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I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to

by harel 14y ago

I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone. Edit: Still a cool extension you've got there! Not taking anything away from it.

felixthehat 14y ago
You mean like pastefire, the browser plugin that sends text to your iPhone clipboard, that I've been using for years ;) http://pastefire.com/ http://pastefire.com/
jdotjdot 14y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing that Apple will likely implement one day as seamless integration is their speciality.
- kaolinite 14y ago
  They haven't done anything with text yet but there's iCloud Tabs for URLs. Anything you have open in Safari is available on your iPhone/iPad too and anything on those devices is available by clicking the cloud icon in Safari.
the_mitsuhiko 14y ago
And just for the record: for firefox users there is fox to phone: http://www.foxtophone.com/ http://www.foxtophone.com/
pdeuchler 14y ago
Chrome for iOS does this job beautifully :)
- lepht 14y ago
  Indeed. If only it weren't stuck with a slow js interpreter.
  - hnriot 14y ago
    yes, chrome on iOS is unsable because of this. I'd love to use Chrome more, but even lightweight js sites are tediously slow on chrome/ios
    - lepht 14y ago
      Not just the javascript either, Chrome becomes horrendously slow with week wifi signals where Safari is fine. For some reason only Apple apps can do the 3G/LTE/Wifi request pooling magic that they added in iOS 6.
    - archagon 14y ago
      Unusable?! I've been using Chrome on my iPhone 4 for the past week and I haven't noticed a significant difference.
    - pravka 14y ago
      jailbreak + nitrous. problem solved. :)
      - lepht 14y ago
        Did that for a few weeks, and the Chrome performance boost was nice. I had to jail-unbreak though because stability was horrid for me, with applications constantly crashing :/
  - pdeuchler 14y ago
    I jailbroke my phone and installed the Nitrous addon to give all apps access to the Nitro engine. Though, i'll admit it's not an option for everyone.
  - harel 14y ago
    iOS is so last decade :)
ckarmann 14y ago
Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.
- kalmar 14y ago
  You can do this if you use Chrome on your phone, and are signed in with sync enabled. The tabs on your phone are accessible from the 'New Tab' page on you desktop and vice versa. On desktop Chrome, there's a little 'Other Devices' drop down at the bottom; on Chrome for Android, there's a button with a pair of arrows at the bottom right.
  - ckarmann 14y ago
    That's great! Thank you.
  - danielweber 14y ago
    Can that work in one direction? I have dozens of tabs open on my desktops, and I don't want to punish my phone with that.
    - tobyjsullivan 14y ago
      It doesn't open the tabs automatically. Your tabs open on your desktop are listed essentially like bookmarks on your phone. You choose to open them or not at any given time. The feature is enabled by default so if you're using Chrome already (on both devices, with your Google account), then it's likely already syncing (and clearly not punishing your phone).
- jmhobbs 14y ago
  Also check out Push Pop - http://pushpop.herokuapp.com/ http://pushpop.herokuapp.com/
8ig8 14y ago
Here's what I did to solve this problem. It works on all platforms/all phones/all browsers. I created a document using TitanPad (http://titanpad.com/ http://titanpad.com/) -- any paste bin service will do. I then bookmarked that document on all my computers and phones. I called the bookmark 'Text Sync'. Bonus if your favorite paste bin supports versioning. You can use secure Gists if you've got some private text to pass around.

by harel 14y ago

felixthehat 14y ago

You mean like pastefire, the browser plugin that sends text to your iPhone clipboard, that I've been using for years ;) http://pastefire.com/ http://pastefire.com/

jdotjdot 14y ago

This is exactly the kind of thing that Apple will likely implement one day as seamless integration is their speciality.

kaolinite 14y ago
They haven't done anything with text yet but there's iCloud Tabs for URLs. Anything you have open in Safari is available on your iPhone/iPad too and anything on those devices is available by clicking the cloud icon in Safari.

the_mitsuhiko 14y ago

And just for the record: for firefox users there is fox to phone: http://www.foxtophone.com/ http://www.foxtophone.com/

pdeuchler 14y ago

Chrome for iOS does this job beautifully :)

lepht 14y ago
Indeed. If only it weren't stuck with a slow js interpreter.
- hnriot 14y ago
  yes, chrome on iOS is unsable because of this. I'd love to use Chrome more, but even lightweight js sites are tediously slow on chrome/ios
  - lepht 14y ago
    Not just the javascript either, Chrome becomes horrendously slow with week wifi signals where Safari is fine. For some reason only Apple apps can do the 3G/LTE/Wifi request pooling magic that they added in iOS 6.
  - archagon 14y ago
    Unusable?! I've been using Chrome on my iPhone 4 for the past week and I haven't noticed a significant difference.
  - pravka 14y ago
    jailbreak + nitrous. problem solved. :)
    - lepht 14y ago
      Did that for a few weeks, and the Chrome performance boost was nice. I had to jail-unbreak though because stability was horrid for me, with applications constantly crashing :/
- pdeuchler 14y ago
  I jailbroke my phone and installed the Nitrous addon to give all apps access to the Nitro engine. Though, i'll admit it's not an option for everyone.
- harel 14y ago
  iOS is so last decade :)

ckarmann 14y ago

Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.

kalmar 14y ago
You can do this if you use Chrome on your phone, and are signed in with sync enabled. The tabs on your phone are accessible from the 'New Tab' page on you desktop and vice versa. On desktop Chrome, there's a little 'Other Devices' drop down at the bottom; on Chrome for Android, there's a button with a pair of arrows at the bottom right.
- ckarmann 14y ago
  That's great! Thank you.
- danielweber 14y ago
  Can that work in one direction? I have dozens of tabs open on my desktops, and I don't want to punish my phone with that.
  - tobyjsullivan 14y ago
    It doesn't open the tabs automatically. Your tabs open on your desktop are listed essentially like bookmarks on your phone. You choose to open them or not at any given time. The feature is enabled by default so if you're using Chrome already (on both devices, with your Google account), then it's likely already syncing (and clearly not punishing your phone).
jmhobbs 14y ago
Also check out Push Pop - http://pushpop.herokuapp.com/ http://pushpop.herokuapp.com/

8ig8 14y ago

Here's what I did to solve this problem. It works on all platforms/all phones/all browsers. I created a document using TitanPad (http://titanpad.com/ http://titanpad.com/) -- any paste bin service will do. I then bookmarked that document on all my computers and phones. I called the bookmark 'Text Sync'. Bonus if your favorite paste bin supports versioning. You can use secure Gists if you've got some private text to pass around.