Cortana

Can Cortana provide location and geography information? Many of us travel on a day to day basis and it can become cumbersome to remember all the cities, states, countries and locations we’ve been too. Sometimes it’s easier simply to ask a personal assistant about our current geographical location or perhaps about certain landmarks in a […]

Can Cortana Set And Keep Track Of Timers? If you have not tried to use a timer with your digital personal assistant then it’s the most logical place to start. Timers are extremely powerful tools when organizing and maintaining efficiency. Let me give some situations where this is true. For example, let’s say you are […]

Can Cortana remind me of important tasks? Many of us live extremely busy lives. For example, I currently have over 300 items on my Trello to do list. I am not kidding. Between work, family and home: there are so many different things to keep track of in our daily lives. Some may wonder just […]

Can Cortana schedule and manage appointments? Yes, but first make sure you know how to connect Cortana to Outlook and Gmail, otherwise this post will prove useless to you. We’re all busy these days. In fact, it’s amazing to see just how busy we are given the power of technology at our fingertips. Somehow we’ve […]

Want to learn How To Connect Cortana To Outlook And Gmail in 2020? Cortana is a powerful, voice activated assistant managed by Microsoft. She has come a long way, but Cortana users may be wondering how to connect Cortana to Outlook and Gmail. Unfortunately, connecting Cortana to Outlook and Gmail is not as intuitive as […]

Can Cortana provide relevant movie information? There are hundreds of thousands of movies available in the open market. In fact, it’s quite amazing to think about the sheer volume of entertainment content available at our fingertips. This can lead to some first world frustrations with keeping up with entertainment culture. This is also one place […]

Can Cortana perform real time currency conversion? There are hundreds of currencies across many cultures and geographies. This means keeping track of how much money you have in a different currency can be tricky. Thankfully Cortana has the ability to convert any amount of money from one currency type to another given the most recently […]

Can Cortana tell time in other time zones? This question might seem asinine because most people don’t see an immediate need to knowing the time in other locations. This is one of those features of Cortana that is more of a convenience than it is a useful tool. It is nice being able to figure […]

Can Cortana help identify Famous People? This question might seem asinine because most people don’t see an immediate need to knowing much about famous people. This is one of those features of Cortana that is more of a convenience than it is a useful tool. It is nice being able to identify famous people (not […]

Can Cortana help identify Holidays and dates? There are hundreds of holidays celebrated across many cultures and ethnicities. It would be impossible for everyone to keep up with all of them. Cortana can help because she has instant access to an entire library of existing holidays. Cortana has become an extremely powerful voice assistant platform […]

So, can Cortana help with word definitions? Many languages have over one hundred thousand words in their vocabulary. In fact, new words are created culturally every single day. This may leave many of us wondering what the definition of those words are. Cortana’s comprehensive vocabulary allows you to pull word definitions simply by asking her. […]

Cortana is Microsoft’s voice activated assistant and designed to be a suitable alternative for Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. Learning how to enable or disable the taskbar Cortana search bar is extremely simple to do. This post will cover the pros and cons of Cortana and guide you through the simple steps showing how to […]

In this post, I am excited to share 10 Awesome Tricks You Can Do With Cortana. Cortana is Microsoft’s voice command equivalent to Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa. Unfortunately, there are limitations to all of these voice command services, and doubtless many users of each service has their individual complaints of where they […]