Lauren's Tabulas

Face Analyzer

Posted by Lauryn at 11:46 AM on January 21, 2005 in Web discoveries.

Reverie discovered this Face Analyzer. Just upload a photo and it'll tell you your gender, race, intelligence level, so on and so forth. it will even tell you if you look gay or promiscuous. And mine?


29% East Indian
10% Eastern European
61% Anglo Saxon

Anglo Saxon? But it's accurate in saying that I'm not gay.

Google fun

Posted by Lauryn at 04:36 PM on November 23, 2004 in Web discoveries.

Click this http://www.google.com/language_tools

In the translate text area, type out "my mom is cool and nice" without the quotes. Then select to translate from english to spanish, and submit.

Now, take the returned text, copy and paste it back into the translate text area, and select to translate it from spanish to english.

Can we say "lost in translation"?

Gmail invites to tabulas readers

Posted by Lauryn at 09:41 AM on June 17, 2004 in Web discoveries.

I just got another bunch of gmail invites ...If you don't have a google mail (gmail) address, you might be interested to get an invite from me.

Just comment below and post a valid email address ( you can add@REMOVE) and you will get 1 gmail invite . Include first and last name (can be initials) . Valid until supply lasts…haha. But even if I ran out, just post your email address and I’ll give you once I get more invites.



*EDIT (July 31)- SORRY BUT I DON'T HAVE INVITES. I HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY INVITES FROM GOOGLE FOR OVER 3 WEEKS NOW.
!.

Gmail invites are not available at this time

Posted by Lauryn at 07:06 AM on May 6, 2004 in Web discoveries.

Random readers here are asking me for free invites to a gmail account. I should make this clear....I have never received any free gmail invites from my account. PERIOD. A few days ago, I wrote " google mail feedback" about it and here is their reply:

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Gmail Team gmail -support@google.com to me
More options 6:49am (28 minutes ago)

Hello Lauren,

Thank you for your email.

Because Gmail is in a limited test period, we occasionally issue a small number of new user invitations. The Gmail team is gathering feedback and suggestions from our current users, and as we make progress with our service, we issue more invitations. We are unable to offer more invitations at this time. Thank you for your patience while we work to make Gmail generally available.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

The insanity

Posted by Lauryn at 10:40 AM on May 1, 2004 in Web discoveries.

Gmai invites in ebay . How insane. As of now there are about 130 invitations being sold and this auction is up to $168 Dollars right now!

If their purpose is to reserve usernames, they are wasting their money.

You know when I first signed up, it said "lauren" was not available so I used my other nick. Just today, I emailed the lauren username and guess what, mail undelivered.
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Mail Delivery Subsystem
to me

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

lauren@gmail.com

----- Original message -----


Maybe gmail is holding on to the popular usernames. Just a thought!

But yeah, I love the web interface of gmail!

Edit: I just found out that Google blocked off common first names and last names. Those are often targeted for spam and viruses.

My Gmail beta account

Posted by Lauryn at 08:07 AM on April 30, 2004 in Web discoveries.

Whee!! I got a gmail invite from Ray, a member of the Orkut Filipino community I formed. The invite has been there since April 19 and I didn't realize I had it till today. Bah. Anyway, I wanted lauren@gmail.com but it was taken. I got lauryn@REMOVETHISgmail.com....The beta testing is by invitation only.

COME ON SPAM ME NOW!!!



If you haven't already heard about Gmail, it's a new search-based webmail service that offers:

- 1,000 megabytes (one gigabyte) of free storage
- Built-in Google search that instantly finds any message you want
- Automatic arrangement of messages and related replies into
"conversations"
- Text ads and related pages that are relevant to the content of your
messages

"Gmail, the 1gb webmail service offered by Google, has gone into beta. Blogger (owned by google) users have first crack at the service. Besides the massive storage, the free service boasts a sophisticated spam filter, no pop-ups/banners, and gives you search results relevant to the emails you receive automatically. Bring on those attachments!"

I think this will be useful for those attachments. We'll see.