Hooks for Android notifies you about anything
Hooks is a free application for Android devices that you configure to receive custom alerts and notifications for things you are interested in.
The application offers more than 100 different channels that include sports, music, TV, movie, gaming, weather, event, news or tech information.
Setup is easy and straightforward. A tap on the add alert button in the main interface on first run displays the notification creation dialog.
There you can browse all available channels either directly, by search, or by using popular or suggested filters.
Once you have selected a channel, for instance videogame by score, you are taken to the configuration page. There you make selections to customize alerts, for instance platform and score, city and weather conditions, or genre and keyword for new movies on Netflix.
Each alert comes with two notification settings that are both enabled by default. The first activates push notifications, the second audio alerts.
Once you have set up an alert you are taken to a page with suggested alerts immediately. If you have set up a TV show alert for instance, then you will receive other TV show suggestions on that page which you can add to Hooks with just a tap on the add button.
One focus of the app is entertainment but there are other interesting channels available that you may find interesting. This includes Amber alerts, a stock watcher, currency exchange alerts, Horoscopes, online courses or new top articles on popular sites such as Reddit or Hacker News.
There is even an option to add RSS feeds to the app to keep track of sites such as ours (https://www.ghacks.net/feed/) to it to receive information about new articles posted on the site.
Once you have set up your alerts you start to receive them as things happen based on how you configured each individual alert. For instance, you may receive alerts 24 hours before your favorite TV show airs, immediately after a site publishes a new article, or when weather conditions change.
Closing Words
Hooks' greatest strength is the sheer number of channels that it makes available. While you may like its strong focus on entertainment news and notifications, it has a lot more to offer making it an interesting application for all Android device owners.
Alerts are set up easily in the app and there is little that can go wrong during the process. If that happens, you may edit or delete alerts at any time with just a couple of taps in the interface.
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.