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Skinning Front Row to look like Apple TV



You say your Intel Mac has Apple TV envy? It's understandable, as the Apple TV is suddenly everyone's favorite gadget. Boost its ego a bit with this trick for "skinning" Front Row to make it look more like Apple TV's UI.

It's quite simple, really, as it's just a matter of replacing Front Row's image files with those from the Apple TV. You can even edit the default menus to display the "Apple TV" title. You can download all of the files you'll need - as well as the instructions - here (remember: Back up your resource files first!). When you're finished, it will look like the image above.

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You say your Intel Mac has Apple TV envy? It's understandable, as the Apple TV is suddenly everyone's favorite gadget. Boost its ego a bit...
 

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john Brame

Can someone please send me it:

john88@gmail.com

June 17 2007 at 10:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sebastien

Could someone email it to me plz ?
babas152@gmail.com

March 28 2007 at 4:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macjunk

Pleas mail it to me, i was to late! mac@jelle.nu

March 28 2007 at 5:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Goobimama

Thank god I got it while it was still up. I guess I'll torrent it or something...

March 28 2007 at 3:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Callum Alden

humph :(

March 28 2007 at 3:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Will

Yes, Front Row in Leopard will look like the AppleTV UI. An employee at Macworld confirmed this as I was testing out the AppleTV. Usually, I wouldn't expect a lower level employee to know, let alone divulge, unreleased info, but he seemed sure, he'd been told by someone above him is my guess.

March 28 2007 at 12:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andre

It was demanding and to the point. I think I developed a new dislike for lawyers. :)

March 27 2007 at 6:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Callum Alden

damn it Apple legal team. get your priorities right; we are MAC fanboys (ouch, i just admitted that for the first time) and we're having a little fun with our computers. amongst friends... no one's being ripped off, your not loosing any 'cred or money. utter arseholes.

was the C&D nasty?

March 27 2007 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andre

An hour after this was posted I got a C&D. Sorry guys.

Do note that there's still mirrors on Digg in the comments, though. ;)

March 27 2007 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Goobimama

Works for me too. And now I know how to change those startup sounds to something else (maybe Vista's 19 months in development startup sound??? Just kidding)

March 27 2007 at 4:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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