The future of work is being shaped by AI, and the creative industries are no exception. From streamlining workflows to sparking new ideas, AI is transforming how creatives bring their visions to life. I’ve compiled five AI tools that I think will be essential for creatives in 2025.
Suno AI
Looking for the perfect custom intro music for your podcast? Suno makes it easy. This AI-powered song maker lets you create original tunes, whether you write the lyrics yourself or use ChatGPT to generate them based on any theme. Just tell Suno what instruments or overall tone you’re looking for, and it will compose a unique track in your desired genre.
I used ChatGPT to write a song about freelancing, business, and my website, cheptiony.com. Afterward, I pasted the lyrics into Suno AI, which quickly composed a beautiful melody with drums and flute. The results were impressive! You can listen to the song here. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!
Watch Video – 5 AI tools to try in 2025.
Microsoft Clipchamp
Microsoft Clipchamp has taken the place of the traditional Windows Video Editor, and while it might be overlooked by some, this app packs a surprising number of powerful features. Beyond basic video editing, Clipchamp allows you to create screencast tutorials with a picture-in-picture view of yourself, and even offers a text-to-speech function with a wide selection of high-quality voiceovers.
Text to speech is my favourite feature. I use it to generate voice overs for any video project that I am working on. Here is the voice over I generated from this app for an ad video.Â
Aside from this, Microsoft clipchamp has several templates that you can use in your video. One downside of Microsoft clipchamp is that it only works when you have your internet connection on.
Adobe Express
Adobe Express empowers you to create stunning visuals and videos from text or images. Beyond that, it simplifies the creation of consistent characters, avatars, and animations. From graphic design and slideshow presentations to video animations, audio generation, text-to-speech conversion, and social media publishing, Adobe Express handles it all.
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, this tool makes content creation accessible. It’s available for free, with a premium version offering additional features.
Gemini AI for Text editing
Struggling with grammar or clarity in your writing? Gemini can help. It offers writers quick fixes and enriches text with helpful context, providing different versions of your work, sometimes even adding details for improved understanding.
I use Gemini to polish the grammar and improve the clarity of my blog posts. My process is simple: after drafting a post, I copy each paragraph, paste it into Gemini, and ask it to rewrite the text. The results are always excellent. I then copy the revised paragraph and replace the original version on my blog.
ElevenLabs is well-known for its impressive text-to-speech capabilities, but they’ve been busy adding even more powerful tools. Beyond just generating speech, they now offer a voice changer feature, allowing you to record your own voice and then transform it to sound like someone else.
In addition, ElevenLabs now offers voice dubbing, voice cloning, and text-to-SFX. I encourage you to visit their website and explore these exciting new additions.
And that is it from me here. I hope you have found this article helpful.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
If you are an entrepreneur or a freelancer, where would you prefer to host your website and business emails, google cloud or other web hosting services?
I have used Google cloud, Google Workspace and Dreamhost web services to host my websites and emails and in this video, I am going to share with you my honest review. Which of these hosting services offers the best value for money? I will approach this blog review by looking at each service value for your money.Â
PricingÂ
How much does it cost to host websites and business email addresses? What features do I get for each listed price? Owing to many service providers in the marketplace, filtering your options using the pricing approach can really save time.
To get this right, you must have basic knowledge regarding web hosting in order to understand the features listed on the pricing table. E.g when they say, Free SSL certificate, what does it mean? Is this among the things you are looking for? With this in mind, let’s begin with Google cloud services.Â
Google Cloud and Google WorkspaceÂ
In order to use Google Cloud Services as an online business owner (with emails and website), you need to subscribe to 2 separate services; google workspace for business emails, file sharing, meetings and more and Google Cloud for hosting your website. These two products are purchased separately.Â
For google workspace, the pricing starts from $6 per user per month. What this means is that you can add one domain(purchased elsewhere; google doesn’t sell domain names) which is main and other domains as aliases. In the main domain, you can only create 1 business email which is treated as a user. Other emails under the same domain or other domain you add are treated as aliases which means you need to login to the main email address to access the other emails.
All your emails will be delivered to the same inbox. This is not really good if you have employees who you want each one of them to have their independent business related email address.Â
One cool thing about Google Workspace is that you have access to many other google services including 30GB of storage space for the starter pack. Also email deliveries to your inbox are fast. Still on the emails, if an email is sent to you via a wordpress website page, it will not be delivered to your inbox.
I guess it’s filtered as spam. Sadly it’s not even delivered to the spam folder. It’s totally lost. To fix it you need to follow a very long procedure. To avoid trouble, I decided to embed Google Forms on my WordPress site to avoid problems.Â
If you have to host your websites on Google Workspace, you are only limited to having your website designed with Google Sites or Blogger.
If your website is designed with WordPress or other web design services, then you will need to go for the Google Cloud. This is a separate google service for hosting all other tech related services like websites, apps, SaaS apps and more.
You pay based on your usage which varies from time to time. For example, I have a small WordPress website and on my first month after all the discounts, I got billed $12, which I find very expensive considering this is only one WordPress website with less than 1000 visitors a month.
Also this bill has discounts already applied. Without discounts, I will have paid $40 for the one month. This is expensive compared to other hosting services. But the speed is unmatched. It’s very fast.Â
It’s important to note that google cloud requires that you have some experience designing with cloud services. Setting up requires that you fill and complete several admin modules before you start a project.
So, in other words, on a normal month, this service alone will cost $46 when you include google workspace for emails. Is this amount within your budget? Remember it may be even more for Google cloud depending on your usage.
Now let’s compare this with Dreamhost web hosting services.
DreamHost Web Hosting ServicesÂ
When you subscribe to Dreamhost, you get everything under one package for the shared hosting. In this I mean, you get unlimited business emails for you and your staff, host unlimited websites and more. This is all offered in one place. You don’t have to pay separate bills for the services compared to google products.
Setting up email addresses and websites is easy. Dreamhost has almost every web design installer like wordpress, drupal, Joomla and more readily available on their cpanel. All these installers are free to use once you purchase a package from them.
Unlike Google, Dreamhost hosting services sell other products like storage and document services separately. In fact they actually resell google products. This does not change anything because you can access the same products for free when you have a gmail account. Same case with Office360, you only need a Microsoft user account.
Now, when it comes to cost, there is a huge variation. If you are a new customer, you get the service at a discounted price. For existing users, you pay $13.99 per Month or $155 a year for the shared hosting. They have no hidden fees. This is a friendly price to anyone running an online business.
Also, emails sent to you by users via the contacts pages of your website are delivered to your inbox. This is another win.Â
Summary of the Comparison
Service ComparisonÂ
Google Cloud and Google WorkspaceÂ
DreamhostÂ
Pricing
Expensive – Its not fixed.You can pay up to $46/month for 1 website and 1 user account for emails.
Cheap – From $13.99/month for shared hosting.
Email Hosting
Business emails are billed per user. Billed extra for additional users. Free email aliases.
You get unlimited business emails Included in the main package. No aliases.
Website Hosting
Free hosting for google sites and blogger sites. Hosting other sites like wordpress is billed according to the disk usage which can be expensive.
You host unlimited websites. No limit on the number of websites you can host.
File sharing and storage
Upto 30GB and free file creation tools
No file sharing services or file creation tools
Customer service
Automated support for starter package. Very difficult to get help unless you reach out on their X page.
24/7 customer support services
User experience
Google workspace- Very easy and user friendly. Google cloud – Takes time to understand and use.Needs experienced cloud engineer.
Very easy to use once you have everything set up.
Speed
Very fast. 0 downtime. SSD disks.
Very fast. SSD disk storage.
Table summary of comparison between Google cloud, Google Workspace and Dreamhost Webhosting
Conclusion
As you can see, website hosting service providers like Dreamhost still wins in terms of cost, user experience, customer service, and email hosting. Google is still expensive for users with static websites. They need to find a way to merge google workspace and google cloud if they desire to serve small business owners like myself who need both email and web hosting services in one place.Â
With this said, I hope you found this article helpful. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.
Video: Unlock Your Superpower: Free AI Tools for Creators, Freelancers, and Bosses in 2024
Sometimes as a creator or a freelancer, you feel stuck,,I mean you want to do cool stuff like write blog posts and design fancy graphics, but you lack the inspiration.
Well, I have good news for you! You can try using AI to boost your creativity. And guess what? Most of the AI tools available out there today are FREE! In this video, I will show you secret tools that can make you a content creation champion, a freelance superhero, or even a boss-level business builder.
Writing is a skill that can be enhanced with the help of artificial intelligence. There are many free AI tools for writing that can assist writers in various tasks. These tasks include generating ideas, correcting grammar, improving style, and more.
Some examples of these tools are Copilot, Bard, and ChatGPT. All of these AI tools are free.
Copilot
You can use Copilot for free on Microsoft edge browser. Install Microsoft Edge browser on your computer first, if you don’t already have it installed. To get started, open Microsoft edge browser and to the far right, you will see a blue round icon. That is the copilot logo. Click on it to open. Here you have 3 options. The first one is the chatbot version. With the chat feature, you can ask the Copilot any question and it will be able to give you an answer.
For example, I will ask copilot to code for me a simple calculator app that I can install on windows. And within seconds, I have the code that I can paste on visual studio for further modification. This is helpful to every tech person.
The second option is the compose feature. This is an ideal feature for writers. You can use this to write different types of content. You can compose content in different tones, formats and length.
The last option is insights. This for researching trending content online and discovering new things. .
All of these options are good and can help one craft powerful content.
Gemini
You can access bard on gemini.google.com. You will be required to login using your Gmail email address. Gemini is basically good for everyone, especially writers. With the help of Gemini, writers can come up with engaging stories and characters. Gemini uses natural language processing and deep learning to generate plot outlines, character descriptions, dialogue, and more.
It is important to mention that you can use bard for anything. For example, lets say you are applying for a job in a certain company, let’s call it company C. And you don’t have time to write a cover letter. Gemini will do the job for you. Just instruct Gemini to write a cover letter to company C for the position advertised. Tell Gemini to mention that you have the skills needed listing them one by one. Gemini will do exactly as you have instructed. Here is an example of a cover letter.Â
ChatGPT
Nearly everyone knows of ChatGPT. It is a product of OpenAI and utilizes chatbots to generate accurate responses. This tool can help writers create conversational texts and chatbots. Also, those in tech can ask GPT chatbot to help them with coding.
You can access chatGPT on Openai.com.
Microsoft Designer
If you are looking for free AI tools to design posters, social media GIFs, YouTube thumbnails and more, you might want to check out Microsoft Designer. Microsoft Designer is a web-based application that lets you create stunning graphics with the help of AI.
You can choose from hundreds of templates, customize them with your own text and images, and download or share them online. Microsoft Designer also offers smart suggestions and tips to improve your design. Whether you need a flyer, a logo, a banner or a meme, Microsoft Designer can help you create it in minutes.
Use AI Tools To Write Social Media Memes!
Tired of struggling to come up with funny captions for your memes? Or are you tired of designing memes on Photoshop? Well, Copilot, ChatGPT and Bard AI can save the day!
Yes, these AI tools are now helping everyone create awesome memes that make people laugh out loud.
Just tell them a funny story or what’s trending online, and they’ll come up with hilarious captions that will make your friends say, “OMG, how did you come up with that?!”
Memes are not just about the LOLs. Memes can also be used to make important points about the world, spread awareness about cool stuff, or even teach people new things. Imagine using AI to make science memes that are actually funny, or memes that get people talking about important issues. That’s pretty amazing, right?
So, get ready to ditch those old-school meme makers and embrace the power of AI. Just remember to use your meme powers for good, not evil!
Wow, we just explored through a universe of free AI tools that can make 2024 your most epic year! From writing like a wordsmith to designing stunning graphics, AI is your secret weapon for crushing deadlines, conquering content, and building a business that rules.
If you need help to create content using any of these tools, let me know here.
Remember, you are the hero of your own story, and these AI tools are here to help you out.
Up until next time, bye bye and take care. My name is Cheptiony Mutai.
Video- How to Speed Up a Computer or Laptop That Slows Down When Connected to Internet
In this video tutorial I am going to show you how speed up a computer or a laptop that slows down when connected to internet.
There are several reasons why a computer or laptop slows down when connected to internet. One of them is due to windows update. Another common reason is because of startup apps. So where do you start in order to fix your computer speed?
Start By Checking Startup Apps
This is the best place to start especially if your computer slows down when starting up. This is usually caused by apps you have installed in your computer trying to connect to their servers and check for updates. This applies to all apps including the ones that you have cracked or downloaded and installed from torrent sites.
You will need to disable all these apps on start up. To do this go to start and type âtask managerâ on the search bar. Alternatively, right click on the task bar below your windows and select task manager. On the window that opens click on startup tab. Here you will be able to see all the apps that opens when you start your computer. If you see an app that you rarely use but has high startup impact, right click on it and select disable on the drop down.
Disable all apps that you know will not affect the operating system on startup. When you do this, you computer startup time will decrease tremedously owing to the changes.
Also, the apps disabled will stop running on the background when there are not in use. If this doesent work, you can check the following step.
Check If Your Windows is Updating
All windows usually detect internet connection and attempt to update the operating system. This is done on the background. Your computer or laptop will slow down depending on the number of files being updated.
To check if this is what is causing your computer to slow down, go to start and search for âcheck for updates.â Click on it to open. This window will open where you will see all ongoing windows update.
If this is consuming your mobile data or is slowing your internet speed, you can pause it till you finish what you were doing first then enable it again. Windows updates are necessary for security purposes. If your computer is still slow after taking the actions above, try reviewing all the files you downloaded via torrents and unistall them. Most of them run on the background.
To unistall unecessary software from your computer, go to start, and search for apps & features and click on it. From here, you can see all the apps installed in your computer. Click on the one that you do not recognize to select and click on unistall.
Not all files downloaded via torrent sites are good. Most of them come with virus of which the moment your connect to internet, it starts downloading and installing other softwares to your computer.
I hope you found the video helpful.
Until next time, bye bye and take care.
My name is Cheptiony Mutai. Follow me on X @cheptiony.
Watch Video – Top 5 Kenyan Services You Can Access Online Today
Video Transcript
Many Kenyan Government services are now available online following the recent launch by President William Ruto. You can access them anywhere as long as you have a good internet connection.
In this video, I will show you my top 5 picks of government services you can access online. Stay tuned.
Tax Services
You can access almost every tax service online from applying for a Tax PIN number to filling your tax returns. All tax services are accessible via the portal itax.kra.go.ke. To access this service, you must have a PIN number. You can access many features once you are logged in to the portal.
Aside downloading a copy of your PIN certificate, you can also make changes of your contact information and Tax address online. While some services are subject to approval, you are a rest assured that you will be served online without having to visit Tax offices for resolution. They have customer service hotline that you can call and get live assistance on your request.
Most of their communications are done via e-mail. So if you have penalties as a result of not filling returns, Your Tax account administrators will send you e-mails reminding of the same so that you can fix it before its too late.
When you login to your account, you can see everything regarding to your Tax account from past payments, your tax station, your tax obligations e.t.c.
It is important to mention that companies can check validity of a PIN number or TAX compliance on the portal. Some people submit forged documents and itax portal offers a solution to this problem.
Business Registration Service
If you are planning to start a business in Kenya, its recommended that you register your business name to make it legal. This is where Business Registration service (BRS) comes in. Government is now striving to get everyone to register their business for the purposes of accountability and tax compliance.
Another reason why government is striving to register every business is for security purposes. They want to ensure that everyone is operating a legal business. You can access this service on www.brs.go.ke. To login, you will need to use your e-citizen login credentials.
Once you are logged, you can start registering your business. Anyone can register a business online from local Kenyan residents to foreigners who are looking to invest in the country.
The cost of registering a business varies starting from Ksh. 950 to 20,000. Visit BRS portal for details.
It is important to note that you can initiate the closing of a company online.
Renewal of Driving license.
Has your driving license expired? You can apply for renewal online. This service is accessible on serviceportal.ntsa.go.ke via Ecitizen. Aside the driving license, you can apply for other services like Drivers PSV badge, endorsement PDL, instructor license, smart driving license, personalized plates as well view records of the vehicles you own.
Apply for a Passport
You can apply for a passport online for the first time or renew your existing passport. This service is accessible via the portal dis.ecitizen.go.ke. Additionally, you can make interstate pass applications, temporary permit application, evisa application, work permits, endorsements, student pass and special pass.
Just sign up first on Ecitizen then login to the portal to access this service.
Apply for your birth certificate.
Have you lost your birth certificate, or you donât have one and you are required to provide one somewhere? Its now easy to apply for one online via dcrs.ecitizen.go.ke. To complete your application you will need to fill a form and then attach copies of;
Birth notification
National ID, passport
Scanned copy of parents identification documents.
This service costs only 180 shillings. When your application is processed successfully, you will be notified via SMS.
And those are my top 5 picks of Kenyan government services you can access online. There are over 5000 more government services you can access online. Just visit eciziten.go.ke and search for the service you are looking for.
I hope you found this video helpful. Until next time, bye bye and take care.
When people hear Artificial Intelligence(AI), what comes to everyone’s mind is ChatGPT by OpenAI because many people are currently using it. From college and university students using it to do their homework, to bloggers using it to write blog content. AI is the new goldmine and is here to stay.
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But lets shift our focus today a little bit and look at free AI tools that we have with us on our phones and computers. Many people just see them on their phone or computer but they don’t know how powerful they are.
That’s what I am going to share with you on this blogpost.
Google lens is an app that comes preinstalled on every android phone. Many people don’t know how utilize it for productivity. When you open Google Lens on phone, it just start the camera and displays images from your gallery below.
On top just below the camera, you can see the menu tittles. These are things you can do with google lens.
You can translate text from an image, you can search online using images, you can take photos of your homework questions and google will answer it for you, you can take a photo of a product and google will show you the price of the product on different outlets that sell it and with location setting enabled, you can take a picture of a signboard in the place you are in and google lens will tell you where you are.
In this review, I will demonstrate to you how to simply copy text from an image using google lens without typing it. It doesn’t matter if the text was written by hand or typed; google lens will do the job of copying and converting it to typed text that you can edit.
I have some notes hand written on my book here. Instead of typing them, we will use google lens to type it. So I will point the lens on the page where the text is, and google lens will highlight the text and prompt me to choose the action I want with the text selected.
In this case, I will select ‘text’ menu then select copy text on the new window. The text will copied to clipboard. Open google docs or a word processing app on phone and paste it there.
As you can see here the text is copied and pasted. From here I can easily edit.
Another way you can copy text is from an image on your phone. Select the image with text that you want to copy. Google lens will select the text. Tap on copy and it will be copied to clipboard. From there, you can paste it where you want e.g. on google docs, on e-mail e.t.c.
Google lens has a total of six things you can do with it and will safe you a lot of time.
When you install Microsoft Edge browser on your computer, it comes with Bing Chat. Bing is an AI-powered search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. Bing chat is an AI feature within the browser that works like ChatGPT but its free. No login is required.
Bing chat appears at the far top right corner on the Edge browser. Click on it to open.
Bing chat has three features; chat, compose and insights. This a a very powerful tool for anyone in the communications business.
You can use this to write various communication messages like website landing page content, social media posts, cover letters e.t.c. To remain unique, always know which feature to use when.
Since most people are familiar with the chat feature based on their past experience with chatGPT, I will explore the compose feature in order to give an idea of how AI can positively change the tone in which you communicate for good.
When you open this feature, you will realize that it gives you 3 choices that you need to pick after keying in your idea on what you want it to write. Among these choices include tone, format and length.
With compose feature you can write basically anything. Just type in the keywords of what you want it to write and chose the tone, format and length and Bing chat will give you the results.
So far, from my experience, the compose feature does a perfect job. Just think of anything, and ask it to compose it for you. It will phrase it so well that you will be happy to post and share.
Conclusion
AI is a powerful tool that can help you create, communicate and collaborate. But it also comes with some challenges and responsibilities. You need to be aware of how AI works, what it can and cannot do, and how it might affect your audience.
You need to use AI wisely and ethically, and make sure that what it presents to you reflects your intended message. Don’t rely on AI blindly. Always check, edit and improve its output.
AI is not a substitute for your own creativity and critical thinking, but a partner that can enhance them.
And that is it.
Have you embraced AI in your communications? If not, what is preventing you from taking advantage of it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
And if you need professional help in building vibrant digital media and communication channels for your business that you can rely on, don’t hesitate to reach out to me here. I will be glad to help.
Video Tutorial – How to Apply for A CDS Account Online And Begin Trading in Government Securities
Unlike in the past where it would take one 14 days to get a CDS account ready after making an application, the process now takes 2-5 days, and one can do it at the comfort of their phone or a computer with internet connection.
This is all made possible with DhowCSD, a new product from the central bank of Kenya. When you have a CDS account, you can start investing in government treasury bills and bonds.
In this video tutorial, I will take you through the process of applying for a CDS account now called CSD with dhowCSD online.
I hope you will find this video helpful. Share your thoughts in the comments section below. Â
And if you are looking for help to develop and produce video content for your business on budget, I can help you. You can reach out to me on my business website here.Â
