Sharing content to your HD TV, Screen or Whiteboard, second in a series
Teachers, pay attention to this one. I've written before about Airplay and AirParrot 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 content when more than one device is sending content to it. In our Pi Afternoon Learners meeting where we used it, AirServer had no trouble organizing up to 10 different devices sending content. On the computer running AirServer, one double clicks on one of these to open it fully.
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 content when more than one device is sending content to it. In our Pi Afternoon Learners meeting where we used it, AirServer had no trouble organizing up to 10 different devices sending content. On the computer running AirServer, one double clicks on one of these to open it fully.

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