If they only made something like this for WordPress or Message Boards, I’d have far fewer “ah, shit” moments on Saturday or Sunday mornings.
Google Labs has created a very cool and very useful new add-on for GMail called Mail Goggles.
Essentially, it’s like a breathalyzer for your “send” button within Gmail.
It’s default settings enable the Mail Goggles from late night Friday to early Sunday morning. (I tweaked mine to begin late night Thursday through Sunday. Damn open mic and Tweetups)
The way it works is this- if you attempt to send or reply to an email between the specified hours, Gmail requires you answer a few math problems of varying difficulty. (The difficulty level is also adjustable. Fortunately, I set mine to very difficult)
Lo and behold, I had something of a stressful night last night and was ready to fire off some emails that I would have likely regretted this morning.
But Google saved the day.
If only everything in life were this simple?
This is odd.
I remember reading of it since I have several Gmail accounts but I guess I do not mess around with the functions enough to know. Then again, I do not usually send hate mail. Well, to you I do but other than that I have no need to drunk mail anyone.
Then again, you said Goggles was “simple”, well, so am I Mike, so am I.
Have a nice weekend.
~BP
Yeah, there’s actually a bunch of neat gadgets and gizmos you can add onto your account.
Some of it is goofy shit that I couldn’t see myself ever really *needing* – but I tell ya- those Goggles came in handy last night.
Keep the hate mail coming.
xoxo
Holy crap! Thank you for pointing this out! Amazing!!!!!
I am definitely going to use that.
at last,something intresting.
Ah, yes. My art-school going little sister chimes in.
At first, I though, “gee, why would my seventeen year old sister think that this feature of Gmail is the least bit interesting?”
And then I remembered all of those pictures she put on the internet of her at drinking parties and thought – “of course! Because she’s all grown up now and going to Bud Light Beer Ball parties in the older boys basements. And the only reason I know this for certain is because she posts the pictures on her Facebook page. Which is, obviously, the sm-rtest thing that ANY seventeen year old applying to college can do.”
And for that, I understand why you would appreciate Google’s Mail Goggles.
xoxo
youre brohter
Still haven’t figured out why the kids do that kind of stuff. Nothing out there in the blogosphere ever goes away. Ever.
Shudders.