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Cortex makes sharing links and tweets as easy as holding down your mouse
Ricardo Trejo
So you find yourself browsing through the internet as per your usual time when suddenly something strikes a chord with you. It’s something you MUST share, and so you break out a new tab and type the URL’s to either Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, or any other number of services you use to communicate your new discovery with your friends or the world. But wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you didn’t have to leave the page to share it with others? Cortex is that tool.
Cortex is a simple Google Chrome extension that can be downloaded for free on the Google web store. Once installed, you won’t ever have to click on a bookmark or open a new tab or window again to share a link or image with your friends.
How it works
- First, download Cortex for the Google Chrome browser.
- Then find a gem on the internet to share with others
- Click and hold you mouse down on what you want to share
- Select which service you want to share to
- Hover over it and let go of your mouse
- Write your blurb and then hit send. Done.
The concept is actually quite simple. Holding down on your mouse isn’t something that you do quite often unless you’re highlighting text, so having the accessibility to just click and hold makes a big difference when it comes to saving precious time between going through the different sharing channels. Not to mention that Cortex also shortens URL’s and uploads images itself without you having to do any of the gritty work.
If you want to take a look at how it all works in real-time then take a gander at the demo video below.
Download — Cortex extension for Google Chrome (free)
Learn more — Cortex Developer website
