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Turn your iPad into a second monitor for your Mac.
Scott Stein: Hi I'm Scott Stein, Senior Associated Editor at cnet.com and I'm going to show you have to turn your iPad into a second monitor for your laptop or desktop. Well first of all this is for Mac's only although there will be Widow support for this soon and secondly it's going to require 9.99 App called Air Display that's available now in the App Store.
Now these types of apps have been available before but none have really quite worked so well as this one and how it works is it set up a wireless connection using Wi-Fi connecting locally between your computer and you iPad to actually extend your interface and make it a second monitor like you'd have if you bought a large monitor and connected it yourself. Now there is a little bit of delay bit but it worked so fast and so nicely that if you are traveling and you happen to have both devices you could find this great if you want to work on two document side-by-side and hey it even plays flash and will even stream a little bit of Hulu although at a slower frame rate and no it is not carry an audio signal. Now while the app is 9.99 and that's not cheap for an app its lot cheaper then what you do invest in the second monitor and its lot more portable and it's a way to use your iPad in a different manner if you are traveling.
Now what you do is really simple when you download the app and started it up it actually gives you an instruction screen that tells you how to download the software and then you download it on your Mac and it installs a toolbar at that top that you can use to connect to turn it on and if you are both on the same wireless network that has to happen then it will show you list of other iPad's that are in range probably yours is the only iPad in the range unless you are at an Apple Store you are in a massive iPad consumer. So you select that one and then a little bit of a flash will occur and then both should be linked.
Now the iPad can work in both portrait and landscape mode which is nice although you may want to keep the orientation lock on because we found when you twisted it kind of seems to throw off the syncing it can cause it to disconnect. But when its one the mouse arrow will actually work across you can drag any Window back and forth the same way you work with a monitor. It's using the iPad's native resolution which is good but its definitely not 13 inch its lower than 1366 by 768. So you will going to have to resize things a little bit, and the cool thing is it actually allows touch interface.
So yes you can actually touch and control web browser users you can click on links, you can even drag and highlight although that's a little bit corky in version 1.0 and if you bring up a browser based or other type of paint program you could actually draw in it using the touch interface but as you see it's a little bit at slower speed you may want to just simply download brushes or sketch book pro or any of the other great and affordable tools on the iPad and use those.
And that brings up another point you know you can use the iPad as a secondary display without this. In fact you know you can set it up next to your computer bring up email, bring up the web browser that are built into the iPad and you get a sort of secondary computing experience as this. I'm Scott Stein and that's how you can setup an iPad to be a second monitor for your Mac.
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