I would argue that as long as front row is the front most app, all you need to hit is escape to activate it. and navigate via arrow keys (left/right) and enter (select) and escape (go back one level, including exiting the app). At least, this is my experience on my powerbo...uh, computer.

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I just tried running front row on my powerbook and noticed something interesting when you are connected to an external monitor.

Set the arrangement of the monitors so that the external display is on the left. Click into the "Photos" section and notice where the first thumbnail is actually drawn before it slides into the main monitor's space.

Here is a screenshot showing the position of the image thumbnail before it slides in. The gray space on the left of the image is the 2nd monitor's desktop background picture. The duplication of the thumbnail is a result of my movie capture software choking during the transition animation.

http://www.mattbinkowski.com/images/frontrow_thumbnail.jpg

Does anyone know how Apple captures the transitions as shown on their website (http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/dashboard.html)?

Another thing is that Front Row responds to the same slow motion animation as the dock by holding the shift key down.

Well, with my hacked FrontRow on my 17" imac g4, to activate it, I press Command + Esc. then u can use tha arrowkeys to navigate and enter to select, Esc to go back.

And for the record, the Apple Store in Cambridge Ma has photobooth on the dock, they even had .mac accounts setup with email so i could mail myself the pics of me and my girlfriend back to my home email.

Apple (surprisingly!) doesn't leave small, easily shoplift-able remotes sitting around on counters where anyone could put the devices in their pocket and leave the store.

I don't know about the Apple Store near you, but at the one near me, on of the salespeople who works the floor almost always has a remote with them available for demonstration.

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Now I know why command escape doesn't work to pause VirtualPC anymore. Anyone know how to re-enable this shortcut in VirtualPC?

disable or change the front row shortcut in prefs - keyboard - keyboardshortcuts will do the trick, i guess.

This shortcut is one of the apple globally-modifyable keywords that shows up in the Keyboard preferences pane.

I came up with this idea last night,tried it and it works. The idea is that you can control Front Row with OS X speech commands. I haven't set all the commands yet. I named my computer "Eve" so the commands I have so far are...

"Eve, Front Row' which activates front row. Saying it again deactivates it.
"Eve, Move Left" moves the main menu to the left
"Eve, Move Right" moves the main menu to the right
"Eve, Enter" selects the current menu.
"Eve, Move Down' goes down the selections

It seems that somewhere around 10.4.9, this was changed to cmd-F8