First things first, UNDO SEND. Really? Yes! This could be handy when you make some silly mistakes in email and you discover them immediately, but won’t serve you for mails which are long gone. It won’t help you to undo the harm of sending the longest hate mail that you sent last week, and now you don’t want to be held responsible of calling your friend a #$%^&@. Undo send is a new GMail Labs addon which on activation, will show a link of Undo till 5 seconds of sending an email. So, a window of 5 seconds is given for you to get back the shot arrow. Not bad eh! And as Michael Legett says in the GMail Blog Post, if the browser crashes or is closed within those 5 seconds, the mail will be still sent.
More new news, is that GMail now has enabled YouTube, FLickr, Picasa and Yelp preview within mail. Before it was Youtube windows which was enabled in GMail chat. And now, we can preview all these links from a Flickr or a Picasa Gallery to Youtube videos, right in your inbox. No need to go elsewhere. So share your links more and more. [ via GMail Blog ]
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Everybody is going gaga over the new stuff from GMail. Why doesn’t any of the other mail services wake up to it? EVen though Yahoo and Hotmail are still the big ones, why don’t they start working on these lines?
Undo Send seems like an early April Fool.
Okay, rolling out of features like this one means no use. Who would use Undo send and that too in a 5 second window.
As for Flickr and Youtube previews are concerned, that’s a good job done. What would be next. I hope, embeddable videos in Inbox, just like Reader.