Email the Past — Happy April 1 from Google

Google always deliv­ers some­thing fun on April 1^st. This year is no excep­tion
Check out Gmail Cus­tom Time. Imag­ine being able to have a tool where you could email into the past… Now wouldn’t that be fun

Here is a brief excerpt:

“I just got two tick­ets to Radio­head by being the ‘first’ to respond to a co-worker’s ‘first-come, first-serve’ email. Some­one else had already won them, but I told every­one to check their inboxes again. Every­one sort of knows I used Cus­tom Time on this one, but I’m deny­ing it.”

Robby S., Paralegal

They are even good at humor.

Gmail: Google’s approach to email

Oh yeah, on another note — a non-fictitious one. Google Docs is going to work with Google Gears now. Huh? That means that you can pull your doc­u­ments from the online edi­tor in Google down onto your desk­top, with­out the need for addi­tional pro­grams such as MS Office. Pretty sweet. It is being rolled out slowly, and I have not seen it yet. I will update once I get to try it out.