household/office/pet supplies) and can automatically reorder it or notify you when it gets low. When you have several people in your household or office using up certain items,
NEWS – It may be later than normal this year, but one of the biggest shopping days of the year is Amazon Prime Day and it starts tomorrow so you better be ready. Prime Day is when Amazon heavily discounts products exclusively for Amazon Prime members. This year, Amazon is giving Prime members 2 days
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ARTICLE – I got hooked on Amazon’s Subscribe & Save program when my boys were infants. As a busy, working mom, it was almost too good to be true, the idea that I’d never again run out of diapers, wipes or formula. A decade later, and I’m still using this service every month. In fact,
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ARTICLE – A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about How to listen to audiobooks and read eBooks for FREE. Since then, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying using the Libby app to listen to free audiobooks by checking them out (virtually) from my local library. I listen to the audiobooks through my phone (Huawei
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NEWS – Other than Black Friday, which comes in November, the biggest shopping day of the year has been Amazon Prime Day which launched 5 years ago. Prime Day has been one day in July where Amazon heavily discounts products exclusively for Amazon Prime members. This year, Amazon is giving Prime members 2 days of
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NEWS – Do you ever buy something from Amazon and use it once or twice and stuff it in a drawer never to be used again? I think we all do that sometimes. That “sometimes” can add up and by add up, I mean in both money and unused stuff cluttering your home. If you
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NEWS – Not content to just sell everyone on the planet everything they need, Amazon wants to help you with that process by providing global broadband internet access…from space! Project Kuiper is an ambitious project to launch 3,236 satellites into orbit at three different orbital altitudes: 784 satellites at an altitude of 367 miles; 1,296
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NEWS – If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you now have a new delivery option. On Thursday Amazon launched Amazon Day, a new service that lets Prime Members pick what day of the week they want to receive their packages. All you have to do is select the Amazon Day option at checkout, then choose
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NEWS – Well, this is an interesting bit of news. Apparently the long-standing riff, feud, or whatever you want to call it between the two largest tech industry power players Amazon and Apple may be softening. The news is that starting next month (December 17th, 2018), you’ll be able to play Apple Music on Amazon
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NEWS – The 2nd gen Amazon Echo 2 is where the Alexa voice assistant lives and waits to respond to your every whim. Too bad she’s stuck connected to your desk when she deserves to be freed from the shackles her power cord. Now you can free her with the help of Ninety7’s SKY TOTE.
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NEWS – The Echo Dot is a cost-effective way to add Amazon’s Alexa to your smart home, but you’ll find it doesn’t have the best built-in speaker for listening to music. And sure, you can use Alexa to set a wake-up alarm, and you can ask her the time, but a middle-of-the-night time check might
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DEALS One day (and a half) each year, Amazon 1000’s of their sellers put on an extravaganza of shopping for Prime members and today happens to be the start of that event. I’ve gathered a collection of shopping deals to share with you, so go crazy! DJI deal Save $210 off the DJI Mavic Pro
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DEALS – There are only 3 more days until the 4th annual Prime Day! Starting July 16 at 12PM PT/3PM ET you shop more than one million deals worldwide. With special deals happening as often as every 5 minutes, there are sure to be lots of great bargains that you won’t want to miss. But
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The Amazon Alexa service is a world class platform for enabling natural language with a host of Alexa capable devices. Many people interact with the Alexa service using one of Amazon’s own Echo devices. Late in 2017, Amazon updated the original three-year-old Echo with a new design. The new design offered a lower price, new
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Last year Amazon introduced Key In-Home delivery which allowed Prime deliveries directly into your home. On Tuesday they launched Key In-Car, a new service that allows couriers to deliver packages directly into the trunk of your vehicle. The new service is free for Prime members in 37 cities in the US driving a 2015 or newer Chevrolet,
Packages delivered directly into the trunk of your car: what will Amazon think of next?! Read More
The first review I ever wrote for the Gadgeteer was for the Amazon Echo Dot. With Amazon’s AI Alexa, you could use skills to do things such as turn on lights or order a pizza. Since that time Alexa has evolved. Now there are literally thousands of new skills. Some useful, others not so much. In
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Usually, when you hear about tiny homes, you hear the story of how the owner has crafted their home themselves. If you aren’t handy, there are some options for buying a pre-made tiny home, if you’re lucky enough to find a manufacturer you can work with. Now any of us could have a tiny home
Do you love your Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot but wish it had a more luxury look and feel instead of black plastic meh? You’re in luck. The folks at Toast are now offering skins for the Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot that are made of wood. Available in walnut, ash, bamboo, and ebony,
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An Echo Dot can serve as your wake-up alarm all by itself, but iHome has created the Bedside Stereo Speaker that makes your Dot look like a regular alarm clock. The Dot (generation 1 or 2) connects to the iHome via AUX cable to play all audio, so you can listen to the music Alexa
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