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Google's X Files Vanish
An anonymous reader writes "News.com reports that Google's latest technology experiment paid tribute to Apple Computer, but the Mac OS X-themed version of the search king's Web site was taken down a day after its debut. Though that particular page was taken down, there is a screenshot here displaying how the icons were magnified as the mouse hovered over them."
Apple was planning to sue Google over stealing the Mac look & feel, and Google found out because Apple's lawyers were using Google to search for info.
Would that just make the page #0000FF and all text #FFFFFF ?
*grin*
Is there a screen shot of the screen shot?
...would have been a lone picture of a smushed Morley cigarette.
The coolest voice ever.
All your bases... belong to Apple Legal
I saw it when it was active, my reaction was about the same as when I saw the Magnification feature in the real MacOS X dock, "cool, now let me turn that off and never use it again."
The creator himself said it was the result of "a fun late-night coding jaunt to help me learn Javascript and DHTML."
Well if I am looking at the right one, he should first learn about descriptive variable namees. There are a lot of single-letter variables and function names in there.
Table-ized A.I.
Yes, and thank you for putting it there. Good netizen, here's a bone for you ;)
There is nothing inherently safe about liberty. That's why so many people died protecting it.
How would zooming help your blind friend? AFAIK no matter how far you zoom, it doesn't get any clearer to people that can't see. Or am I missing a joke or something?
Re:Speculation (Score:3, Informative)
Bumbling idiot like a fox!
Steve Jobs: What is on the agenda today?
Secretary: Well sir, while you were sleeping a Google employee wrote 9 lines of JavaScript and made a blog entry, which because everytime Google farts the world sniffs.., spead around the world through other blogs as world changing. However, because it linked to an external site Google took it down without explination cause they are all "mysterious" and better than other companies, and then someone said you did it on Slashdot and now we have a mob with pitch forks and torches outside 1 Inifinite Loop.
Steve Jobs: Pitch forks already? I haven't had my coffee yet!
There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
Doesn't this prove that Google is writing it's own OS?
As there's cache of the images, anyone with a Web server could run this as their homepage at http://127.0.0.1/
Another thought: the icons could be recycled and used for ObjectDock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/) if only the goddamned thing wouldn't crash Explorer.exe so much...