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Eug Wanker · Mar 16, 2005, 10:08 AM

GoogleX

ManOfSteal · Mar 16, 2005, 10:12 AM

gogoogle.

MilkmanDan · Mar 16, 2005, 10:14 AM

Dear Google,

I love you too. You left your pants at my place last night.

Hugs and kisses,
OS X

historylme · Mar 16, 2005, 10:55 AM

LOL, so is google a power buttom?

xi_hyperon · Mar 16, 2005, 11:03 AM

That's really cool!

E's Lil Theorem · Mar 16, 2005, 11:05 AM

Pretty nifty indeed

Superchicken · Mar 16, 2005, 11:25 AM

I wanna make a dock for my site.. wonder how they did it.. I originally thought just roll over images.. but doesn't seem like that... though you could do it in flash... I'd love to do this with like... phpBB... I soo have to look at their script...

xi_hyperon · Mar 16, 2005, 11:39 AM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
I wanna make a dock for my site.. wonder how they did it.. I originally thought just roll over images.. but doesn't seem like that... though you could do it in flash... I'd love to do this with like... phpBB... I soo have to look at their script...

Seems pretty simple actually, although I can't say I would ever have thought of it.

Superchicken · Mar 16, 2005, 11:47 AM

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
Seems pretty simple actually, although I can't say I would ever have thought of it.

I've thought of it just never had an idea how to do it. How do you make the image grow? It's obviously not an animated gif. And it moves so smoothly.

Oneota · Mar 16, 2005, 12:38 PM

Okay, is Google's source actually just one big long line, or is that just how Safari is opting to show it? It's REALLY hard to reverse-engineer code you can't read!

Angus_D · Mar 16, 2005, 12:46 PM

Originally posted by Oneota:
Okay, is Google's source actually just one big long line, or is that just how Safari is opting to show it? It's REALLY hard to reverse-engineer code you can't read!

They deliberately obfuscate their code to protect their IP, I think.

bwahahax · Mar 16, 2005, 02:07 PM

Is it just me, or have they removed this search interface from their site?

OptimusG4 · Mar 16, 2005, 02:08 PM

Originally posted by bwahahax:
Is it just me, or have they removed this search interface from their site?

Blast! It's gone for me as well

OldManMac · Mar 16, 2005, 02:11 PM

It appears to be gone, as quickly as it came.

Big Mac · Mar 16, 2005, 02:15 PM

And there's no archive.org page since google blocks robots.

I wish someone would have saved a screen shot.

historylme · Mar 16, 2005, 02:26 PM

WOW, why would theytake it off so soon! Okay, I know the reasons, but surly they would have thought of them before hand. I even bookmarked... that sucks.

ManOfSteal · Mar 16, 2005, 02:31 PM

Hahaha, what a tease! Wait, it's Google, this will be in "beta" for a few decades before release...

xi_hyperon · Mar 16, 2005, 02:33 PM

Damn, that was fast.

I did download the code while it was up, although I wish I had downloaded the images as well.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Mar 16, 2005, 02:35 PM

It is a step back. Neat trick though.

xi_hyperon · Mar 16, 2005, 02:38 PM

Never saw this one before.

Xeo · Mar 16, 2005, 02:43 PM

Well I didn't see it. Sounds like they had a dock with magnification and everything going on. That's cool. I made a website a couple years ago for a MUG and it looked like OS X. I had a cool dock made with PNGs. I had the rollover text, too. Even got the transparency matched down to the percent. Did it with the windows, menubar, the works. Good quality OS interface ripoff, if I say so myself. Just didn't do the magnification thing. I wouldn't have had a clue how to do that.

wdlove · Mar 16, 2005, 02:47 PM

It probably was very interesting since it was gone so quickly.

angelmb · Mar 16, 2005, 02:47 PM

Originally posted by Big Mac:
I wish someone would have saved a screen shot.

Sure

ManOfSteal · Mar 16, 2005, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
Well I didn't see it. Sounds like they had a dock with magnification and everything going on. That's cool. I made a website a couple years ago for a MUG and it looked like OS X. I had a cool dock made with PNGs. I had the rollover text, too. Even got the transparency matched down to the percent. Did it with the windows, menubar, the works. Good quality OS interface ripoff, if I say so myself. Just didn't do the magnification thing. I wouldn't have had a clue how to do that.

Have a link?

Oneota · Mar 16, 2005, 02:51 PM

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
Have a link?

Not anymore; the site's been down for quite awhile (the MUG in question dissolved). I have an archive of it, somewhere, but without the backend database, it'd be tough to get it up and going again.

Oneota · Mar 16, 2005, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by bwahahax:
Is it just me, or have they removed this search interface from their site?

Hmm..wonder if they got Steve'd?

OptimusG4 · Mar 16, 2005, 03:01 PM

Originally posted by Oneota:
Hmm..wonder if they got Steve'd?

I hope not, considering how much Steve uses and swears by Google, including making it the default search engine in Safari.

Xeo · Mar 16, 2005, 03:24 PM

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
Have a link?

Well, I had to dig through my archives to find it. I knew I still had this site somewhere. I put it up on my current hosting. Unfortunately, it's not the great version I once had because this version uses jpgs. I still have a bunch of pngs, but not a 1-1 correspondence so I'd have to work the code up a bit.

My old site

It's kinda ugly but that's cause OS X evolved and that UI didn't evolve with it. Imagine that site with all the shadows, the dock, etc, being transparent pngs. I once had it so you could choose your desktop and even have pictures under it. I really thought that was cool at the time.

I still have the photoshop files.

ManOfSteal · Mar 16, 2005, 03:27 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
Well, I had to dig through my archives to find it. I knew I still had this site somewhere. I put it up on my current hosting. Unfortunately, it's not the great version I once had because this version uses jpgs. I still have a bunch of pngs, but not a 1-1 correspondence so I'd have to work the code up a bit.

My old site

It's kinda ugly but that's cause OS X evolved and that UI didn't evolve with it. Imagine that site with all the shadows, the dock, etc, being transparent pngs. I once had it so you could choose your desktop and even have pictures under it. I really thought that was cool at the time. I still have the photoshop files.

Wow, thanks! Very cool stuff...

historylme · Mar 16, 2005, 03:28 PM

that very good

Oneota · Mar 16, 2005, 03:32 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
I once had it so you could choose your desktop and even have pictures under it. I really thought that was cool at the time. I still have the photoshop files.

I have a newer archive of the files somewhere (from just before the HD crash, I think) - msg me if you want it.

Krypton · Mar 16, 2005, 04:27 PM

Cached

Superchicken · Mar 16, 2005, 04:30 PM

I wish I knew how to do that dock thing...

Oneota · Mar 16, 2005, 04:32 PM

Originally posted by Krypton:
Cached

(Not Much) Discussion of the feature on Google Groups

Slow Mirror

mattyd · Mar 16, 2005, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by history1me:
LOL, so is google a power buttom?

I think that went right over lots of heads.

historylme · Mar 16, 2005, 05:15 PM

Originally posted by mattyd:

I think that went right over lots of heads.

I think that's a good thing. I just thought it was really funny.

Kenneth · Mar 16, 2005, 07:47 PM

Google yanked it off.

Xeo · Mar 16, 2005, 08:15 PM

Originally posted by Oneota:
I have a newer archive of the files somewhere (from just before the HD crash, I think) - msg me if you want it.

I think you gave me the newest archive. I had just stopped using pngs during the last versions. We were supporting IE by having jpgs and it became too much management to keep pngs and jpgs both going. So I have most pngs for things, but some of the last crazy-coding I did I don't have pngs to correspond. I'd be 99% sure you don't have them either.

BTW, that code of mine is pretty ugly. The HTML is ugly. The PHP is ugly. Yuk.

AppleOptionFour · Mar 16, 2005, 08:23 PM

Originally posted by Kenneth:
Google yanked it off.

Yeah wtf?

historylme · Mar 16, 2005, 09:52 PM

Originally posted by Kenneth:
Google yanked it off.

im_noahselby · Mar 16, 2005, 10:10 PM

This looked awesome! I hope Google does something like this in the future! Much more fun than just some boring static text links...

Noah

malvolio · Mar 16, 2005, 11:34 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
BTW, that code of mine is pretty ugly. The HTML is ugly. The PHP is ugly. Yuk.

You're a brave man, publicly displaying code from your younger days.

paul w · Mar 17, 2005, 01:41 AM

Originally posted by Xeo:
BTW, that code of mine is pretty ugly. The HTML is ugly. The PHP is ugly. Yuk.

Table madness!!!

Ozmodiar · Mar 17, 2005, 01:59 AM

http://ed.agadak.net/googlex/

That's in the Google groups.

Eriamjh · Mar 18, 2005, 07:29 AM

Pulled!

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5621247.html

Ozmodiar · Mar 18, 2005, 07:46 AM

Apple has sought patent protection for the "Genie Effect" used in the Dock.

Isn't the "Genie Effect" what you see when you minimize a window?

Xeo · Mar 18, 2005, 08:06 AM

Originally posted by Ozmodiar:
Apple has sought patent protection for the "Genie Effect" used in the Dock.

Isn't the "Genie Effect" what you see when you minimize a window?

Yepper. That patent would have nothing to do with this at all.

Garage81 · Mar 18, 2005, 09:36 AM

wonder how much that google engineer got paid to figure out how to do that in a web browser