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An Android Messaging App That Makes Messaging From Your PC Easy

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While we are working on our computers, laptops, it becomes quite difficult to keep an on our phones, in fact, it cannot be possible to do that with two hands on the keyboard. It’s quite a tough thing to pick up the phone and then go through the various messages, emails that we get. The work gets disturbed. But don’t worry there is an android messaging app that will help to view, respond to the messages from various applications.  And that is the Pushbullet application which will be available for free on Google Playstore. Using this you can message from PC, without having to touch your mobile phone.

Steps to send text messages from your PC Using Pushbullet Messaging App

All you have to do is just install the Pushbullet app from the Playstore on your android phone, tablet or anything. Pick the one Gmail account that you would prefer to use.

Now on your system’s Chrome browser go to Pushbullet.com and log in there with the same Google account that you used for signing in the messaging app on your mobile phone.

You can set up Pushbullet with the same account on as many Android devices as you need, but it is a must to note that you need to select the particular device while you push/send something from your PC/laptop.

After the setup is done, you can easily send texts, addresses, lists, links and files between to android device and PC. Just pick which device you to send and then select the particular file, text, document, folder, link etc.

You can even send files to your friends’ Android devices, using the email addresses of your friends that they have used to sign up this app.

This messaging app thus not only allows you to message from PC but also makes transfer between the devices very easy and quick.

Google’s Messaging App To Come Up With Emoji Reactions In Chat

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Google always tries to streamline its messaging service. In such a recent attempt, it has been trying to bring RCS chat to the users through its old Messaging app on android. Emoji reactions to the RCS messages in the chat is the recent feature that is under the stage of testing in the Messages android app.

Even though Google has been trying a lot to bring in the users, the users have only started to find this feature very recently.

Emoji Reactions

So, for those who are unaware of this feature, this is basically a similar feature to those of the reactions feature on Facebook and Twitter. You just need to long-press on the message that you would like to react to, then you will find a few emojis pop-up on your screen. You can save yourself from long messages by responding to the messages with the help of reaction emojis.

Google hasn’t rolled out this feature to everyone yet, and this feature isn’t even available for beta users.

If the users who got the feature react to a message with an emoji, then the other user who doesn’t have this feature will get a text saying something like ‘ your friend ‘react’ to ‘your message’.

Draw On Your Friends Lock Screen With This Awesome Messaging App

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There are quite a lot of messaging applications available in the Google Playstore for the message addicts. Aren’t you bored of the same old ways of text messaging and voice messaging? Yes Right!!! Here is an awesome messaging app that lets you send a message directly to your friend’s lock screen that they don’t have to open the particular app to view your message.

Messaging App For Lock Screen Conversations

This is a fun way of conversing with the friends, family and even everyone else. The application LokLok is available in the Playstore to download for free. And this application makes the lock screen of those who are connected through this app synchronizable.

LokLok is effectively a synchronized whiteboard, making it as easy as possible to share notes, pictures and random doodles with anyone. Without anyone having to unlock their device.

It basically replaces the Android phone’s lock screen with a plain board that is synchronizable. It allows you to leave notes, drawings directly on your friends’ lock screen.  This app removes all the hassles that one is used to with the traditional messaging apps like unlocking the phone and launching that particular app to view the message sent by their dear ones.

The process to set up the application is pretty simple, all you have to do is install it and then sign up with your details and connect with the people in your contact list and you can be a part of three groups at a time.

LokLok allows the users to doodle on the screen and doodle on pictures, share them with individuals privately, share in groups, or post the messages on social media. The app has a handful of drawing tools that the users can make use of.

So, add fun to your conversations with the help of this awesome and clever messaging app.

Secure messaging from Signal Desktop to your PC

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The quest for a brilliant messaging app by the PC users never ends. They go in search for more and more features which might be obviously needed and go on increasing their list of features that they wish to have day by day. But attention all the PC users we are going to introduce you to an excellent application in this article that will surely be going to impress you.

Signal Desktop is an application that gives more value to privacy while many other applications and companies are trying to steal our personal data by prying their eyes on our conversations and other personal data. The desktop version of this application is available to download for free for Mac and Windows devices as well.

If you look at privacy as your utmost concern for a messaging app, then you can definitely choose to use this application.

You can simply download the desktop version of the application and then pair it with your phone if you have an account earlier and start using it on your desktop. If you have used the chrome app, then you also get the convenience to import your previous conversations and contacts as well.

You can now stop your research and be searching for a brilliantly useful and privacy-oriented messaging application for your desktop. Just download Signal desktop and enjoy all the privacy features and the desktop messaging features at free of cost.

Family friendly messaging app from Disney

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Being a parent you might terrified about your children getting online, they don’t know how to make use of the technology and they might even misuse it. Don’t worry now Disney, the brand that is associated with doing kids friendly activities has now come up with a messaging application that is family friendly.

It has recently introduced Disney Mix the messaging application for those who want to keep their children save from the harms of the internet. The application is Disney Mix, an application that aims to provide safety to the kids online. Yet it’s interface doesn’t look too childish.

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One can only send messages to the other if and only if the other has accepted his/her friend request. To make chats safer it has filters. Inappropriate chats, messages and nay other information will be blocked by these filters and thus making the chat safer for your kids.

If you find anything that violate the guidelines of Disney then you can just report through the whistle icon at the upper right corner of the chat window. And this will even lead to the users temporary or permanent ban from the chat application.

Its not just a text messaging application, it even allows the kids to share stickers and play interactive games with their dear ones. Users can also follow the official Disney accounts on the app.

Though it doesn’t have photo and video sharing as of now, Disney is planning to role out that feature very soon.

Disney Mix application is currently available for android and ios users. So you can download this application and allow your children to have fun while they stay safe.

 

Written By: Satyapriya Buddhavarapu