Hi naquaada, yes i have the mce remote (apple remote already on my birthday list). cheers though..

Puutabong, That pick has made my mind up nice real nice..

you need the program Mira http://www.twistedmelon.com to use it. It's not too expensive, but you can control all MacOS programs with it, freely configurable.

naquaada, yes i discovered the mira app already. i stupidly though i could actually use my mce remote. i soon realised it was just the reciever that works. all part of the learning curve having mainly used ms oses and a few linux distro's including ubuntu with beryl then fusion till i found this new toy to play with. Must say having the most fun with Leopard tis a nice system well worth a purchase.

Quick question ? i am mainly a htpc geek (meedio,mediaportal) What is the best htpc app for leopard bar the rather nice Front Row.. i have looked at media central are there any others.

thank you in advance

Firewalk

Media Central, that's all what I know... I have a cr*cked version ;) I prefer FrontRow 1.3 from Tiger, have it working on Leo.
I really could recommend you the Apple Remote. It has only 6 keys, you can use it blind. On all other remotes you need several second to find the key you need.

naquaada, Why not just use Front Row thats with Leopard, is the tiger version better?.

hey firewalk i have that exact keyboard and i have gotten the media keys and every other extra key to work fine on this keyboard, just use the microsoft drivers for it, then you have to set up what u want those keys to go to, ie. mine is set up for itunes

@ Firewalk:

I like FrontRow 1.3 better 'cause it only has 4 options, it's much easier to control. And it looks better in my opinion. Already the startup sequence looks better (see screenshots). The importantst feature is during watching movies: FrontRow 1.3 remembers the last position you stopped a movie. If you start it later, you can select if want to continue or start it from beginning. FrontRow 2.0 starts always from beginning, and it's very annoying to fast forward an two-hour movie if you have only the left 20 minutes to watch. I'm always using FrontRow watching movies, so this function is absolutely neccessary for me.

http://naquaada.na.funpic.de/naq/osx86/pub/shots/frontrow/frontrow1.jpg
http://naquaada.na.funpic.de/naq/osx86/pub/shots/frontrow/frontrow2.jpg
http://naquaada.na.funpic.de/naq/osx86/pub/shots/frontrow/frontrow3.jpg
http://naquaada.na.funpic.de/naq/osx86/pub/shots/frontrow/frontrow4.jpg

A little tip to FrontRow: Problematic is maybe that it uses only uses the 'Movies' folder on your home directory, but I have my movies (nearly 100GB) on my second hard disk. This is simple: Uses Aliases. But you can do more with this: If you have movie files (avi/divx/mpg) you don't need so often that you won't have them on HD, you can burn 'em on DVD, sure. Problematic is, you can't use them with FrontRow from there. So I'm using for every movie DVD always the name 'Media DVD'. You now can also create an Alias to 'Media DVD' and put it into your Movies folder. If there's an DVD with this name in the drive you can access the files with FrontRow, if not the name isn't even listed in it. Works great.

Hi all, thanks for all the advice, im just gonna trash my microsoft k/b and get the mac one Puttabong suggested..

naquaada, with regards to front row, i see,yes your right the startup is much better in 1.3, in theory could i just replace leopard version with tiger or would i need to use my jas 10.4.8 install..thanks for the info on aliases, i am very new to the mac scene so i know very little bar getting it running on my system. i did run the deadmoo image in vmware a few years ago but it wasnt really useable on the system i had then, so i didnt get chance to learn much. i am slowly getting upto speed..

anyway thanks again all

Firewalk

you need the other FrontRow version and a little extension called IRKeyboardEmu.kext. That's all.