The Amazon Echo just got a little more customizable, as the device now does an even better job of pairing up with the popular website IFTTT.

If that all sounds like alphabet soup, here's the lowdown: IFTTT, which stands for "If this, then that," lets you pair triggers with actions across a wide variety of Web-enabled products, apps, and services.

With IFTTT, you could trigger your smart lightbulbs to go on whenever your phone is within a certain proximity to your house (or vice versa). Or, you could receive a text message whenever the forecast calls for a certain weather condition, or when your best friend from second grade posts a photo to Instagram. The possibilities are, seemingly, endless.

Amazon's Echo device has supported IFTTT for some time now, but customization options have been limited. If you wanted to trigger an IFTTT command, you'd have use some awkward phrasing like asking Alexa "what's on my todo list" in order for IFTTT to then make your phone ring, in case you lost it. And, no, that's not a giant typo: That's the phrase that chained to this particular feature on IFTTT.

The new update now allows you to ask Alexa for more specific word triggers which then, in turn, will fire off some (much more closely) related IFTTT command. Now you can ask Alexa to "trigger find my phone." Or ask Alexa to "trigger party time," and your Philips Hue lights will jump into a color loop.

There are a number of triggers you can already use right now, and there will undoubtedly be a number coming out over the next few weeks, too. You can even try building some of your own.