Google gmail team has recently enhanced the Undo Send feature in gmail, which allows user to unsend emails after you have sent them. You could unsend emails for up to 5 seconds until now, as Gmail delayed the emails for 5 seconds before it actually sent them.
Gmail now allows you to dial the delay duration up to 30 seconds. You can change the “Send Cancellation Period” to 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds by visiting Gmail > Settings > General > Undo Send
Thats It!!!
This blog provides the services that aims to let the reader be in touch with computer related tricks and day to day technical news and activities around the world.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
MYSTERY BEHIND NAME AND COLOR SCHEME OF GOOGLE
Is there any mathematical logic behind the Google logo?The fact is that Google loves numbers:
- Google is named after a Googol, which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. They didn’t use the original spelling because someone made a mistake, which was fortuitous since googol.com was taken, but google.com was available.
- Google’s buildings are numbered 0, 1, e, pi, and phi; all of which have mathematical significance.
- Google’s first IPO raised $2,718,281,828, which is the product of “e” and $1 billion, where “e” is the base of the natural logarithm.
- For their second public offering Google will sell 14,159,265 shares, which is the first 8 digits after the decimal point in pi (3.14159265)
Google played with numbers to select and attract mathematicians. There were the numbers again: pi and e.
Now take a closer look at the Google logo:
How did they decide which colors to pick? Just a random pick? I don’t think so.. Google will not do anything random or without a reason. And the colors don’t appear random to me. When we take a closer look at the colors and play around you’ll see the earlier mentioned favorite number again: e.
The colors of the logo are blue red yellow blue green red. So that makes brybgr. Seems meaningless, but let’s get it going on in Google-style and translate this to the numbers of the alphabet (a=1, z=26).
b r y b g r = 2 18 25 2 7 18
Hey! 2 18 25 2 7 18
2718 looks familiar, and it is because there’s e again! e = 2,718…
2718 looks familiar, and it is because there’s e again! e = 2,718…
Is this a coincidence? I don’t think so. But I don’t see any logic in the rest of it. So maybe there’s someone that can sort it out. You’ll be the first!
Some more help or logic: I mentioned Googol. And there is also something called Googolplex. I don’t believe Google made a mistake in speling in Googol. They just really wanted that e in there name. The colors may explain in Google-style how they did come from googol(plex) to Google. The only thing we have to do is solve it..
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)