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If you saw Steve Jobs give a keynote about the new iMac, then you know what Front Row is. As soon as I saw that I knew that I wanted to be able to run that on my Mac, but did not want to cough up the money for a new iMac G5. Luckily for me, someone figured out how to get Front Row running on any Mac running Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.4.x.

The first thing you’ll need to do is obtain a copy of Front Row. I can’t put it up for download here, for obvious reasons, but I’m sure you can find it somewhere…

After you obtain the Front Row folder, there will be a Front Row application. Make a copy of it, and drag it to /System/Library/CoreServices. Make another copy and drag it to your /Applications folder. Ignore the BezelServices.framework folder. There are two ways of launching Front Row, the first is to go into your Applications folder, and double clicking the Front Row application, then, while it is running press the “Escape” key. The second way, which I recommend, is to do this:

  1. Download Xkeys.
  2. Download this script and place the unzipped file in your applications folder.
  3. Open up Xkeys and choose your keyboard type, select the option when the F8 key is pressed…, then select launch the file/application and select Launch Front Row. Close out of Xkeys.

Now when you press F8 Front Row should launch.