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Nov 16, 2014 OS X Yosemite Review – Features of OS X Yosemite. Apple Yosemite, that was released on 16th October 2014 as the successor to Mavericks is the current latest release of the OS X series. It is also known under the version OS X 10.10 and the minimum system requirements are same as what is needed for Mavericks. Front Row is a discontinued media center software application for Apple's Macintosh computers and Apple TV for navigating and viewing video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disc, or the Internet through a 10-foot user interface (similar to Kodi and Windows Media Center). OS X El Capitan; OS X Yosemite; OS X Mavericks; OS X Mountain Lion; Mac OS X v10.7 Lion; Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard; Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger; Mac OS X v10.3 and earlier; Mac OS X Technologies; Classic Mac OS (OS9, OS8 & System 7) Photos for Mac; QuickTime; Safari; Front Row.
Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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Stable release | 2.2.1 (314) / November 9, 2009 |
Operating system | Mac OS X |
Type | Media Center |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#frontrow |
Front Row is a discontinued media center software application for Apple's Macintosh computers and Apple TV for navigating and viewing video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disc, or the Internet through a 10-foot user interface (similar to Kodi and Windows Media Center). The software relies on iTunes and iPhoto and is controlled by an Apple Remote or the keyboard function keys. The first version was released October 2005, with two major revisions since. Front Row was removed and discontinued in Mac OS X 10.7.[1]
Versions[edit]
Introduction[edit]
Front Row was first unveiled on October 12, 2005 with the new iMac G5 (along with the built-in iSight camera, the Apple Remote, and Photo Booth).[2] The software was billed as an alternative interface for playing and running iPhoto, DVD Player, and iTunes (Internet radio stations could play by adding the station into a playlist in iTunes).
Front Row v1.3.1 running on Tiger
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Apple TV[edit]
The next incarnation, released in the original Apple TV software in March 2007, was a complete, stand alone application that played content directly from libraries. Among the features added were more prominent podcasts and TV show menus, trailer streaming, a settings menu, streaming content from computers on the local network, and album and video art for local media. In the summer of 2007, Apple released an update adding streaming of YouTube videos.
Version two[edit]
Released in November 2007 with Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard),[3] version two of Front Row included the new features introduced with the Apple TV (except for the YouTube viewer), a different opening transition, ending AirTunes functionality, and a launcher application in addition to the Command+Escape keyboard shortcut.
Front Row 2 has an undocumented plug-in architecture, for which various third-party plugins are now available, based on reverse-engineering the Front Row environment. Because it uses QuickTime to render video, Front Row can utilize any codec installed in QuickTime, including DivX, Xvid, and WMV, and play DVD images copied to the hard disk. However, because Front Row does not use QuickTime X, it lacks support for certain codec features like Sample Aspect Ratio.
'Take 2'[edit]
In January 2008, Apple announced an update branded 'Apple TV Take Two' for Apple TV Software. In addition to the prominent addition of direct downloads for movies, TV episodes, and podcasts via the iTunes Store, movie rentals, the ability to view online photos from Flickr or MobileMe (branded .Mac at the time), and the ability to stream audio to AirTunes were added. This update did away with Front Row and introduced a new interface for the original Apple TV in which content was organized into six categories, all of which appeared in a large square box on the screen upon startup (movies, TV shows, music, YouTube, podcasts, and photos) and presented in the initial menu, along with a 'Settings' option for configuration, including software updates.[4][5]
Discontinuation[edit]
Front Row was discontinued with the July 2011 release of Mac OS X Lion (v 10.7). The software appeared in neither the early Developer Previews nor the final version.
While it was initially possible to reinstall Front Row by copying the frameworks and application into OS X Lion,[6]iTunes v 10.4 on 22 July 2011 broke compatibility, causing those who updated iTunes to lose access to their music through Front Row.[7]
References[edit]
- ^AppleInsider Staff (February 26, 2011). 'Mac OS X Lion drops Front Row, Java runtime, Rosetta'. AppleInsider. AppleInsider, Inc. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
- ^'Apple Introduces the New iMac G5'. Apple PR. October 12, 2005. Archived from the original on July 25, 2006. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
- ^Apple – Mac OS X Leopard – Features – 300+ New FeaturesArchived October 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Gallery: Apple TV Take 2 software update'. MacNN. February 12, 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
- ^'How to update Apple TV software'. Apple. September 2, 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
- ^9 to 5 Mac LLC (July 19, 2011). 'OS X Lion kills Front Row.. here's how to get it back'. 9to5mac.com. 9 to 5 Mac LLC. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^'Front Row missing with Lion upgrade'. apple.com.
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I would argue that as long as front row is the front most app, all you need to hit is escape to activate it. and navigate via arrow keys (left/right) and enter (select) and escape (go back one level, including exiting the app). At least, this is my experience on my powerbo..uh, computer.
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I need to add, that just hitting escape won't trigger it. You must hold it (for 3-5 seconds) until you see it activating. I also tried this with command-escape, per the hint, and - nothing. But this may be true on an iMac. Confirmation?---
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I just tried running front row on my powerbook and noticed something interesting when you are connected to an external monitor.
Set the arrangement of the monitors so that the external display is on the left. Click into the 'Photos' section and notice where the first thumbnail is actually drawn before it slides into the main monitor's space.
Here is a screenshot showing the position of the image thumbnail before it slides in. The gray space on the left of the image is the 2nd monitor's desktop background picture. The duplication of the thumbnail is a result of my movie capture software choking during the transition animation.
http://www.mattbinkowski.com/images/frontrow_thumbnail.jpg
Does anyone know how Apple captures the transitions as shown on their website (http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/dashboard.html)?
Another thing is that Front Row responds to the same slow motion animation as the dock by holding the shift key down.
Set the arrangement of the monitors so that the external display is on the left. Click into the 'Photos' section and notice where the first thumbnail is actually drawn before it slides into the main monitor's space.
Here is a screenshot showing the position of the image thumbnail before it slides in. The gray space on the left of the image is the 2nd monitor's desktop background picture. The duplication of the thumbnail is a result of my movie capture software choking during the transition animation.
http://www.mattbinkowski.com/images/frontrow_thumbnail.jpg
Does anyone know how Apple captures the transitions as shown on their website (http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/dashboard.html)?
Another thing is that Front Row responds to the same slow motion animation as the dock by holding the shift key down.
Well, with my hacked FrontRow on my 17' imac g4, to activate it, I press Command + Esc. then u can use tha arrowkeys to navigate and enter to select, Esc to go back.
And for the record, the Apple Store in Cambridge Ma has photobooth on the dock, they even had .mac accounts setup with email so i could mail myself the pics of me and my girlfriend back to my home email.
And for the record, the Apple Store in Cambridge Ma has photobooth on the dock, they even had .mac accounts setup with email so i could mail myself the pics of me and my girlfriend back to my home email.
Apple (surprisingly!) doesn't leave small, easily shoplift-able remotes sitting around on counters where anyone could put the devices in their pocket and leave the store.
I don't know about the Apple Store near you, but at the one near me, on of the salespeople who works the floor almost always has a remote with them available for demonstration. Download java for os x 2017-001 apple.
if you download and install front row 1.0.1 from apples support site (and add a little hack), you can set your keyboard shortcut is system prefs>keyboard>keyboard shortcuts there will be a menu labeled front row. i set mine to F8. I don't know about the Apple Store near you, but at the one near me, on of the salespeople who works the floor almost always has a remote with them available for demonstration. Download java for os x 2017-001 apple.
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Front Row's known complement of keyboard shortcuts is documented here:
http://rgbdream.com/?p=52
http://rgbdream.com/?p=52
Now I know why command escape doesn't work to pause VirtualPC anymore. Anyone know how to re-enable this shortcut in VirtualPC?
disable or change the front row shortcut in prefs - keyboard - keyboardshortcuts will do the trick, i guess.
This shortcut is one of the apple globally-modifyable keywords that shows up in the Keyboard preferences pane.
I came up with this idea last night,tried it and it works. The idea is that you can control Front Row with OS X speech commands. I haven't set all the commands yet. I named my computer 'Eve' so the commands I have so far are..
'Eve, Front Row' which activates front row. Saying it again deactivates it.
'Eve, Move Left' moves the main menu to the left
'Eve, Move Right' moves the main menu to the right
'Eve, Enter' selects the current menu.
'Eve, Move Down' goes down the selections
'Eve, Front Row' which activates front row. Saying it again deactivates it.
'Eve, Move Left' moves the main menu to the left
'Eve, Move Right' moves the main menu to the right
'Eve, Enter' selects the current menu.
'Eve, Move Down' goes down the selections
It seems that somewhere around 10.4.9, this was changed to cmd-F8