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New app lets you use iPad as 2nd monitor for your Mac

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Software developers Avatron, well known for their Air Sharing apps allowing users to drag & drop files between their Macs and iPhones/iPods like an external hard disk, are getting ready to release their newest app for iPad, Air Display, that lets you use the newly released Apple product as a 2nd monitor for your Mac.

 

The app uses Wi-Fi to transmit video data between the Mac and the iPad, and there's a System Preference pane that needs to be installed on the Mac in addition to the actual app itself on the iPad. The app also allows for the iPad's touch screen to be used in addition to the Mac's keyboard & mouse, so you can actually "click" on the iPad's screen by touching it. Pretty neat!

 

Air Display is expected to be submitted on the App Store next week at a price of $9.99. Lets hope this one gets through the approval process unlike the previously featured Wi-Fi Sync app we covered last month.

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errandwolfe

Very kewl, I mean I would certainly pay $600 for a tiny second monitor...

 

Actually this seems like a really kewl app, especially since the touch screen acts as an input on the Mac. Thinking about how useful this would be as a mirrored display say when you are sitting on your couch.

 

Does the iPad already have a remote desktop client that might be more efficient though?

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Uncle Dannie

mcgyvernewt, please post your experience with this app. I ordered my iPad but it won't arrive for another week. If this app works, it will be on my 'Must-have' list.

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Jultec
Very kewl, I mean I would certainly pay $600 for a tiny second monitor...

 

lol!!

 

 

Yah lag must be terrible so no use for live vj performances.. :/

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