Google unveils panic button

So you hit the "send" button too quickly, and off goes a missive to your boss. Instead of breaking out in a cold sweat, there is now help from Google with a new feature that's just been added to Gmail. Now you can get your email back with an "UnDo Send" button. It's designed to hold back email for five seconds so the sender has time to realize, "Uh-oh, what a mistake!" and pull the message back.

"My theory (which others shared) was that even just five seconds would be enough time to catch most of those regrettable emails," wrote Michael Leggett, Google's user experience designer, in a recent blog post.

So for now, you can feel safe, calm, cool and collected. Wouldn't it be great if life were always like that?

For more on this neat new tool:
- check out this ComputerWorld.com article

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