As you might know already, the new iMacs ship with a new application called Front Row that allows you to view all your Digital Life in full screen mode a la TiVo. The thing is, as of today it only comes with the new iMacs. It’s not available for purchase or with any other computer, yet. However, with a little help from the internet, you can download the app and try it on your own Mac. Here’s Front Row running on my 12″ Powerbook. I found it to be very slooooow, like a beta version. But hey, to be fair this is a hack sort of speak, because it’s not optimized for a PowerBook and it might even be missing some necessary files to run properly. To enjoy the full Front Row experience you need to use it with a remote control. For this I used my Bluetooth phone with the free app Romeo and Wise Weasel’s Front Row plugin. I was able to navigate all of it from across the room using my phone as a remote. I really hope Apple releases Front Row for the rest of us. It is just too cool to be left out.
UPDATE: here’s the link
One of my my favorite features is the ability to watch movie trailer streamed from the Apple website right into Front Row. And it’s smart enough to pause my iTunes when it plays videos.
The iTunes interaction is extremely slow. Slow enough that I don’t bother to go into it.
And I had to restart the application a few times when I got this error.
This is how it looks when it works.
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Hi, i have my pb with front row and the DVD player is not working it keeps on saying “An error was encountered while communicating with DVD Player. Press the Play/Pause button to go to the desktop”
Check the Appleblogs latest post for a version that isn’t buggy and works well.
Also, is the K700i compatible with the bluetooth remote thing, would be ace if it is!!
New way of installing Apple’s FrontRoe 1.0.1 through the blog post How To Install Apple’s Front Row
Hey where is front row online i download the remote software.
-mikez
found it, its working great on my 1.25 ghz 15inch powerbook. this is so COOL!!! ThankS
the trailer-thing won’t work at all “error in communicating with movie trailers server”
15″ PowerBook … got suggestions? it did work on the above 12″ PowerBook, after all…
I used front row on my Powerbook 12″. I first went into the music section and began to search by artist for some songs. It took so long that I just ended up force quiting front row, and looking up the songs up on itunes.
I still am in shock that this happened but when I went to look in itunes, all of my songs were gone. I then decided to restart my computer in hopes that they would all come back after I restarted it, but that was not the case. All that ended up happening was I found more things missing from my computers hardrive, such as pictures movies and my desktop was completely empty.
This has been an exteremely rough day, and I would appreciate it if anyone could help my out, or give me any ideas on how I could fix it.
Thanks
hi where can u get this program??
hi, I hope somebody can help me.
I followed the instructions of the website exactly as described but my frontrow would not start up pressing apple+esc.
did anybody have the same issue, can somebody give me a hinyt? I have got a powerbook 10.4.8 itunes 7 etc.. all updated.