blog
04/01/2008
gmail custom time
Posted by Zadi Diaz


Now here is something I can get behind! How many times have you forgotten a birthday and just wished your Gmail account had a feature like this? With Gmail's Custom Time you can send that email back in time and it'll appear in your recipient's inbox in the correct chronological order. You can even mark it as "read" so now you have them thinking they're going crazy! Brilliant. No more awkward phone calls insisting that your email must have gotten lost -- now you can prove it. Yes, it's not right. But sometimes that's the cost of a saved black eye. Plus, think about how many first-come/first-served beta invites you can get! :)

BTW, does anyone remember how AOL had a sorta-similar feature back in the day? You could send an email and check if it had been read, and if it hadn't you could cancel it. It wasn't time travel, but it was actually a pretty cool feature.

filed: apps, funny
tags: pranks