Have you ever experienced
this ….. you respond to some e-mail communication, commenting on the ignorance
or the mistake of the sender [who is an important person occupying a higher
rank] – wish to share that privately
with the person who is closest to you – press the send button, only to realise
that you have clicked ‘reply all’ – a recipe for disaster or unpleasantness, the least !
In Microsoft Outlook, there
is this feature of stopping delivery of a mail wrongly sent and optionally
replace with another message – the catch is – only when sent to another
Microsoft Exchange Server user within your organization. Message recall is
available after you click Send and then realize that you forgot to attach a
file, include information in the message, or want to revise what was originally
sent. One cannot however recall messages sent to
email addresses outside your organization ~and you wished that Gmail too had
such a facility !!
That stands answered ~ Gmail
has added 'Undo Send' tool to stop embarrassing emails getting to the wrong
people. Google has made its 'Undo Send'
tool an official and permanent feature nearly six years since it launched as an
experiment in Gmail Labs. To enable the
feature, get into your Gmail settings
and in that long list tick the 'Enable
Undo Send' box and set the cancellation period which however cannot be more
than 30 seconds. In fact, there are 3
options of 10,20, 30 seconds – thus effectively delays the sending by
half-a-minute, giving the option to change the mind and the content !
Google Inbox is an email service
available for desktops - on Chrome, Firefox and Safari - as well as an iOS and
Android app. When a user first logs in using, Google scans the account to
present important emails first. It
groups similar emails into 'Bundles' based on subject and turns addresses into
map links. Other features include the option to undo sending messages, snoozing
emails to be dealt with at a later time, and pinning messages to the top of the
inbox.
To use the feature on the
desktop, compose an email in the traditional way and hit send. A pop-up message will appear at the top of
the inbox that says: 'Your message has been sent. Undo.' Clicking Undo stops
the message being sent and reopens it in a compose window so users can delete
it, change the recipient or amend what has been written. The announcement was made in a official blog
post: 'Previously a popular feature in Gmail Labs, and recently added to Inbox
by Gmail, today we’re adding 'Undo Send' as a formal setting in Gmail on the
web.
Not sure whether the recipient
will receive any message when you hit ‘undo’ button ! In another move, Google has
removed emoji images from its search results on mobile and desktop. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji
literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji). Some emoji are very specific to Japanese
culture, such as a bowing businessman, a face wearing a face mask, a white
flower used to denote "brilliant homework," or a group of emoji
representing popular foods.
At a time when it seems
every website and app is adding support for emoji, Google is bucking the trend.
The tech giant has removed them from its search results and they will no longer
appear when people search for pages that feature the ubiquitous images. Support for emoji is said to have been pulled
after websites were using the pictographs to push their pages to the top of
results.
Google has removed support
for emoji on its search pages. Google’s webmaster trends analyst John Mueller
made the announcement during a Google+ Hangout in May. He explained that Google
stopped supporting unicode symbols in 2003 and planned to do the same with
emoji. Sites using emoji won't be penalised for using the images, instead the
icons simply won't show up when the searches are made.
In April Instagram updated
its app to let users search for emoji hashtags. These changes in particular let
people post, explore other people's photos and interact with captions using
just emoji. The most popular emoji on
the site is the crying with laughter face, followed by the face with love
hearts for eyes and blowing a kiss emoji.
Elsewhere, Microsoft
announced last month it would be adding emoji symbols to its Windows 10
software when it launches later this year. But instead of using the standard
emoji characters seen across Facebook, Twitter and apps, it will introduce its
own range.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
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