FrontRow and PhotoBooth on BitTorrent
9:24 pm, October 25th, 2005,
Apple’s FrontRow and PhotoBooth software are both available on BitTorrent, even though they’re supposed to be restricted to the new iMac.
It took about two minutes to find and download PhotoBooth. Thirty seconds later I was snapping fun pics with the kids using a PowerBook and an iSight camera.
FrontRow, which allows you to control your music, photos, and DVDs from the couch, has been hacked so that it doesn’t look for the iMac remote control it is supposed to ship with. Instead, the hacked version works with any keyboard. I got it running on the PowerBook and a Power Mac G5.
In fact, FrontRow is pretty useless without a remote, but I hooked it to an old Keyspan external USB remote-control, and it works perfectly, though it is slow to load the music and video libraries.
There are also reports of it working with bluetooth keyboards and the free Romeo remote-control software (which is compatible with a limited selection of Sony Ericsson phones and the Nokia 3650).
Update: The DVD player in the hacked FrontRow doesn’t work — at least not for me. Too bad.
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PhotoBooth out in the wild
I didn’t think it would take long before PhotoBooth and FrontRow got out into the wild. BitTorrent seems to be the escape route of choice nowerdays. I’m not too bothered about FrontRow myself. Of course it would be great to
What is that, to be over 30 and not know where you'll be in a month or two?, on October 26th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Original publicidad del iPod nano en Tokio
… con las miles de personas que pasan a diario por la estación de metro de Shibuya, no debe de ser nada fácil conseguir una.
Via: Cult of Mac
nipoblog, on October 26th, 2005 at 2:37 am
Original publicidad del iPod nano en Tokio
… con las miles de personas que pasan a diario por la estación de metro de Shibuya, no debe de ser nada fácil conseguir una.
VÃÂa: Cult of Mac
nipoblog, on October 26th, 2005 at 2:55 am
Any luck getting the DVD player to work? I was thinking about swinging by the apple store to get a copy of the DVD player on the new iMac. Wonder if it’ll work?
applekoolaid, on October 26th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
applekoolaid — i couldn’t get the DVD player to work, unfortunately.
Leander, on October 26th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
where can I download the photobooth torrent file from?
WizardGns, on October 27th, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Applekoolaid has the right idea. I’m betting there’s a new build that enables FR to access DVD player. If you notice, FR will launch iPhoto, iTunes when you try to access that media. Seems a bit silly to me. Wouldn’t you only need access to the XML files (Library info)? Guess that’s why they put it on a G5, and why we peons are having slowness…
Victor Agreda, Jr., on October 28th, 2005 at 11:51 am
Hey, any idea how I could get my hands on a copy with just an ordinary Powerbook? I downloaded BitTorrent but I’m not sure how to use it, any easier way? Thanks!
Pete, on January 1st, 2006 at 6:32 pm
You said that you’ve downloaded photobooth software for mac os X. Could you give the exact address for me? i’ve downloaded bittorrent but it doesn’t work. i really interest to photobooth, yet i only have ibook. so i’m looking for the free software. please help. thank you.
Melur, on August 29th, 2006 at 4:14 pm