While the iMac G5′s software interface for multimedia – Front Row – is new to the Mac platform. Windows users have had similar tools – in Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition – for a couple of years now. Is it possible that, as Front Row matures, it could learn a thing or two from Windows?
Feel the music
For music, Front Row gives you a large, text only interface with few options. You can shuffle the playback order of songs and search by several criteria. You can’t create playlists, but you can access playlists you’ve already created in iTunes. And you can’t browse internet radio stations, but you can access stations you’ve bookmarked in iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »