{"id":9670,"date":"2015-06-23T19:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2015-06-24T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T11:52:13","slug":"undo-send-is-now-part-of-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/undo-send-is-now-part-of-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Undo Send is now part of Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Undo Send” is now part of Gmail<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Love it or hate it, Gmail is now the world’s largest Web-based email provider With over 900,000,000 users, Gmail\u00a0has passed Microsoft’s Web Mail applications (Hotmail, MSN, Live.com, and Outlook.com) and has overtaken Yahoo.com the one time Web mail leader.<\/p>\n

Because we know that a lot of you use Gmail we’know you’ll be interesting in a new feature added to Gmail recently called Undo Send. Undo Send has been one of Google’s experimental apps and previously available only in Google labs. If you have enabled Undo Send by turning it on in Google Labs, it will remain active. But Undo Send is now part of regular Gmail and has been removed from Google Labs.<\/p>\n

For those of you who have no idea what Undo Send is for, it’s for those times you sent an email and as soon as you’ve hit the “Send” button you wish you would not have sent it. We’ve all done that, right? I do it almost every day with EB. I write this really nice tirade of insults and click the send button. I laugh. I now I have 10, 20, or 30 seconds (depending on my settings) to undo the send and save the day. One thing you don’t EVER want to do is get on EB’s bad side the first thing in the morning. She sure as heck doesn’t used Undo Send – \u00a0she lectures me, belittles me and otherwise harasses me until she feels I’ve been punished enough for sending her an email tirade. Now, with Undo Send I get all of the fun of venting and don’t have to spend any of my time repenting – nor getting verbally abused by EB.<\/p>\n

Seriously folks, Undo Send, is like insurance against sending something you wish you wouldn’t have – and that time comes for all of us. You can enable Undo Send and set it to give you 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds to change your mind and undo sending any email. \u00a0Whatever number of seconds you choose, you have that long to change your mind and undo the sending of any email.<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing, I tells ya! Even if you’re perfect you’re going to make a mistake and send something to someone that you didn’t mean to; Gmail’s Undo Send can save the day.<\/p>\n

How do you turn it on? Good Question!<\/p>\n

Sign into Gmail<\/p>\n

Click on the icon that looks like a gear (see below)<\/p>\n

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Click “Settings” (highlighted in green above)<\/p>\n

About \u00a01\/3 of the way down, you’ll see Undo Send (see the screen shot below). Tick “Enable” and choose the number of seconds you want to have to change your mind before your email is sent. \u00a0Default is 10 seconds, but you can change it to 5, 20, or 30 seconds -depending on the quickness of your thought process – KIDDING! Choose whatever number of seconds you like; the more seconds the more time you have to change your mind.
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DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE YOUR SETTINGS!<\/p>\n

Now, with Undo Send turned on, you have a way to get an errant email back before it causes embarrassment or ends a friendship or a marriage. KIDDING! You get what I mean.<\/p>\n

Dear EB,<\/em><\/p>\n

You are one ________ woman! You will pay what you’ve done to me. You are nothing but a ______ and a _____ and I’m sick and tired of dealing with the ________ side of you.<\/em><\/p>\n

As far as I’m concerned you can take your _______ and _____ and take a slow train to _______. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0You _______ old ______.<\/em><\/p>\n

Your friend & partner,<\/em><\/p>\n

TC<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After I send my letter filled with vitriol, I regain my senses and decide not so send it. No problem, I simply click “Undo” after I click “Send” when I see the follow appear at the top of the Gmail windows after I clicked “Send”:<\/p>\n

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See? But you’ll only have so many seconds to click undo (depending on how many seconds you chose when you set up Undo Send…5, 10, 20, 30…. Give yourself ample time, sometimes seething doesn’t disappear in 5 seconds. Plus you don’t want to send your boss your underwear size by mistake do you?<\/p>\n

Now as far as EB goes — I get to vent and then repent! How great is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Undo Send” is now part of Gmail Love it or hate it, Gmail is now the world’s largest Web-based email provider With over 900,000,000 users, Gmail\u00a0has passed Microsoft’s Web Mail applications (Hotmail, MSN, Live.com, and Outlook.com) and has overtaken Yahoo.com the one time Web mail leader. Because we know that a lot of you use Gmail we’know you’ll\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9675,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/9675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}