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Assistant – Home

Toast Made custom photo etching Google Home wrap
Assistant - Home Google 

Google Assistant, and support getting increasingly off target

April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 Paul E King 0 Comments

This won’t be the first time I’ve complained about this and probably not the last. For the past couple of

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Google Weather Frog - source https://www.flickr.com/photos/dennissylvesterhurd/51313302317
Assistant - Home Google 

A couple of newish things to check out on Nest/Assistant for your kiddos (or you)

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 Paul E King 0 Comments

If your child is always asking Google for how many days until a certain date, and that date happens to

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AMORTEK Outlet Wall Mount Holder for Google Home Mini, A Space-Saving Accessories for Google Home Mini Voice Assistant
Assistant - Home 

Unlike your kids, Google Assistant now listens to “stop”

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 Paul E King 0 Comments

While you’ve been able to just yell “stop” to cancel timers and alarms, you can now tell Assistant to stop

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Google Home Mini large
Assistant - Home Google 

The right white noise comes back to Google Assistant, other things broken again

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Paul E King 0 Comments

If you live near a train switching “bump” yard (or anywhere loud really,) chances are you’ll know the beauty of

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Google Home Hub initial impressions
Assistant - Home Google 

A bit ago Assistant stopped responding normally

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 Paul E King 0 Comments

TL;DR – word order appears to matter more lately than it used to. I use Google Assistant to do a

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Google Home Mini large
Assistant - Home Google 

Is “OK Google” triggering more for you lately?

December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 Paul E King 0 Comments OK Google

For the past few years living with the Goog, I’ve had Assistant wake up a few times for things that

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Smart Assistant Living
Assistant - Home Google 

While you weren’t looking Google fixed white noise

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Paul E King 0 Comments Google

One of my biggest complaints with Google Home / Assistant for the longest time was that asking it to play

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Pozio - smart earmuffs for your smart assistant
Accessories Amazon Assistant - Home Reviews 

Pozio Shield review – stop assistants from eavesdropping

October 25, 2021October 27, 2021 Paul E King 3 Comments

Pozio is a set of devices that puts earmuffs on your smart assistant. We’re only covering the Pozio Shield today,

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Smart Assistant Living
Assistant - Home Google 

Phase 2 of the AI plan: you’re being warned

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 Paul E King 0 Comments

Evidently cursing at your Google assistant will result in it asking you, nicely at this point (at least while it’s

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Pitcherlist Fantasy
Assistant - Home Google 

Google News won’t let me quit Pitcherlist Fantasy Baseball

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Paul E King 0 Comments Google News

If you were to describe me as an undying sports fanatic, well, you’d be almost completely wrong. Yet for some

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Smart Assistant Living
Assistant - Home Google 

I sense Google’s customer satisfaction is going

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Paul E King 1 Comment

Google appeared on my irk radar again last week with the new Driving Mode just going away (still gone,) but

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