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cherylchase@drupal.org asks: QuestionI have a mac mini that I use as an entertainment center. It doesn’t have a keyboard. I just installed a Gyration air mouse, but I was dismayed to find that Front Row ignores the mouse. Is there a way to get Front Row to listen to the mouse? Thanks, Cheryl AnswerYes, with additional software to map the buttons to keystrokes, you can control Front Row with any human-input device. Take either the software it comes with, if it does, or a third-party generic tool like USB Overdrive and map the buttons on the device to the keystrokes used to control Front Row via the keyboard. When Front Row is not active, one of the buttons should map to ⌘-ESC to invoke Front Row. You would then setup USB Overdrive to have a profile just for Front Row that maps the keys as specified at the end of the article on using Teleport to control Front Row from another computer.
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 Author Biography Adam Knight is one of the founders of Mac Geekery and is a geek at heart. Programmer by day, hacker by night, his daily life revolves around the Macintosh platform, which he has been a user and programmer for since the early days of System 7 when his LCII replaced his Apple //c. In-between tech jobs, he’s managed to learn the basics of any web hacker: PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, *BSD, and the intricacies of ./configure —prefix=~/bombshelter/. Today, codepoet is concentrating on blogging again, writing some software for the Mac by himself (including Notae) and for his company (such as Switchblade) and has a few other toys coming out soon. Bug him over AIM or email [link fixed].
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