Push Android Notifications to Your Pc

[MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome to "Tekzilla Bites," feeding your tech hunger fast. I'm Shannon Morse. Now have you ever left your phone in another room on vibrate, only have five people call you all at the same time? And you're on your computer and not paying attention to the darn thing. Yeah. That's happened to me too. Several times. Well, there is an answer to these problems, though, in the form of an app. It's called Pushbullet, and it's available on Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome OS. It's also available on Android 4.1 and higher mobile devices. Now this is how it works. Pushbullet is an Android app that will send you Push notifications over to your PC Chrome notifications area. You install Pushbullet on your phone and set it up with your most used Google account. You can tell it that you want to push notifications to your PC. Now go to Pushbullet.com on your computer and sign up for an account using your same Google account. Once you're signed in, you go directly over to the little Chrome icon and add the Chrome widget. Now you have both Chrome on your PC and Android logged into the same account on Pushbullet in both places, it can start sending your messages to your Chrome notification center. Now you'll start noticing the windows pop up for a few seconds and then disappear whenever you have a new message, an email, a chat and a missed call. Click and close will make them disappear and clicking on them will open Gmail if it's an email. You can also push messages to and from your device by using the Pushbullet widget icon and opening up your inbox. Now you can also download the executable file from the site to use Pushbullet directly from your computer-- not just Chrome. However, I would steer clear of that for a while because that .exe file is bringing up a malware detection in certain antivirus software. And that's not good. If you want to disable mirroring, you can click dismiss mirrorring on the notification. You can also click dismiss on device to make a notification disappear on both Android and computer. Clearing notifications on Android also clears them on your PC. If you want to change your settings, you can do that by right clicking the extension icon and choosing options. And that's about it. Pushbullet is really easy to use, and it saves me the work of unlocking my phone every single time I have an update. Now, keep in mind, though, these notifications show up right there on your PC screen. So anything will be there for wandering eyes to see. So basically make sure that you lock your computer anytime you walk away. Very, very important privacy. Now while you're at it, check out some sweet audio books on Audible. If you haven't read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, I highly suggest it. It's a great cyberpunk novel set in the not-so-distant distant future. And it's so good. Audible.com is the leading provider of downloadable, digital audio books and spoken word entertainment. You can go to AudiblePodcast.com/Tekzilla to get a free audio book download of you choice when you sign up today. For more from Tekzilla hit up YouTube.com/Tekzilla or Tekzilla.com. And if you liked Pushbullet, perhaps you'll enjoy a hovering browser for your Android phone as well. I'm Shannon Morse. Thanks for watching. [MUSIC PLAYING] [TV STATIC NOISE] [CRASH] Oh my god. [TONE] [TV STATIC NOISE]