PushBullet

Android notifications may be coming to Chromebooks, but for the rest of us there's PushBullet. The app lets you pick up notifications from your phone on your Mac or PC, popping up a little box that tells you what is going on, from new emails and texts to incoming call notifications. It allows you to dismiss it from your phone so you don't end up with a rake of notifications that you've already seen. It's a handy little app, but that's not all. Install an extension and you can use it to send links and files from your computer to your phone in an instant. That means notes and memos, photos, addresses and other small things can be sent straight to your phone rather than clogging up your email, and vice versa. A few things: at the time of writing, notification mirroring was only enabled for the Android app, leaving iOS users out. There are also some issues with identifying individual devices when you are using Chrome or Firefox, but a Windows app is available to help solve that for some users.