“With AirServer 3.0, released yesterday, the developers have completely re-engineered AirServer to fully take advantage of iOS 5′s AirPlay and Lion compatibility,” Federico Viticci reports for MacStories.
“I’ve tested the app last night, and it’s already working fine on the Golden Master releases of iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2,” Viticci reports. “Once you’ve installed AirServer 3.0 as a preference pane (it’s also got a new iCloud-like icon) and assigned a name to your Mac (the one that will show up in the list of AirPlay devices on iOS), you’ll be able to send music, photos and videos to your Mac.”
Viticci reports, “At $7.99, AirServer is a complete solution to turn your Mac into an AirPlay receiver for music, photos and videos.”
Read more in the full article here.
So if you already have an apple TV, what would be the point of this?
Maybe your AppleTV and Mac are in different rooms? Maybe collage kids with laptops?
Don’t you just love those ‘collages’?
Just call them University kids, it’s Canadian.
I am going to use this to turn an old mac mini and two old laptop as music receivers in the master bedroom and our offices. We use Airport Expresses and an Apple TV in other rooms of the house for this purpose, but instead of buying more, we are simply going to use existing hardware.
What I wanted was an AirPlay TRANSMITTER for the Mac (besides iTunes sending photos, music, and videos from the library). I mean for Safari! I found out that the developer of ClickToFlash has a plugin called Media Center. It let’s you AirPlay from the Mac to Apple TV. Not as elegant as Apple’s own solution will one day be, but it definitely works!
One if I’m checking something out on the Mac that I want to share, I don’t have to find it on my iOS device before I can share on the TV. In fact, it’s a little better. For instance, on YouTube, once I send the current video to the ATV, I can look up a different video while it’s playing. Or do other stuff. Good job Marc Hoyois!!
Oh, and like his ClickToFlash and ClickToPlugin extensions, it’s free!! (But I’m sure he appreciates donations…)
Free it is not. Unless I am missing something.
Did you go to hoyois.github.com? I know that I got it for free.
Can you send Hulu from your
Mac to ATV ? With Media Center?
Not sure. But it definitely did not work on CBS.com as yet. But embedded video and YouTube works fine.
Opj’s the trolls reply doesnt bother me, he either didn’t have coffee yet or hasnt been laid in years, if ever. This seems un-necessary to me, since whatever you have on your iOs device, would be on your mac at sync time, but whatever floats your boat. DMac’s idea seems much better and useful.
Opj ain’t a virgin, but it’s just gross to contemplate the person who took his virginity.
You assume someone only has one Mac, which isn’t a safe assumption. I sync with my Macbook pro; that doesn’t make anything available to my Macs at work, Macs at other people’s houses, or even to Macs in another room when I don’t have the Macbook pro open and logged on my home network.
Check out Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba. Not free; it’s $25 so not cheap. I guess you’ll have to decide if it’s worth it to you. I haven’t taken the plunge yet, but I keep thinking about it…
This is audio only. A god app, though.
Personally I’d class unwarranted shouting and censorship to be just as offensive.
Robert: My post has so far garnered seven replies in an hour and half, which means that, according to most forum usage studies and metrics, at least seven people will be repeatedly returning to this page to see if anyone has replied to their replies. There are very few things MDN won’t approve when they spur those kinds of metrics.
bubba: You sick, twisted little bastard. All I mentioned was having sex with trondude’s mother and sister; I naturally assumed that most readers would interpret that as being a claim by me that I’ve had sex with trondude’s mom and sister, and that the experiences were different. Where you get incest from that I don’t know. My specific words were “Just like fucking *your* mother is different than fucking *your* sister.” (Emphasis added for anyone suffering the same brain enfeeblement as bubba.) Your sad, loathsome, mentally disturbed brain substituted “my” for “your.” The illness is yours, not mine. Or maybe you just to read too good.
What you really need to ask yourself, bubba, is what disgusting internalized longing you suffer from that would make you externalize those desires onto someone else?
By the way, trondude’s question was idiotic–the software in question beams to macs, not apple tvs, so has absolutely nothing to do with apple tv.
What a strange site–I’m surrounded by idiots and closeted incest freaks.
OPJ,
I know what you meant. I deliberatly twisted your statement to make it appear that you are into incest. I did that because i’ve never seen anyone at MDN go off on someone in the completely unjustified and vulgar way that you did to TronDude.
You absolutly deserved someone treating you as poorly as you treated TronDude. If you don’t like it, then next time think before you post.
Dude,
You need to pull your head out of your linear thinking brain(and I’m being generous assuming that you really have a brain). What I mentioned was IF you have an apple TV, not IF you did not. IF you do not, then maybe this is a solution for you. Go for it. Try and THINK DIFFERENT loser, but don’t assume that it is an idiotic question, your response to it was much more idiotic and moronic, and quite frankly, pathetic.
God you are an idiot. This program has nothing to do with an Apple TV. An Apple TV plugs into a TV. This program lets you send to a Mac. Whether you have an Apple TV or not doesn’t matter. The only thing having an Apple TV does is let you send to a TV. Having an Apple TV doesn’t let you send to a Mac; this program does. Your initial question was fucking retarded. It would have made just as much sense if you had said, “So if you already have a microwave oven, what would be the point of this?” or “So if you already have a ’73 Gremlin, what would be the point of this?” What about this do you not understand?
Yes I understand. This is a program that allows you to AirPlay directly to a mac. Duh. What I was pointing out was IF and only IF you HAVE a APPLE TV, this program seems unnecessary.why would I want to AirPlay to a MAC IF and only IF I have an apple tv? It has nothing to do about if you have an apple tv AND this program. What is it that YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, BITCH????
I OWN YOU ANYWAYS!!!!
Will I be able to print from my iPhone or iPad to a printer connected to a Mac running AirServer?
You can’t just use AirPrint?
Sorry, forgot you need an AirPrint-compatible printer (despite what Steve promised). But there are workarounds that will make it work with other printers, and third-party wireless printing apps.