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Mar 19, 2015 Pushbullet is a service that lets you quickly send links, notes, files, etc. From your smartphone to desktops, browsers and vice versa. It also has option to mirror your Android and iOS notifications to desktop, letting you receive your phone’s notifications directly on your PC whenever they come. Thus you don’t have to grab the phone to check, who made that missed call or sent you SMS. Nov 03, 2015 Pushbullet may ask for up to 4 permission groups: SMS, Contacts, Phone, and Storage. We work the permissions requests into our setup process and feel this results in a more transparent app. Even though runtime permissions are awesome, they’re not the only new thing in this update. We’ve also made pushing simpler with M’s new Direct Share.
Pushbullet is a service that lets you quickly send links, notes, files, etc. from your smartphone to desktops, browsers and vice versa. It also has option to mirror your Android and iOS notifications to desktop, letting you receive your phone’s notifications directly on your PC whenever they come. Thus you don’t have to grab the phone to check, who made that missed call or sent you SMS. The service and ease of use Pushbullet provides are very unique and excellent. It’s hard to find a better alternative to it.
To use the service, you need to install Pushbullet application your phone and desktop and sign in with same account. Besides Android and iOS, it’s available for both major Desktop platforms Windows and Mac. Pushbullet extension is available for all major web browsers. The popularity of this service pushed the developers to bring it to more platforms. But unfortunately Pushbullet doesn’t have an ‘official’ native desktop app for Linux.
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Though you can use Pushbullet on any desktop platform (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc.) by using Chromium/Chrome or Firefox extensions, some prefer native application. Also, sometimes an application with desktop integration works better compared to browser add-ons. Taking this in mind, an avid Ubuntu user and programmer Lorenzo Carbonell from atareao.es made an application called “Pushbullet Idicator” that bring Pushbullet to Ubuntu and Mint desktop that is enough to consider like an official app.
What is Pushbullet Indicator?
Pushbullet Indicator is a third party Pushbullet application for Ubuntu desktop that lets you send and receive files, links, images and notes between other devices and Ubuntu. It uses Pushbullet API to access all Pushbullet services. The application’s interface can be accessed from Ubuntu Unity panel. It has option to autostart with the system. The push notifications you receive are shown in Ubuntu’s native style. It supports most features as official apps do.
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It also works with Linux Mint Cinnamon. And the author says, it works fine on Ubuntu derivatives Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu too.
It also has companion extensions nautilus-pushbullet and nemo-pushbullet to integrate Pushbullet in File Explorer Context Menu of Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I have provided guides below to install and configure them all.
Before proceeding, make sure you have Pushbullet installed on you phone, signed it and has a working data connection.
Installing Pushbullet Indicator (Ubuntu and Mint)
Open your Terminal (or hit Ctrl+Alt+T to quickly launch it) and type/paste the following commands and hit Enter one after another at each prompt.
Configuring Pushbullet Indicator
After the installation, search for it in Dash or application menu and open it.
It will bring the Preference window. Turn on ‘Allow access to PushBullet‘ by clicking on the switch icon next to it.
It will then bring a Sign in window. Use your sign in method and click Approve when it asks.
After Signing in, set your device name from Device tab. You can also make Pushbullet Indicator autostart with Ubuntu/Mint by turning on Autostart in Main tab. Hit OK after you finish configuring preference. You are almost ready to use Pushbullet on your Ubuntu desktop.
Using Pushbullet Indicator
Looking at the top-right area of your desktop, you will see a Pushbullet icon in panel section in Ubuntu. Clicking on it will reveal the options.
In Mint, it will be at bottom-left side of the desktop.
To send a new push, simply click on the indicator and select the device you want to send to.
Selecting a device will show you Push action window where you compose or attach your file, note, link or photo. Hit OK to send the push. You should see a confirmation notice if the push is sent successfully.
And if you receive a push, you will get a notification like below:
To access a push you received, click on Pushbullet indicator and then choose Show last push. This will open the last push you received. I didn’t find a way to view the earlier pushes of the last push. May be this is a limitation for now.
Limitations
- iOS notification mirroring is not supported yet.
- As of Linux Mint, Cinnamon desktop is only supported right now.
Installing Pushbullet Extension for File Explorer (Ubuntu and Mint)
Pushbullet extension for Nautilus (Nautilus is the former name of the file manager ‘Genome Files’ which is currently used by Ubuntu) and Nemo (a fork of Nautilus, used my Mint) file manager are made as a companion of Pushbullet-indicator. Follow the specific instructions to install them. They are also from the same PPA Atareao. So just use the installation commands.
Installing Nautilus extension (Ubuntu)
Type the following commands into Terminal and hit Enter. The nautilus -q will restart Nautilus.
Now you should see a Pushbullet entry in context menu if you right-click on a file in file explorer. You need to re-approve its authentication separately with Pushbullet. Once you authenticate, again restart Nautilus using the following command:
Now you are ready to use Pushbullet from context menu of files like below:
Installing Nemo Extension (Linux Mint)
Use the following commands into Terminal to install Pushbullet extension for Nemo.
Now open file explorer, right-click on a file and choose Pushbullet > Init Pushbullet and approve it again. Once you approve it, use the following command to restart Nemo again:
Done!
It will integrate Pushbullet into your file explorer’s context menu, bringging more native feel and increase productivity.
I have tested Pushbullet-indicator and file manager extensions on my Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint 17.1 and worked great. Happy using Pushbullet on Linux. Comment your experience with Pushbullet on Linux.
We’ve made a lot of improvements to Pushbullet in the past several months. Unfortuantely, however, many of these improvements haven’t been available in our iOS app. As a small team, we’ve had to consider how we can deliver a great and consistent experience across all of our apps.
To ensure that our iOS app gets all of the latest features, we’ve made some changes to how we build our apps and decided that a new fundation is the best place for the Pushbullet iOS app to grow from. This is today’s update.
Today’s update brings a brand new Pushbullet app to iPhone and iPad.
Our focus in this update is to deliver an excellent core Pushbullet experience on iOS. This means instant and reliable notifications, easy sharing of links and files, and a great Share Extension to share from other apps. We think you’ll also appreciate the fixes and improvements we’ve made as we tried to address as much of the feedback we’ve received as possible.
Take a peek at the new iOS app here:
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We’ve got a lot more coming soon to iOS soon:
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Remote Texting
We’ve put a lot of work into making Pushbullet the best way to send text messages through your Android phone while sitting at your computer or using your Android tablet. We’re working now to bring this same remote texting functionality to iOS.
This will enable those with an Android phone to send and receive text messages while using their iPad (or a spare iPhone if you happen to have one).
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We would love to be able to enable iPhone users to send text messages from their other devices or computers but unfortunately this is not possible.
Remote Files
Late last year we added Remote Files to Pushbullet. Remote Files lets you browse and download files from your other devices from anywhere in the world. This can be a real life-saver when you need a file.
Remote Files isn’t ready in iOS app just yet, but we are working to get it added as soon as possible so keep an eye on our blog and the App Store for updates.
Grab the update from the App Store and let us know what you think!
We’ll be watching the comments below. You can also reach us at [email protected] any time.