Silence for Android lets you change sound and system settings on schedule
If you take your smartphone with you wherever you go, you probably encounter several situations in a week where it may be appropriate to change some of the phone's settings. Say you always have a meeting on Friday, a doctor's appointment, dinner with friends, or class at school. While you can keep everything as is and annoy the hell out of people around you, or block yourself from concentrating on the task that lies ahead, you can also turn your phone silent for the time being.
Silence is a free application for Android smartphones and tablets that lets you do that. It basically enables you to add one-time or repeating events that change the phone's functionality in that time. You can for instance disable all sounds on the device on schedule, and turn them back on again after the event, or disable connectivity features like Wi-fi or Bluetooth.
The first thing you may want to do after starting the application for the first time is to tap on the add new event link to start scheduling one-time or repeated events
You get the option to pick events from the calendar or create entire new events on the next screen. If you create an entire new event you are taken to the next configuration screen where you need to set a name, start and end date for the event, date, and whether the event repeats once or multiple times a week.
Once done, you are asked to configure the toggles, that is the changes to the system's sound output and features on the next and final screen of the configuration process. Here you can change ringer and notification, media and alarm volumes for the scheduled time, and set the volume to return to after the scheduled event is over.
On top of that, you can also toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile Data connections and Airplane Mode using the configuration screen.
The developer notes that Airplane Mode is not supported on Android 4.2+ devices, and that mobile data toggling is only supported on Android 2.3 or higher devices.
Verdict
Silence is a handy app for Android device owners that need to modify sound or connectivity settings on a regular basis. Instead of having to do so manually all the time, they only need to be configured once in the app to automate the process.
The app in its current form lacks a couple of features that I'd like to see, like an option to switch to a 24-hour format. According to the author of the app, that is planned for future releases though.
Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.