Zeno, a reader of The Unofficial Apple Weblog, has managed to get Front Row working on a Mac Mini, through some ‘tweaks’ as Front Row is only supported on new iMacs. To prove the legitimacy he recorded a video of it. I was not able to play the video, as it is in an MP4 format and the computer I am on doesn’t have QuickTime. I will check it out later though. Zeno had this to say:
Details: – Front Row transition effects run smooooth on the Mac mini (keep in mind there’s no G5 in the mini and it only has 32MB of vram). First time you launch it, you’ll be blown away, that’s for sure. – Front Row can be controlled from the keyboard (4 arrow keys, space bar and escape) – As you can see in the video, I managed to remote-control Front Row from my SonyEricsson K700 via Bluetooth: using one of the built-in Bluetooth HID profile (no Salling Clicker needed, even if, of course, you could do that with Salling Clicker too) – Because of those ‘tweaks’ (ok, call them ‘hacks’) Front Row on the Mac mini is not working 100% properly (Videos and Photos were ok, but had some problems with DVD and Music)
There is also a Flickr photoset here, from which the above picture is from, though this is from another Mac Mini. There is a guide that shows you how to do this. It uses a hacked version of Front Row which you can download via a torrent. It seems a bit risky to me so I’ll see what other people say before I try it myself. I don’t want to hurt the mini.
Video (M4V – 13MB)
UPDATE: The website that the guide was on has been removed (see for yourself)
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