Posts Tagged ‘usability’

Google Gmail Undo Send – The Most Useful Tool

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

I know I’ve sent my fair share of emails to the wrong people, and according to this Gmail Blog, it only takes a few seconds to realize the mistake, which I believe. Thanks to the new Google Labs Undo Semd, you may no longer need to feel like an idiot. Well because you sent an email to the wrong person or had the wrong info or something. Now you have about 5 seconds to realize your mistake and undo sending it. Once it is sent, you cannot remove it from the other person’s inbox. Now the only thing that would make this compelte is the ability to up that timer to about 10 seconds.

Cool URIs Should Not Change, But I Never Said They Were Cool

Monday, April 28th, 2008

According to some, URIs should not change. And I agree with that notion. However, the problem I have is that I didn’t give much thought into what I wanted to do. I thought this would a purely developmental blog (which is why I hosted it on the domain name that I will be releasing software under), however it quickly turned into a general computer science blog, which I am okay with. So yeah, moved it to my personal domain. It won’t happen again! I hope…