iPhone TIPS: Stream Videos To Your Mac with AirPlay For FREE [without Jailbreak or Apple TV]

Question: Can I use Airplay without owning a Apple TV (2th Gen). Answer, yes you can! Question: Okay How can I stream from my iPhone, iPod or iPad and to where? Answer: You only need to have iOS 4.2 running on your iDevice. With that you can stream photo's video's and YouTube to your Mac OSX device. No iTunes is needed, no Jailbreak is needed and it is free! Question: Please tell me how to do it? Simple download the mac program called AirPlayer from well known fellow blogger writer and developer Erica Sadun HERE. Then execute Airplayer on the Mac OSX device which is connected to the same Lan connection on the WiFi netwerk of your iOS 4.2 iDevice. You are ready to go. Question: How to stream photo's and video's. Answer: Apple TV owners should be familliar with the AirPlay button when open an photo in your photos app. It is a blue white square with a bluewhite-solid triangle. Just hit that button, which you will find when viewing photo or viewing a youtube movie. 

Example of a YouTube video on my iPhone 4. Tap the AirPlay button, to start selecting the destination device next.

It then pop-up with a selection buttons for stream destinations. Among them, you will see a button of your Mac OSX devices, which could be a Macbook, iMac or a Pro.

Hit the button of the Mac OSX device and your iDevice is streaming the pictures to your bigg ass computer screen. 

Tap the Mac OSX device as the destination of your video stream.

This is what you see on your big Mac OSX computer.

Note as a iPhone owner, that at this moment, you can stream your own videos but not the ones from your camera roll. This is a known behavior of iOS 4.2 (1) and will hopefully fixed in the next iOS update. If you own a Apple TV (2th gen like me) then you must have noticed this strange missing feature. The AirPlayer is at the moment in beta. 
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