Front Row on any Mac running 10.4.3

By Jan Kabili

Not that we're advocating anything shady, but Mac hacker Andrew Escobar has figured out a way to make Front Row 1.0.1 work on any Mac running Tiger 10.4.3. Escobar's method gives you full control over Front Row sound preferences and keyboard shortcuts. He's posted detailed instructions for installing Front Row 1.0.1 (the version Apple made available for download a couple weeks ago), using Pacifist (a shareware app that installs and extracts files from an OS X package), and his own Front Row Enable 1.0.1 (which patches a couple of OS X files). We haven't tried it, but reader comments confirm it works on various Macs from Mac minis to PowerBooks to iBooks.

Then there's the question of legality, to which Escobar responds:
"1 Downloading updates from Apple: Legal
2 Using Pacifist to Install files: Legal
3 Enabling via a small patch, making no use of Apple's files: Questionable, but good case in favor."
 

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