AirServer

Over the last couple of weeks, AirServer has been a complete life saver when it came to casting multiple devices to TV during a meeting.

If you’re a fan of Spreadsheets, gantt charts and powerpoint style keynotes, those couple of weeks would have scratched anyones itch for a numerous years. To make things worse it was a complete mixture of devices and operating systems - trying to display content to a 50inch TV. Don’t get me started on the different types of dongles and adaptors on offer.

Enough was enough there had to be a simple solution to serve all needs, an Apple TV would of filled this spot - if the users from the Windows dark side hadn’t have turned up.

So with AirServer on my MacBook Air - connect to the TV, the other members of the meeting happly displayed their overly animated Powerpoints, followed by Google spreadsheets wide enough to make THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY look like a short story.

Currently Windows to Mac mirror casting isn’t working, due the way intel based chips in windows shares screen information, and how Macs receive information. But Google Cast or Chrome Cast information can be streamed from a Windows machine using Chrome to a Mac running Air Server. (Windows to Windows works just fine.)