iPad Tips and Tricks: Turn Your iPad Into A Secondary Display

Posted Feb 6, 2011 at 12:25PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: iPad Tips & Tricks Tags: AirDisplay, apple

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Avatron has a nice little app called Air  Display that will take your iPad and turn it into a secondary external monitor for your Mac or Windows PC. The only function of the Air Display app is to create a second screen for you and it performs this task quite well.  You need to have a small program running in order to use AirDisplay but once you have that you are pretty much good to go. Although Air Display is available for your iPhone it's really much better utilized on the larger screen of the iPad. Setting up Air Display is pretty easy.  After you get the app installed on your iPad you then install the client on your PC.  Next run it and right click on the icon displayed in your system tray for Windows users or in the menu bar for OSX.

Now just go to the menu and select your iPad which should be listed there.  Your screen will go blank and refresh and once it comes back on you will see your desktop on your iPad.  From here you can simply use your mouse to pull a window over to the iPad and you are all set up with your second display. Air Display's performance is smooth and there isn't any noticeable lag in response time.  Once you launch the app it also connects to your computer very quickly so you won't be sitting around waiting or configuring a lot of settings. Air Display will cost you $9.99 which isn't cheap for an app, however it is a lot less expensive than purchasing a second monitor.

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