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It also has a superb Windows version (www.pushbullet.com) that’s been greatly improved recently. But if you’d rather not add another program to your hard drive, you can still use Pushbullet in its own windows on your Desktop by adding its free extension to your browser. Just click the Pushbullet bookmarklet followed by the diagonal arrow next to the cog icon.

Pushbullet has a really useful hidden feature that lets you perform a copy command on one device and then paste the clipboard contents to another it feels like magic! You’ll need to enable it on all your devices, and in both the browser extension and PC program (if you have the latter installed). Just visit the Settings page by clicking the Pushbullet button followed by the cog in Chrome or Firefox,the three-stacked-lines menu button in the Android app, or the cog icon on an iPhone or iPad; then either tick ‘Universal copy & paste’ (Desktop/browser) or flip the switch (mobile apps).

If you use Chrome and have the Pushbullet extension installed, then you can still receive Pushbullet notifications after closing your browser and even without the PC program installed. To enable this, click the Pushbullet bookmarklet in Chrome, then click the cog icon followed by Settings. Now click General and tick ‘Keep Pushbullet running when my browser is closed’. 

The latest version of the Pushbullet PC program has introduced ‘chat heads’. These let you detach multiple conversations or device threads to their own floating windows, just by hovering your mouse pointer over the person or device and clicking the small, diagonal arrow. To collapse a chat head so that it shrinks to an icon, just click its icon  and then drag and drop the icons to wherever you want. This trick also works with the Notifications pane.

If you’ve installed the Pushbullet extension for either Firefox or Chrome and you really should, so grab it from www. pushbullet.com/apps then pushing messages and other content is as simple as right-clicking, pointing to Pushbullet then clicking a device. This works for almost any type of content, from photos and videos to adverts. You can even push whole passages of text: just click and drag to highlight it before right-clicking to push it.

Pushbullet’s great for pushing your own stuff between your devices, but did you know that you can add ‘channels’ to let others push their stuff to you? It’s really simple, too. Click Following, then ‘Follow something’ (or visit www.pushbullet.com/channels); find a channel that tickles your fancy, then click Follow. To unfollow later, just click Following. If you run a website, you can even create your own Pushbullet channels, based on your site’s RSS feeds and keyword triggers. Visit www.pushbullet. com/my-channel, fill in the form and click ‘Create channel’. Other Pushbullet users can now subscribe via the URL in the ‘Share this link’ box, or use the embedding code to add a button to your website. To manage your channels, click Settings followed by Channels.