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If You Could Only Have One AI Assistant, Choose ChatGPT

If there’s only one AI tool you pay for, make it ChatGPT. I’m guilty of letting my SaaS bloat.
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ChatGPT SEO Automation: Create GPT For Tagging & Linking

The scale of blogs that I have been working on has increased significantly, and it has become quite difficult to know what has been done
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ChatGPT vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Swept away by Claude 3.
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What is Artifacts in Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Anthropic’s new feature, Artifacts, is pretty cool because it goes beyond what ChatGPT can d
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Adobe Acrobat AI Review (vs ChatGPT 4o)

I ran the same document and prompts through Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant Assistant and ChatGPT 4o, and I concluded that I’ll stick to
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Reviewing Mozilla Solo AI Website Builder

With Mozilla Innovation Project’s Solo, you can get a website out in record time, but only if you are looking to build a one-page w
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Use ChatGPT For Internal Linking

I recently started managing a new blog and one challenge involved increasing the internal links.
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No, ChatGPT Can’t Do Image Alt Tagging!

I saw a post on LinkedIn saying ChatGPT can help you with writing the alt tags in your images. But it smelled like influencer garbage.
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Can’t Write? Prompts To Write A Business Plan With ChatGPT

ChatGPT can certainly help you create a business plan, but most people get it wrong.
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ChatGPT Can Summarize Articles! (3 Prompts For Great Output)

By just writing one line of text, you can get an article summarized.
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Awful Photoshop Lag on 4K Monitor (Here’s How I Fixed It)

I just bought a 4K monitor and I noticed Photoshop performed much laggier.
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How To Use AI To Write Articles (Using Make & ChatGPT)

Generative AI can automate the manual process of writing content. I produced around 2,000 words for less than 20 cents with GPT-4.
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Pay For SEO Or Do It Yourself?

Can you write? Can you take setbacks? Or would you rather pay someone and see what happens? If you want to DIY your website’s SEO,
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Domain Authority Score in SEO: Examining Its Meaning

If you are new to SEO, you might wonder what domain authority means. In street talk, it’s “rep”.
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SDXL, CFG, Sampling Steps Sweet Spot

I’m trying to find the best CFG-steps combo or the new SDXL 1.0 model. This helps me when I need to create graphics quickly.
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RealVisXL, CFG Scale and Sampling Steps Sweet Spot

If your goal is to generate photorealistic images of people using the RealVisXL model, then here’s what I got for you.
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DIY SEO for Small Businesses (Using Free Tools)

DIY SEO guides are too difficult for business owners.
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My Number One Tip For Combating Distractions When Working From Home

One thing my friend remarked at the start of the work-from-home wave during the pandemic is that his work started “spreading throughout
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How To Teach WordPress (With Two Hours)

My client, Cloud Clinic, reached out to me asking whether I could give their staff a crash course on WordPress.
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Drawing Arrows In Photoshop (I Figured It Out For You)

Drawing arrows in Photoshop is quite difficult compared to doing it in InDesign, XD or Illustrator.
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Limiting WordPress Excerpt Length (How To)

WordPress will present your excerpt in a really ugly way. It’ll remove paragraphs and put it all into a blob.
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YouTube Transcript Summarizer With ChatGPT. Save Lots Of Time.

YouTube videos can be too long.
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Secret Trick To Convert HEIC to JPEG in Gmail & Google Drive

One of my clients sent me some photos in HEIC and not even Photoshop can open it natively.
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Rules for Posting on LinkedIn (Plus ChatGPT Tips)

I recently saw this infographic that summarizes the rules for posting on LinkedIn.
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Will ChatGPT Replace Your White Collar Job?

I’m an AI enthusiast who kinda feels worried about how AI will change the course of our jobs, work and career.
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ChatGPT Data Analysis With Noteable

ChatGPT in Data Analysis Note that the plugin has the name “Noteable”, not “Notable”.
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ChatGPT Web Scraping. Three Methods, Step-By-Step Tutorial

Traditionally, scraping required foundational coding knowledge, but ChatGPT has made scraping data a lot easier.
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I’m not a fanboy, but Raspberry Pi’s future got me worried

The Raspberry Pi represents a life-changing device that I first bought in the late 2010s.
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Is Stable Diffusion Inpaint Obsolete Versus InstructPix2Pix? (Add Glasses to Face)

New tech and methods are always exciting, but I have started to think old methods that endure are still the best.
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The Ultimate ChatGPT Coding Prompt Reviewed

I might have found the ultimate ChatGPT coding prompt.
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Stable Diffusion Tips: My 2024 Mega-List

Instead of writing all my tips into my Notion notebook, I thought I’d create a living document that’s public.
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Stable Diffusion: Saving Your Settings in AUTOMATIC1111

I wrote a post about how to save your default settings in Stable Diffusion and posted it to Reddit.
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Stable Diffusion Automatic1111 Default Settings (No More Manual Work)

Every time I open Stable Diffusion via Automatic1111, I find myself having to set everything again — image dimensions, sampling rat
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Stable Diffusion Poster Creation with Photoshop: Tested Workflow

I believe that Stable Diffusion will allow you to get better images for your marketing posters.
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AI for marketing: free tools that you must use

Ten years ago, grocery stores didn’t have self-checkouts.
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Can’t Draw? Stable Diffusion For Graphic Design (A Guide)

Stable Diffusion is amazing for marketing and other digital professions.
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Can ChatGPT Build A Website?

Yes, and I have just created a “link-in-bio” website. ChatGPT wrote the HTML and CSS.
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Turn Selfie Into Cartoon With Stable Diffusion

If you can’t draw but want a comic book and cartoonish interpretation of yourself, then you have two options.
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Who can build me a website?

Who can build me a website? You can! If you want to.
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Domain vs website: it’s like buying a home

The difference between a domain and a website is similar to ownership of the land and ownership of the house.
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How to make a business card mock up? (Free & No Photoshop)

Creating a business card mockup is a very commonly asked-for product for marketing and communications professionals.
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I hated my journalism job. How I left for the better.

I am in a much better position right now that gives me happiness, stability and freedom.
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Why is Wix and Squarespace so expensive? (What you can do)

A Hungarian friend of mine recently told me that she pays US$500 every year for her Wix subscription. Her website is very simple.
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Stable Diffusion is perfect for marketing (how to use it)

Stable Diffusion is an amazing tool for marketers to generate marketing collateral.
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Web developer vs web designer: who do I need?

If you are looking to build a website, you might be searching for the wrong professional if you don’t know the difference between t
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How to face swap with Stable Diffusion (for marketing)

I write SEO content for a number of professional businesses and therefore I need images which reflect the diversity of their clients.
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Calendly vs Acuity for coaches: multiple bookings and payments

My client works as a coach and needed something to automate her process to allow clients to book and change appointments.
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Build a cloud Raspberry Pi Pico W temperature/humidity logger

I live in a pretty humid part of the world and that has left me worried for some of my valuables.
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4 tools to boost your Raspberry Pi Pico W development

One of the most exciting parts of tinkering with the Raspberry Pi involves seeing the results of your prototype.
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Best way to share 360 photos (plus videos and website embeds)

The Insta360 One X2 is a really good camera, but you really have to get familiar with the software.
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Make cross-cultural communication easier by being accurate

A misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication left me hungry when I recently spent time in Wolfsburg, Germany, where they make Volks
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Avoiding orphan Column Gutenberg blocks in full site editing

WordPress’s new full site editing (FSE) method of building websites has also created some interesting issues.
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Why choose WordPress for website development in Vancouver

One of the questions I ask all the time is “Do you want to be able to edit your own site?” This represents one of the most im
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Strapi vs WordPress: Don’t Make The Wrong Decision

I am a big fan of Strapi and WordPress because they have helped my clients achieve their goals.
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Overlap images using CSS Grid and NextJS/Image

This tutorial works regardless if you use NextJS’s Image component or just a regular img tag.
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How to create images for a website

If you are trying to add content to your own website, you definitely need images.
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Website management for small business (to encourage growth)

If you have a website for your business, website management should rank at the top of your priorities.
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How to create a one page website and host for free (WordPress & Netlify)

If you’re not a web expert and want a low-cost, low-hassle solution, here’s a tutorial on how you can use WordPress and Netli
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How long does it take to create a website?

A common question asked by small business owners is, “How long does it take to create a website.
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How to delete all posts from Facebook page

I created a script that you can run in your console on Facebook that will help you delete all your Facebook posts in a page.
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Portrait photography in Vancouver, BC

Dave Photo shoot for online use Photographed in Trout Lake I photographed Dave at Trout Lake Community Centre.
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Add different time zone clock to desktop taskbar (Windows)

I have a few clients from different parts of the world and I need a clock that can be referred to easily.
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Why is my NextJS site not getting environmental variables?

Because you need to “forward” your environment variables in your .env file into your next.config.js file.
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Guide to putting Strapi behind HTTPS/SSL

In order to put Strapi behind a HTTPS, you need to take some steps.
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Website build process flow

I can build you a website that is fast, responsive and stylish.
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Block access to Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp

Here’s how you can ban Facebook and Instagram from your computer on a Windows 10 PC. The code below also blocks Whatsapp.
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Google sheets as content management system (Helpwithcovid19.ca)

When the COVID-19 shutdowns started occurring, I predicted layoffs coming and if you want peace, prepare for war.
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Arduino Remote Light Switch

Beds are hard to get out of it when you’re settled in, but lights don’t turn themselves off.
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TempIQ: Raspberry pi temperature logger

Does showering with the washroom door open increase room humidity? Does closing the blinds help significantly in retaining heat? I wanted
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