Happy Tuesday to everyone!

I present a warm welcome to the newcomers of the MetaToolbox newsletter!

We are now at a whopping 1,247 Active Subscribers in this newsletter after a little over a week

with a 55% open rate which is extremely good for a newsletter! 🥳 

Very much proud of what’s being built here 😃 

We have some exciting new AI tools & updates in tech after Apple’s keynote

Apple’s keynote included a lot of new tech including the Apple Vision Pro

They are even dabbling into a little bit of AI

Let’s get started

In the toolbox today:

• 🛠️ 7 fresh out the womb AI tools

• 🍎 Apple AR/VR Headset OFFICIALLY Announced

• 📝 Apple’s New Journal App w/ AI

• 🤖 Google’s AI-Powered Search Advantages for Mobile Gmail Users

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🛠️ Top 7 Trending AI Tools in the Toolbox

• ROAST - improve your dating profile with AI

• Narrated Tours - creates a narrated tour based on the starting & end location of your trip

• TalkBerry - learn different languages by engaging in natural conversations with an AI language tutor

• Codefy - Speed up your coding progress with AI

• CaptionIt - have AI come up with funny, smart, or informational captions for your images

• YouTube Thumbnail Generator - use AI to create custom designed thumbnails in under 5 minutes

• Dumme - creates short form content from YouTube videos
  (Early Access Key: nickismeta)

📝 3 Articles You Should Know About

🍎 Apple AR/VR Headset OFFICIALLY Announced

This isn't exactly AI news, but it's definitely an interesting topic everyone is talking about right now, and it's got me hooked. Apple just made some huge announcements during their keynote this week. They introduced a new 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, and what I would say is their biggest news—the AR/VR headset. There's been a lot of hype around this one, as Apple is the second company to enter the "metaverse" after Meta. It seems like the general public is more receptive to Apple's vision of the metaverse compared to Meta's, which is understandable given Meta's sus reputation.

There's a lot to read about the headset and its features, but I'll give you a brief overview in one sentence.. 👇️ 

tldr; Features sounds cool, but not worth $3499 for the 1st Gen product

I’ve gone into more detail on my Twitter here

📝 Apple’s New Journal App w/ AI

Apple announced Journal, a new app for iOS that will encourage users to keep a daily record of their lives. They want to know what you’re doing and what you’re thinking at all times

• Aims to help users log daily activities

• Part of Apple’s focus on health & wellness

• Utilizes machine learning for personalized suggestions

• Pulls information from contacts, pictures, music, workouts, location data, etc

Not exactly the biggest news about AI for Apple

🤖 Google’s AI-Powered Search Advantages for Mobile Gmail Users

Google is basically trying to make it easier for us to find what we want in older messages or attachments

I keep a lot of info in my emails and I have to refer to the search bar in my Gmail for this. Sometimes it works, and other times I have to search deep within the dark depths of my inbox to find what I’m looking for, and sometimes I’m there for longer than I’d like to be

Speaking of useful email tools, if you forget to respond to emails, I highly recommend this tool Boomerang

You can tell it to resend you an email the morning, 4 days from now, or 2 hours from how. And it’s free. Not sponsored, it’s just one of my most used internet tools

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