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How to Enable Front Row on Mac OS X Lion

As it was first said back in February, OS X Lion brings many new innovations, but loses others, such as Front Row.  Front Row, for those who are unfamiliar with it, is a full screen media interface for the Mac. Front Row made its debut a couple of  OS X releases back, and essentially is the initial Apple TV interface.  Since the information comes out that the software is missing from Lion, a reader put together a little application to bring back the functionality. The reader figured out that he could take the Snow Leopard Front Row files and then compile it into a runnable application for OS X Lion.  For those interested, he took these files:

/Systems/Libary/CoreServices/Front Row.app
/Systems/Libary/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework
/Systems/Libary/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
/Systems/Libary/LauchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist

/Applications/Front Row.app 

Many people have tried out the application and the tweak works, but you do have to restart.  Please only do this at your own risk.  Since this is so easy, maybe Apple will slap Front Row into the Mac App Store and charge $4.99 in the future!

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