the mini Blog

First of all I’m going to say I do not condone hacking nor piracy. What I have done is purely for educational purposes only. So please don’t sue me Apple, I don’t have any money. Because of the nature of this ‘experiment’ I cannot provide links from where I got the files. All I can say is I used Apple’s legitimate Front Row updater to update the Front Row on the new iMac’s (w/ iSight) from v1 to v1.0.1. Pictures after the jump.
On with the task. So I downloaded the files and with tricks I installed Front Row into the ‘System/Library/Core Services’ folder. From here I used another application to bypass Front Row from looking for the Apple Remote. This Application also put a link to Front Row in the System Preferences so that I can change what key(s) I use to activate Front Row. I set it to ‘Cmd + F1′. This is a quick shortcut which I won’t forget and doesn’t interfere with anything else. That was it! I can now use Front Row (for educational purposes). I have taken some pictures below and the one above. Click on the, for an enlarged version. Sorry if the pictures aren’t great but I didn’t take the pictures in very good lighting conditions and the flash would have reflected off my LCD display. Enjoy!