Sadun's new Mac utility sniffs out your second-generation Apple TV over the network, then lets you paste the URL of an iTunes-friendly file that you want to play on it. You can even drag in a file from your Mac that you don’t necessarily want to manage in iTunes. Hit the play button and your Mac begins acting like a giant iOS device, streaming the media to your Apple TV sans iTunes.
AirFlick’s functionality is simple for now; Sadun is upfront about this being a very early alpha of the software. But she also sees a lot of potential for AirFlick, stating that it could eventually offer real-time transcoding and AirPlay streaming of file types that are not natively supported in the iTunes and iOS ecosystem.
For now, though, you can download the AirFlick 0.01 alpha from . She offers it as donationware but without tech support, so tinker at your own risk.