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Amazon Echo Calling & Messaging: New Feature!
This week, Amazon introduced a new feature to their Echo deviceEcho device that changes the game entirely. When we talked to Alexa tech support last year, they were still wrangling with FCC regulations that prevented the Echo from being used as a phone supplement. With this new update, the Amazon Echo (or Dot) can be used almost as you would Skype—but without the video screen. Amazon Echo calling allows anyone who has enabled the feature to contact each other with just voice activation. If that doesn’t sound exciting, let us catch you up.
What to Know Before You Delete a Page from Your Website
For every website owner, the time comes when you get the urge to do a little redecorating. You’ll move pages around into different categories and maybe delete a few. You might even change a URL to be simpler or more SEO-friendly: for example, shortening www.mywebsite.com/contact-us to www.mywebsite.com/contact. Now, your site looks fresh again and is a lot easier to navigate. But if you’ve also been doing a good job at internet marketing, you might run into some problems. What about all those links to your website you posted on Facebook or Twitter? Are you okay with all those lovingly posted promotional messages for your blog going to a 404 page of your newly reorganized website? And on top of the 404 page, Google can penalize you for an excessive number of broken links, harming your SEO efforts. Well, there’s no reason it has to be that way.
Review of Carbonite Cloud Backup Service
So that cooler heads would prevail, I waited for a while to write this post. Last month one of our team (me) started experiencing the Blue Screen of Death, and later that day—a total hard drive failure. As enthusiastic supporters of backup systems, I had implemented several different backup systems, but all of them are cloud-based. Our team members who office in the same space use a Synology for local backup on top of their cloud backup, and it’s fantastic, but I don’t have one set up… yet. Said team members also use AWS (Amazon Web Services) for cloud storage, which is extremely inexpensive and secure, but doesn’t provide a friendly interface for performing backups. Having chosen among several easy-to-use cloud backup platforms, I’ve been a Carbonite subscriber for about eight years. Here is my review of Carbonite.
