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Building on previous posts, I wanted to add to the mix another cool function for easy live sharing of photos among a group. Beamair is an IOS app and website that allows an iPhone or iPad user to "start a session" by pointing to their camera role of photos or PDFs. The site provides a simple site URL that represents the session, and allows sharing vie email and social media. So anyone anywhere with a web connection to whom you send the URL can access the session and watch the scrolling show of content. Have you ever wanted to show some photos to a group without a large screen available, or wanted to share to a dispersed group.  You can start a session, let folks know the discrete URL, and voila!  Again, thanks to the Pi's Mobile Lifestyle Sig for demonstrating this.

Teachers, pay attention to this one.  I've written before about  Airplay and AirParro t to use an Apple TV attached to an HD TV to send content to the TV from Macs, PCs and mobile devices.  But assume for example you're a teacher, and there's no Apple TV, just a computer that's connected in any way to a TV, to a projector, or even to a classroom whiteboard. Would you like to easily get content from multiple mobile devices to that TV or projector?  Install AirServer on your computer.  If there are iphones and ipads that are either Airplay enabled or with AirParrot installed, those users can send their screens  to the computer that's running AirServer , and the content from those devices appears on the computer and the larger screen. Interestingly, AirServer is more clever than the Apple TV using Airplay in one respect.  The Apple TV only allows one device at a time to appear on the screen.  With AirServer, it cleverly tiles the mirrored con...