#FOR ANDROID INSTAL PUSHBULLET HOW TO#
#FOR ANDROID INSTAL PUSHBULLET WINDOWS#

In a nutshell, you can send texts from the convenience of your Windows desktop and they'll be sent via your phone. That said, the Windows desktop app does support SMS messages with Android phones (and that capability might be coming to iPhone users as well according to some teasers from Pushbullet). Pushbullet isn't quite that sophisticated. Pushbullet makes it all elegant and effortless.Īpple's Continuity, of course, lets you take phone calls on your desktop and see your iMessage texts there as well. All this might not sound like much, but if you've ever scrambled to get links or files from your phone to your desktop, or the other way around, you know how annoying it is to shuttle data around via email. The app also lets you send files, like documents or photos, as well as brief text notes from the desktop to your phone. The same process can be used for pushing files too.Sharing links is just one way to use Pushbullet. A window will then pop-up allowing you to push to any of your devices. You can also do this from your photo gallery by tapping the share button on the photo you want to share, and select “A new push”. This is where you can “push” pictures to devices. This can also be done from your desktop browser by clicking the Pushbullet icon at the top, choosing the device you want to “push” to and selecting “Link”, where you can then paste the web address. Pushing a link can be very useful when you’d rather view a certain webpage on another device at a different time. I chose to share the above message with “all of my devices”. Pushing a note can easily share a quick message between devices with Pushbullet. When tapping the “+” button, you are given the options of pushing a note, link, photo or file.

#FOR ANDROID INSTAL PUSHBULLET HOW TO#

Let’s check out what you can “push” and how to do it. This is just a side feature of Pushbullet, however.

Once you do, you can not only see text messages from your desktop screen, but you can reply to them or dismiss them as well right from Windows or Mac. This requires a certain permission from your phone’s settings to enable this. To enable “Notification Forwarding” to your desktop, you’ll see the option in the slide out menu on the left side of the app. You’re just about ready to go! You can add devices to “push” to in the Android app or on your web browser. This extension is used for pushing items such as links, pictures, etc. from your desktop browser to any of your other devices. So, on your desktop computer using a compatible web browser that supports plugins, such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari and go to the Pushbullet extension page which you can click here for Firefox or here for Chrome.ĭownload the extension and a Pushbullet icon will be added to the top of your browser. To actually use Pushbullet, you’re going to want another device to actually “push” items to. Then, install Pushbullet here at the Google Play Store. The first step is creating a Pushbullet account on their webpage here Sound pretty cool? It’s very easy, and I’ll explain how to do all of it.

Another great feature of Pushbullet is the ability to mirror notifications from your smartphone to your desktop so you can see alerts from your phone without having it nearby, and then also have the ability to interact with them all from your desktop. Or maybe you’re reading a web article on your desktop when you suddenly need to leave, and decide to “push” that web address to your smartphone to read on the go. For example, you take a really awesome photo on your phone that you want to quickly send to your laptop.

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