lifehacker.com— Got yourself a pen pal that just happens to speak another language? A new feature in Gmail Labs automatically translates foreign-language email messages to your native tongue directly in Gmail.
May 19, 2009View in Crawl 4
I love what the google team is doing with the lab features... but they really need a better way of organizing the list. New features shouldn't be arbitrarily added into the middle - it forces me to reading through the entire (now substantially large) list periodically just to see what's new.
"Why would you be receiving mails from someone in a different language AND you didn't understand that language?"Now? Not often. You know why? Because it'd be pointless for somebody to send me an e-mail I can't read. As the technology becomes better and more pervasive language barriers will start to disappear, and there will be no reason not to e-mail somebody because they speak a different language.
blynMay 20, 2009
I love what the google team is doing with the lab features... but they really need a better way of organizing the list. New features shouldn't be arbitrarily added into the middle - it forces me to reading through the entire (now substantially large) list periodically just to see what's new.
Closed AccountMay 20, 2009
Maybe you're in the process of learning that language?
ethergnatMay 20, 2009
"Why would you be receiving mails from someone in a different language AND you didn't understand that language?"Now? Not often. You know why? Because it'd be pointless for somebody to send me an e-mail I can't read. As the technology becomes better and more pervasive language barriers will start to disappear, and there will be no reason not to e-mail somebody because they speak a different language.
fabio1May 20, 2009
maybe that's what they intended? so that you end up annoyed but also able to find out some cool new feature you never knew existed?
andybryantMay 25, 2009
Fandabbidozi!