How to text from PC and Mac using Android Messages -- available to all now

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according to Anne Dujmovic/CNETWant to text someone on PC or Mac, instead of having to use your phone? You can now send and receive Android text messages on a deskhighest or laphighest computer using Google's new Messages for web. Google announced Messages for web on June 18 as a brand-new feature for Android Messages, as spotted by 9to5Google. As of June 25, Google project lead Justin Uberti says everyone ought have access to the feature:To use the feature you'll need the laanalisis version of the Android Messages app, that you ought be able to download here. Update, June 26: Android Messages for web ought now be fully rolled out, according to Google's project lead.

Here's how to unlock the hidden Easter eggs in Android Messages

Here's how to open the hidden Easter eggs in Android Messages /praisethesun \`[-|-]/Earlier this month Google launched deskhighest browser backing for Android Messages, letting you text friends from your PC (if you've got an Android device to determine things up with). Well, it wouldn't be a proper Google app without a few hidden Easter eggs, and users have been busy digging up words and phrases that act as shortcuts to kaomoji — those Japanese emoticons that look a little like this: ٩(ఠ益ఠ)۶. Most of these seem to have been carried over from Hangouts, as spotted by this post on Reddit. We've assembled a partial list of the ones we've tested below, but unfortunately it seems the more elaboaverage tricks from Hangouts don't work. To execute these commands on Android Messages, just type a forward slash and then the word you need to use.

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