AirPlay is a very, very cool technology. Unfortunately, if you don’t own an Apple TV 2 or other capable receiving device, it’s not going to do you much good. (If you have the cash on-hand, for $99 Apple TV mark 2 is a pretty sweet purchase. Just saying.) So I decided to figure out a way that people who didn’t own Apple TV or who were on the road with their iPhone and a laptop could actually use AirPlay streaming ‘backwards’ — from their iDevice to their Mac.
Behold the development build of AirPlayer — click Read More to see the video. What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate with each other over local area networks. When Apple created AirPlay, it basically set up a new way for Apple TV to interact with iOS using Bonjour communications.
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