Ever wished you could recall that email you sent to a friend or a colleague in haste? While such a feature exists on many email clients like Microsoft Outlook etc, not many vendors provide such a functionality for their web based mails. Google had roled out this Undo Send or message recall feature for Gmail sometime back but its still in beta. It is listed under Gmail Labs where the beta functionalities can be enabled for daily use. Here are the steps to enable this feature:
Login to Gmail
Access Settings by clicking on the Gear icon on the Top Right hand side
Click on Labs
Type ‘Undo’ in the Search window or you can scroll down to access it
Click on Enable
Click on Save Changes.
Gmail will reload and you will now have Undo Button visible after you send a message.
By default you will have approximately 5 seconds to recall the message by clicking on the Undo button, post which it will be gone. However you can change that setting by following the instructions
Head back to Settings tab > General
Scroll down and under Undo Send option use the drop down button to set the time.
Click on Save Changes and your ready to recall message, albeit for a short duration only 🙂
Once you click on Undo, the previously composed message window will pop-up
Google appears to be on a re-branding mode, a few months back it was Android Market that was renamed to Google PlayStore along with various enhancements. Today Google docs has been renamed to Google Drive and comes with 5 GB free storage. You can now store, view and share over 30 different file formats including HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. You can also view saved revisions of up-to 30 days and optionally also keep a revision forever. Coinciding with this launch is the release of clients for PC and Mac. While the re-branded clients (earlier Google Docs client) for drive is also available for the iphone & Android devices.
Google has also increased the free storage for Gmail from 7.5 GB to 10 GB . At an additional 2.5$ per month users can avail 25GB storage for Gmail alone on the top of 25 GB for Drive & Picasa. To view your usage, click on the link HERE
At the current price, ability to collaborate & instant synchronization, Google drive must be the closest competitor to Dropbox. Although Microsoft started providing 25 GB of free online storage for SkyDrive users with clients being released for PC, Windows Mobile, iPad & iPhones since yesterday.
Only time will tell where this online storage war is headed, till then we wouldn’t have to worry about that last byte of storage online 🙂