Just Bought an Amazon Echo? Download These 15 Essential Alexa Skills!

While the Amazon Echo ecosystem continues to grow with more devices like the touchscreen Echo Show, skills are also on the rise and now number more than 15,000. If you don’t know what skills are, just think of them as voice-activated apps that provide pretty much any service imaginable. Even though 15,000 is quite impressive, not every skill is a winner. In fact, many skills are simply not so smart. For every useful skill, there are three or four skills that literally just play fart noises. That makes it hard for any newcomer to find practical and useful skills that...

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