When you're in the midst of an IM session with someone, you know when they're typing - there's a little info field that says "Rabbi Krustofski is typing".
Handy!
It would be a neat feature of email programs too - every morning, my sister and I email one another, and sometimes I'm running late or I miss a day. It would be cool if while I was typing my email, if my goodly sister were to check her email, instead of just the glaring 'NO ONE LOVES YOU' of a no new mail screen, it would say "Mike is writing an email to you right now!"
The way this would work: as soon as I entered her name in the To field, a little mini communique would be sent to her email address (actually an email, but short in the way only binary can be, and automatically sent when I begin typing the email).
If I canceled the email or saved it for later, the message on her screen would clear or update, as the applicable. Now, some people would not approve of this feature - so it would be a setting you could toggle, or enable for specific people only.
.Handy!
It would be a neat feature of email programs too - every morning, my sister and I email one another, and sometimes I'm running late or I miss a day. It would be cool if while I was typing my email, if my goodly sister were to check her email, instead of just the glaring 'NO ONE LOVES YOU' of a no new mail screen, it would say "Mike is writing an email to you right now!"
The way this would work: as soon as I entered her name in the To field, a little mini communique would be sent to her email address (actually an email, but short in the way only binary can be, and automatically sent when I begin typing the email).
If I canceled the email or saved it for later, the message on her screen would clear or update, as the applicable. Now, some people would not approve of this feature - so it would be a setting you could toggle, or enable for specific people only.
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That would be an AWESOME idea cause that way if they were ON the computer and KNEW you were sending one TO them they wouldn't turn it off(just in those cases where you have GOT to have an answer in like 5 minutes or someone is going o be hurting.-of course theres always the phone too for those times but just the same- why pick up the phone when you're ALREADY on the computer and can send an e-mail easier without having to leave the computer and look ALL over the place for the handset which has fallen down beside the cushions in the couch or even worse BEHIND the couch from where you laid it when you were stretched out watching TV and the dogs or cat jumped up and knocked it back behind it and at the time you just didn't feel up to getting up and pulling out the couch from the wall and then crawling over the couch to retrieve it, but then you watched the show and took that little nap and COMPLETELY forgot about it being back there so now you don't know where it is, so it would REALLY take too long to find it so a quick e-mail would be best at this point.)
ReplyDeleteBut yeah- that would be a good feature.