Front Row

I figured out a way to get Front Row to work on my Mac Mini and use the AirClick Remote I have on my Mac to control it all. All that being said, I'm not sure it's all that great. It uses iPhoto, which is a horrible app for picture display, especially when it's compared with a free application like Picasa. The video piece ties in nicely to iTunes, and it has some cool movie preview technology that's very slick, along with the ability to view music videos and tv shows you've downloaded. It looks sweet on my 52" HDTV - I'm just not sure the capability is all that special. It's really just packaged existing mac functionality into a nice interface - nothing real new that I can see. After dinking around in the core of the Mac OS, I continue to be blown away by how powerful it is and how it just crushes the Windows Operating system in terms of functionality, capability and architecture. The interface for application installation is so simple, but the unix core gives you the ability to customize at least at the same level as can be down in XP or a server environment.