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Social media is a powerful tool for small businesses. You can use it to find new customers, drive traffic to your website, and keep in touch with existing clients.

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The 7 best social media management tools in 2025

App tips

You can judge for yourself whether they're truly realistic or not. But first, let's have a look at what Sora is, how it works, and how it could be used going forward. 

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What is Sora? Everything you need to know about OpenAI's new text-to-video model

Where do you put your thoughts, your ideas, or the name of a movie someone recommended? Whether inspiration strikes when you're at home or on the go, a note-taking app offers an easy, convenient way to store all this information in one place.

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The 6 best note-taking apps in 2025

Time is money; your calendar is your budget. That's why it's important for your business to have the best calendar app possible.

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The 5 best calendar apps in 2025

App comparisons

Because they're the defaults on the two major smartphone platforms, comparing Google Calendar and Apple Calendar can be a little tricky. 

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Google Calendar vs. Apple Calendar: Which should you use? [2025]

To-do lists don't need to be complicated—plenty of people use a pen and paper for the job without any problem. And yet a new to-do list app seems to come out every day.

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The 7 best to do list apps in 2025

While Gmail is a full email service, Apple Mail is just an email client. This distinction is incredibly important when comparing them—and working out which one is right for you. 

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Gmail vs. Apple Mail: Which should you use? [2025]

To do lists don't need to be complicated–some people use pen and paper for the job, after all. And yet there are seemingly infinite to do list apps out there.

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The 6 best to do list apps for Mac in 2025

After spending time comparing apples to apples, here's how the Yahoo versus Gmail showdown looks.

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Yahoo Mail vs. Gmail: Which should you use? [2025]

Here's the human-written answer for how ChatGPT works.

How does ChatGPT work?

We've tested dozens of live chat apps for customer support, and here we'll present the best with our reasoning for each pick.

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The 5 best live chat apps for customer support in 2025

The features are still useful and make ChatGPT more accurate for time-sensitive and location dependent queries, but don't delete your Google account just yet. Here's what you need to know. 

What is ChatGPT search?

 I've been building websites for almost 20 years and I've used both WordPress and Shopify. They're both great platforms but they have different strengths. Let's look at how they stack up. 

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Shopify vs. WordPress: Which is best? [2025]

If you're building an online store today—whether you want to sell digital or physical products, subscriptions, or anything else—you're probably seriously considering either Shopify or WooCommerce. 

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WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Which eCommerce website builder is best? [2025]

For this article, I tested more than 30 of the top iPhone and Android photo editors—and these are the best six. 

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The 6 best photo editing apps for iPhone and Android in 2025 (including free options)

Email is the hub of almost every business. It's the easiest way to communicate, both internally and externally. It's where you get your most important notifications. And it gives you storage space for archiving critical information and shared files.

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The 5 best email hosting services for business in 2025

Social media has eliminated the need for everyone who wants to share their thoughts online to have a blog, but there are still plenty of excellent reasons for blogging.

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The 5 best blog sites for building a successful blog in 2025

Which AI image generator should you choose? I spent time tinkering with each one to help you make your pick.

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Stable Diffusion vs. DALL·E 3: Which image generator is better? [2025]

As AI tools get more popular, the politics, infighting, and investment opportunities are shaking things up. FLUX is a family of open text-to-image models from the researchers behind Stable Diffusion.

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What is FLUX.1? And is it a Stable Diffusion replacement?

When you want to follow specific writers, publications, and channels—to see every piece of content they publish—nothing beats an RSS reader app. RSS apps access web feeds published by websites, letting you aggregate and curate content you care about.

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The 3 best free RSS reader apps in 2025

Llama 3 is a pretty big deal, and it could blow the whole AI space wide open. Here's why.

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Meta AI: What is Llama and why does it matter?

Here's everything you need to know about context windows in LLMs—along with the pros and cons of larger context windows. 

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What is a context window—and why does it matter?

Among a sea of AI art generators, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney are two of the most powerful and customizable options available. If you're trying to decide which of the two top image generators to use, read on. 

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Midjourney vs. Stable Diffusion: Which AI image generator should you use? [2025]

I've been testing both of these image generators, both professionally and personally, since they were released, and there's a lot to unpack.

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Midjourney vs. DALL·E 3: Which image generator is better? [2025]

These tools will get you the best AI-generated images using text-to-image AI.

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The 7 best AI image generators in 2024

Landing pages are one-page marketing websites. Think of them like an online flyer for your business—except you can directly sell your product or service, or get your potential customer to sign up to your email list.

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The 7 best landing page builders in 2024

If o1 lives up to OpenAI's claims, it could be the start of another leap in just how useful LLMs can be.

What is OpenAI o1? And how does it compare to GPT-4o?

Midjourney is one my favorite AI image generators—and I've used a lot of them. It arguably produces the best results and would be my overall top pick for basically anyone if using it wasn't so…weird.

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How to use Midjourney to create AI-generated images

These 6 AI writing tools will help you take your content to the next level.

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The 6 best AI writing generators in 2024

Things are still shaking out, and the Open Source Initiative is currently developing a strict definition for what is required for an AI model to truly be considered open source, but let's look at how it all stands now.

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What is open source AI?

If you want to jump in and build a chatbot for your business or just for fun, there are a lot of different kinds of chatbot builders to choose from.

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The 6 best chatbot builders in 2024

We tested dozens of options, and these are the best AI photo editors.

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The best AI photo editors in 2024

Here's everything you need to know about how retrieval augmented generation works and why it's important in the world of AI.

What is RAG (retrieval augmented generation)?

Marketing tips

Learn how you can (and when you shouldn't) use ChatGPT to write copy. 

How to use ChatGPT for copywriting and content ideation

Gemini Nano, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Ultra are Google's attempt to play catchup. All three versions are multimodal, which means that in addition to text, they can understand and work with images, audio, videos, and code. 

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What is Google Gemini?

These are the most significant, interesting, and popular LLMs you can use right now.

The best large language models (LLMs) in 2024

Here's every AI image editor you should consider using.

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The top AI image editors in 2024

Large multimodal models are the next frontier of AI, so let's have a look at what they are, how they work, and what they can do.

What is multimodal AI? Large multimodal models, explained

You're probably here because you watched the very impressive and vaguely terrifying demo of OpenAI's new AI model, GPT-4o. It's already rolled out to a lot of ChatGPT users, so let's dig in and see what it can do.

What is GPT-4o? OpenAI's new multimodal AI model family

Let's take a look at small language models, how they differ from large language models, and what they're good for. 

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What are small language models?

 We considered more than 40 of the most popular habit tracking apps—a lot fell short, but after extensive testing, here are the best six. 

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The 5 best habit tracker apps in 2024

Here's how to encourage AI to stop hallucinating.

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What are AI hallucinations and how do you prevent them?

Mind mapping is a powerful creative exercise for brainstorming ideas and finding connections. You start by writing down a central idea or theme, then draw lines branching out into new "nodes," each with their own related idea or theme.

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The best mind mapping software in 2024

Secure and private messaging isn't just for spies, whistleblowers, and revolutionaries. It's an important and powerful tool that everyone should take advantage of. Why let anyone who wants to intercept your messages when you don't have to?

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The best secure messaging apps in 2024

Keeping in touch with friends and family has never been easier. If you have an internet connection, you can send a message to anyone, anywhere, free of charge.

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The 6 best texting apps in 2024

There's something valuable about physically writing something down—or drawing it on a whiteboard.

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The 4 best online whiteboards for collaboration in 2024

It's something you likely do a dozen—if not a hundred—times a day: copy and paste. Here's how to make it easier.

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The 5 best clipboard managers for every device in 2024

ChatGPT is the biggest name in AI chatbots, but it's far from the only one around—and depending on what you're trying to do, it might not even be the best option for you.

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The 8 best ChatGPT alternatives in 2024

Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. Here are the best Canva alternatives.

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The 5 best Canva alternatives in 2024

 I've been using both apps side-by-side for a few months now so let's look at what sets the two tools apart. And most importantly, whether you should use Perplexity AI or ChatGPT.

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Perplexity vs. ChatGPT: Which AI tool is better? [2024]

I've tried every major AI chatbot out there—and written about most of them—and here I'll look at Meta AI and ChatGPT on their own merits and compare them against each other.

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Meta AI vs. ChatGPT: Which is better? [2024]

GPT is a family of AI models built by OpenAI. It stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which is basically a description of what the AI models do and how they work.

What is GPT? Everything you need to know

As you scroll through your Facebook or Twitter feed, what catches your eye: a boring wall of text or a bold, strong image? Obviously, it's the image (photos are clichéedly called "eye-catching" for a reason). 

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The best free graphic design software to create social media posts in 2024

These AI text generation apps will help you work better and faster.

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The top AI text generators in 2024

Email is, in many ways, the hub of modern life. Finding the best email app for your needs is key to a having a more manageable and productive digital experience, whether you're communicating with friends or restoring forgotten passwords.

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The 8 best email apps to manage your inbox in 2024

By using artificial intelligence, these website builders can streamline everything from designing a site and organizing your content into the appropriate pages to actually getting it online. 

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The 4 best AI website builders in 2024

DALL·E will likely be considered one of the most important tech products of the 2020s, and it undeniably kickstarted the current generative AI craze.

How to use DALL·E 3 to create AI images with ChatGPT

Your inbox has more than messages—it's full of data. This is particularly true if you're running a business. Maybe your leads come in via email; maybe that's where certain invoices end up. But you can't do much with this data if it's in your inbox. 

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The best email parsing software in 2024

Whether you live in your inbox or just use it to communicate with those who do, email is going to be a daily part of your work life. And if you use a Mac, one of the best things you can do to improve your experience with email is use a Mac email client.

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The 6 best email clients for Mac in 2024

While Perplexity can't yet replace a traditional search engine, it's surprisingly functional and effective if you work within its limits. Here's what you need to know about it. 

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What is Perplexity AI?

If Docusign isn't the right fit for you, here's a big list of some Docusign alternatives you can use instead. 

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The best Docusign alternatives in 2024

Ever since Google URL Shortener shut down in March 2019, the internet has been searching for the next best option. There’s no single correct answer, as the right service for you ultimately depends on your needs and expectations.

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The 7 best URL shorteners in 2024

Everyone dreams of a paperless office. To be fully digital, however, you need the right tools to electronically send, sign, and store important documents like contracts. That's where eSign apps come in.

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The 6 best electronic signature apps to sign documents online in 2024

A dedicated Pomodoro app removes the need to divide up your day manually—instead, it tells you exactly when to work and when to take a short break. Here's a brief look at how the technique works, along with our picks for the 6 best Pomodoro timer apps.

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The 5 best Pomodoro timer apps in 2024

I considered more than 30 different Instagram schedulers to find the best ones—here they are.

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The best Instagram scheduling apps in 2024

These are the best apps for seeing all your messages—from WhatsApp to Slack—in one unified inbox.

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The best all-in-one messaging apps in 2024

iCloud Keychain and 1Password both have a lot going for them. Here's how they stack up.

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iCloud Keychain vs. 1Password: Which is best? [2024]

When's the last time you didn't read an email you received? Probably within the last 24 hours. How about a text message? Not as common.

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The 7 best SMS apps for small businesses in 2024

Calendars don't need to be complicated—a paper planner can do the job, after all. The best calendar application combines the timeless simplicity of paper calendars with advanced features that make it even easier to keep track of appointments.

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