Could you use this GMail add-on?

October 9, 2008, 2:43 pm

Google have proved they have a sense of humour by releasing a funky add-on to the Labs in Gmail. All it does is confirm that you really, really want to send that email you just typed. Which sounds silly, but how often have you bunged off a random SMS while drunk that you kind of wish the girl in accounts hadn’t received? Or gotten horny (while drunk) and emailed an ex to suggest that perhaps one more try together might actually be a good idea?

Mail Goggles aims to stop that. Whenever you send a message (based on a schedule, defaulting to late night at weekends) it asks you to solve a couple of maths problems before it’ll actually release the mail.

Completely silly. But I like it. I really wish I’d had something like that on my mobile way back in the past.

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Tags: GMail, Google, Mail Goggles | Category: Computers | 2 comments

2 comments to Could you use this GMail add-on?

• weenie

  October 9, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  In theory it’s a great idea – have sent daft drunken texts in the past but none that I regret. Don’t tend to go online when I’ve had a few, not since the time I logged into my bank account and transferred money that I didn’t have. I reported to my bank that I thought my account had been hacked and they tracked the ‘hacking’ back to me…doh! Not doing that again!

• Mosh

  October 9, 2008 at 8:44 pm

  Oh dear… not the cleverest thing! A lot of mine were many years ago back in Bradford. Lonely, horny, a girl I knew was “into” me but I wasn’t into her. Except in the “for about half an hour then roll over and go to sleep” fashion.

  Yeah, couple of beers and some porn does that to a person. Whoops.

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