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Remembering Front Row, the Apple TV precursor on your Mac

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Whooummm! With that sound, wherever you were in your Mac, the Front Row interface swung into view.</p><p>
Front Row was fab. Introduced first on the iMac G5, this was Apple’s “10-foot UI,” a way of interacting with your music, movies, and photos in a simplified interface so that you didn’t have to be sitting directly in front of it with a keyboard and mouse. Instead, you could lounge on the sofa and use Apple’s dinky new infra-red remote control to play DVDs, podcasts, shared music from other iTunes Libraries on your network, to bore your friends rigid with slideshows of your holidays in iPhoto, and more. </p><p>
Unsurprisingly, it was Front Row, as much as anything, that got folks thinking about using a Mac as a media center (http://www.macworld.com/article/1140088/macmini_mediacenter_frontrow.html), and it was a great way of giving a new lease on life to a Mac after you’d upgraded to a newer model. Or indeed, you could do what I did and use it as an excuse to buy a new Mac—in my case, a little Intel Core Solo Mac mini, which spent years hooked up first to a huge, fuzzy 21-inch Philips CRT TV, and later a 32-inch Samsung flatscreen which, in hindsight, had gigantic bezels. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2915635/remembering-front-row-the-apple-tv-precursor-on-your-mac.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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