Todays update adds creating your own notification tones, setting custom durations for muting chats or auto-deleting messages, as well as supercharged bots ready to outshine any website, improved forwarding that preserves replies, and a lot more.
You can now turn any sound into a notification tone, creating custom alerts from your favorite music or even memes (and meows). Tap a short audio file or voice message in chat to instantly add it to your list of notification sounds, which you can assign to any chats.
For years, Telegram users have been able to temporarily mute chats to take a break from notifications, like for 8 hours or 2 days. Now you can also pause notifications for a specific duration, like the length of a midday nap or extended vacation.
Telegram was the first app to make replies easy and efficient to navigate (2015). Swipe left on any message to reply to it. Your reply will include a small preview you can tap to instantly jump to the original message.
Since 2015, millions of people have utilized bots to convert files, shop online and even pay their taxes. Telegram bots already support seamless authorization, processing payments via 15 integrated payment providers (with Google Pay and Apple Pay out of the box), collecting feedback, delivering tailored notifications to users, and much more.
Today we're adding an entire new dimension, giving bot developers the tools to create infinitely flexible interfaces with JavaScript, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. With this, Telegram bots can completely replace any website.
Telegram bots can also handle small tasks like chat management by adding extra features, automating processes or helping moderators. Users can now quickly add bots to their group or channel right from the bot's profile and instantly configure rights and permissions for the bot.
Vacationing in a different time zone is exciting, but it's also exhausting. Whether you're traveling three hours ahead of your usual schedule, or 12 hours, the time difference typically hits hard by screwing with your body's internal clock, making you exhausted at odd hours.
Though our bodies know when to sleep and when to wake based on sunlight, there's another internal clock at play within us: our food clock. When we get hungry, our body keeps up awake in an attempt to help us secure a snack. As soon as you begin eating again, your system will think it's sitting down to breakfast, no matter what time of day it is. Just one 12-hour period of skipping meals can override your current sleep-wake cycles.
Think dreams are beyond our control? Your favorite, comfiest sleeping position is actually dictating what you experience while grabbing some shut eye, so if you suffer through the same dreams every night, you might want to consider rolling over.
Dr. Mehmet Yucel Agargun discovered via his research that each sleep position leads to different dreams. Those who love to sleep on their left side typically experience a higher number of nightmares than right-side sleepers. Dr. Calvin Kai-Ching Yu, meanwhile, found recently that sleeping facedown on your stomach will cause exciting, possibly even erotic dreams.
Like a little variety in your dreams? Roll onto your back and sleep face up. This position might cause you to snore a little more, which could lead you to wake up more frequently in the middle of the night, but all that shifting in your sleep patterns will lead to unpredictable dreams. Back sleepers report having varied dreams that feature many different subjects and genres.
You have even more control over your dreams if you're conscious of them while they take place. If you want to dictate what happens while you're out for the night, try lucid dreaming. This state occurs when you're body is deep in sleep paralysis, but your mind is awake and running free.
It isn't exactly easy to jump into lucid dreaming; it takes a bit of preparation. You can, however, train your brain to slip into a state of lucid dreaming more easily and frequently. Try keeping a dream journal in which you take note of everything you remember from the night's slumber.
Who doesn't need a sleep break in the middle of the day? Learning to live without naps might sound difficult, but if you're a lengthy napper you might be harming your productivity, focus, and sleep schedule.
Australian researchers discovered that limiting nap time to 10 minutes is best. Though that might sound like a total waste of napping, those few minutes will reinvigorate your brain and keep you productive.
However, when you slip into sleep for longer periods in the middle of the day, the researchers point out that you'll feel groggy and even sleepier than before the nap. So, cut your hour-long naps down considerably, and you'll feel better than ever.
According to Luise Reyner and James A. Horne, who conducted research on reducing drivers' sleepiness, drinking a cup of coffee before crashing on the couch is more effective than doing just one of the two. Hitting the caffeine right before trying to fall asleep might sound counterintuitive, but you're actually giving yourself a head start on those post-nap benefits.
If anxious thoughts keep your brain churning even after the lights are out, try turning on a sound machine with white noise. You can also use hypnosis to forget about your worries and lull yourself into a calming sleep.
Get sweaty when you sleep? Solve that problem and get to sleep faster by taking everything off and jumping into bed naked. Cooler temps are perfect for leading our brains and bodies to prepare for sleep. Taking a cold bath or shower, while goosebump-inducing, also has the same calming effect.
Finally, if you're a late-night snacker, keep up the habit! Just select the right foods, and you'll knock out in no time. Cheeses, including Parmesan and cheddar, pork chops, sunflower seeds, and potatoes are all foods that can get you snoring. If sweets are more your style, go ahead and try a chocolate bar before bed to enjoy the same effects.
Finding the perfect pillow is key to enjoying the hours you spend asleep. While you might not be as picky as Goldilocks, selecting and setting your pillow properly can either lead to stiff necks or a refreshed mindset in the morning.
We're all guilty of pulling all-nighters, whether we're college students or 9-to-5 business types. While skipping sleep usually leads to a rough morning filled with gallons of caffeine, there's a hack that can turn just two hours of sleep into a full day's worth of energy: the Uberman Sleep Schedule.
No, the Uberman Schedule won't turn you into a sleepless uber-human. It will, however, maximize the sleep you get, and allow you to have more time every day. Rather than snuggling with your pillow for eight hours each night, you subsist on naps alone.
It might sound like an exhausting schedule, but it both offers you bursts of energy and gives you more waking hours to get things done. Your body will take some time to adjust, and it won't be pleasant. But once you adapt to this new, limited sleep cycle, you'll be able to power through more than ever before.
Hearing the shrill shrieks of any alarm clock is enough to send anyone into panic mode. There aren't many people who enjoy waking up with a blast of noise to their eardrums, and it turns out alarm clocks can ruin even the best night's sleep.
Rather than relying on your phone's ear-splitting ringtones to wake you each morning, research by Jan Born suggests that it's best to train your body to rise without a single sound. Our bodies are designed to wake us up painlessly, and our internal clocks are a more accurate measure of when we've had enough sleep. Within our brains lies a group of nerves that determine our circadian rhythm. This unseen clock tells us when it's time to call it a night, and when we need to crawl out of bed.
Much like any other clock, it runs on a repeated cycle each day. The more you stick to a set schedule, the better your circadian rhythm becomes at helping you both fall asleep and wake up. If you head to bed and wake up at the same time every day, your body adapts to the routine and adjusts your hormones as necessary. This automated adjustment increases your ability to rise on your own, easing you from deep sleep into a gradual wake up, and it means you successfully obtained enough sleep, whether or not you hit the eight-hour mark.
Waking up without the cries of an alarm clock helps you keep that internal clock running smoothly, and makes you less of a grump in the morning. By sticking to a schedule, no matter what day of the week it is, you'll wake up happier and easier.
Try out these sleep hacks, and your entire body will thank you. Not only will you achieve better sleep each time you close your eyes, but you'll make the most of those nighttime (or daytime) hours. And if you have a smartphone or tablet, make sure you're setting it to the right color levels while you're in bed to make sure it doesn't keep you up at night!
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Anyone who's ever woken up to that sharp, shrill tone knows how sick and twisted Apple was for choosing it as the default. People on TikTok say these "bells of hell" trigger their fight-or-flight response and make their dogs flinch. My parrot lets out a "Danger!" screech whenever he hears it. I would argue that it's the Wario of Samsung phones' sing-songy default alarm.
Most tones that consistently yank you out of a state of unconsciousness can become annoying over time (it's a Pavlovian thing), but one expert says there are several reasons why Radar elicits such negative responses.
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