You can give AirParrot 2 a test run for seven days for free. It will also let you use Airplay directly through your Chromecast. You’ll need another application to get those parts to play together.ĪirParrot 2 is an application that will allow you to mirror or extend your Mac desktop to your Chromecast. Normally a Mac won’t let you cast (mirror) your whole desktop or a Google Chrome browser tab with a Chromecast device–not natively, anyway. Here’s one example: as a Mac user, how do you extend your desktop or use Airplay through your Google Chromecast device? This article will look at a fairly simple way to get this setup working right now. And yet, getting all your gadgets to work together the way you want them to can be a much bigger headache than it should be sometimes.