![]() (remember we are not looking for a brilliant hacker deleting meta data, rather the class clown who has seen the latest apple keynote.)įINALLY if OP is still around I am really curious what you guys ended up doing to deal with this situation. If you are really determined to ruin this kids life because your teacher is an idiot (or the IT guy) then you can probably just hit command+i on the files and check out who the owner is. ![]() This was the school's negligence not the work of a brilliant hacker.ģ. For either of these services to work your teachers' and students' would have to be logged into the same wifi network. Unless you specifically go out of your way to enable airdrop to accept ANY AND ALL shared files, then not only would your teacher have had to open up airdrop in finder, but they would also have to accept the files that the student sent.Ģ. Here is my response to OP that I believe he should have received a year ago.ġ. I am going to assume this student probably sent **** or something similar to the laptop during lecture to get a laugh, which I am sure he/she/ze received. I too enjoy making things complicated, simply to see if it would work.) OS X requires Apple TV, if you aren't air playing to a another mac ( Why you would decline to use the second computer to browse the internet, instead of a complicated device daisy chain beats me, but too each their own. oddly you don't need apple tv to stream via your phone, rather you can natively send it to whatever smart OS your TV has. If you have an Apple TV then you have way more freedom, because you bought into their ecosystem. I digress.)Īirplay is available on both iOS and OS X but they behave differently, purposefully handicapped like airdrop. ![]() ![]() (Truthfully it's not that arbitrary, both facilitate communication between devices in their respective ecosystems via wifi, and very likely get handicapped so that they do not intrude on other markets. (which will show up conveniently in the sidebar.) TL DR: Don't bother with Airdrop, its been around since the dawn of wifi, and standard wifi sharing settings are incredibly easy to set up.Īirplay is basically Apple's version of Chromecast, (Google protocol for sending browser, video, desktop, etc through your wifi to another screen such as a TV.) They both have arbitrary limitations on what can or cannot be streamed. Besides if I decide to transfer a file via the local network, how is it easier than dragging and dropping into the targets local public dropbox/share folder. I rarely transfer files between mac's via wifi. For some reason, neither can send files from your Mac to your iPhone, but they work fantastically with android. They are however not the same.Īirdrop is the ****** second cousin twice removed from Bluetooth File Transfer. It's forgivable to confuse airdrop and airplay, because apple lacks the creativity to come up with new names. I know yosemite has had airplay from the start, possible Mavericks as well. It's almost a year later, (so this is really for anyone who comes here in the future), but if memory serves me right Yosemite was out last year by the time this post was written. I must be biased, so take it all with a grain of salt. In addition the next few paragraphs are definitions and my personal editorial commentary. Full Disclosure: I found this thread while looking for ways to screw with some vulnerable airplay devices in the school library, so OP probably wouldn't like me much.
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