Google adds 'undo send' button to Gmail
If you have ever sent an email and instantly regretted it Googles Gmail could have the answer for you, a five second undo button.The new feature - available through Google Labs - means users get five seconds to pull their emails back after hitting the send button.
Developers think this is just long enough to spot a missing file you thought was had attached, or that you are sending it to the wrong person.
Last year Google added a 'Beer Goggles' feature which forces a sender to answer a simple maths question before sending an email after 11pm.
Now if only they could invent something which stopped colleagues mocking you after you accidentally sent an email intended for your girlfriend to your entire workplace.
Writing on the Google Mail blog, Michael Leggett, user experience designer said: "Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake.
"I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can't make her surprise party.
"I can rush to close my browser or unplug the Internet — but Gmail almost always wins that race."
He goes on to explain that the 'undo send' feature can't pull back an email that's already gone but actually just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button.
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