★ Announcing SendTab
Today, we are releasing SendTab, a Safari extension that lets you send tabs from your laptop or phone to your living room computer.
We live in a connected household, where laptops and iPads outnumber residents. Our living room TV is connected to a Mac Mini, which we use for all of our media consumption - we stream a lot of video from all over the web. However, we do most of our browsing and discovery on our laptops and iPads, and right now, the process of sending something from a laptop to the big screen is really annoying.
That's why we built SendTab. Now, with a single tap, the current tab we're viewing will appear within seconds on the big screen. Any page can instantly be sent from Safari, Firefox, Chrome and any iOS device to the big screen.
Of course, not everyone has a computer connected to their TV. SendTab is handy for all sorts of other things:
- Quickly send a tab from one browser to another...
- Send tabs from your iPhone or iPad to your laptop...
- Send tabs to your girlfriend!
SendTab also has an easy to use API, so developers can send tabs from within their apps. Neat, eh?
Many thanks to XOXCO's #1 intern, Damien Bell, for his hard work on SendTab, and to all of our talented designer friends who helped us design the SendTab button, and to our computer-tv having friends who helped us test. Thanks, dudes!
- Ben Brown, Aug 20, 2010