Doh! undo! undo! undo…ahwhw.

Have you ever sent that email you really didn’t want to send but the drunk you thought it was a brilliant idea.  I know at least one person who has sent out an email ranting on and on about their utter dislike for the boss because the little angry voice told them it was a good idea and it was about time someone stood up to that jerk. Don’t you wish you could just get  that micro-second back, a sort of panic-this-is-a-colossal-mistake button, well if you’re a Google follower and thus a user of there fabulous online email app, Gmail, you’re in luck. Google just release a new feature that allows you to stop an already sent email. Its labeled as the “undo” button but I will call it “email regret” button and so it shall be called from this day forth…if I remember. Anyway what it comes down to is that if you send an email via Gmail and for any reason within a few seconds(5 seconds) of sending said email you want to cancel it, all you have to do is click the “email regret” aka “undo” button and pow through the magic that is server and the interweb stuff its recalled.  The low down on the what’s happening and how Googles God power is working to save your drunk angry ass is as follows, when you click send Google holds the message for a 5 second delay from the time you hit send and the time that Gmail actually sends the message.

You have to go in Gmail Labs in Settings to activate this new feature. (Scroll down in settings, it is not at the top for some reason).

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