Air Display: Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor, Without the Pain

The first app to pull this admittedly excellent prank was callediDisplay , but it was dull and dotty . gratefully , Air Display takes the pain and thwarting — and most importantly , the lag — out of using the iPad as a surplus monitor .

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As far as I can tell , Air Display ( from the same people who make the marvelous Air Sharing app ) uses the same fundamental john as iDisplay , setting up a virtual 2d monitor , and sending it to the iPad over Wi - Fi , presumably using VNC . As such , the close result is quite standardized : With Air Display , your iPad is a 2d monitor for your Mac — you may correct or arrange it in your display orientation just as you ’d adjust or do a regular monitor . Setting up the app is as childlike as download a node for your Mac , and choose your iPad ( running Air Display ) from a pull - down menu in the Menu Bar .

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Luckily , this is where the law of similarity end . Air Display is much , much quicker than iDisplay , to the pointedness that there ’s no lag at all in the mouse cursor , typed text shows up instantaneously ( in most apps — some , for whatever reason , slow down down during text edition input ) , and windows move with enough eloquence to be , at the very least , controllable . There ’s still noticeable lag during scrolling , which gets worse count on the size of the windowpane , and you wo n’t be able to look on video on here . In fact , even pasture the cyberspace is a bit annoying .

The client app is more refined than iDisplay ’s , by which I mean it work , and does n’t allow for uncanny , residual extra displays when you ’re not using the app . Lovely . ( A neat little trick I picked up : If you do n’t care OS X reconfiguring your admonisher every time you leave the Air Display app to answer a apprisal , you may set it to run temporarily in the background using the Jailbreak app Backgrounder . It works more or less flawlessly . )

When I imagine using the iPad as a second monitor , I imagine specific exercise scenario : In portrayal style , it ’s where I ’ll keep my AIM window , my Photoshop pallete , and my Twitter node . In landscape painting mode , It ’s where I ’ll keep RSS feed refreshing all day , or display Giz , to see how a post has turn out . It ’s a supplementary monitor , which in my thinker makes some slowness acceptable — but not too much . Air Display seldom slow down too much .

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My only hangups ? for keep things legato , Air Display engage some fairly aggressive compression , which is only apparent when thing are moving onscreen . ( Immediately after you intercept scroll , or locomote a window , the compression artifacts disappear . ) And it ’s not great at go for input via the iPad ’s screen , limit you to left - clicking , left - click dragging , and erratically show three-fold clicks , with no supplying for right dog . That say , if your goal is simply to use your iPad as a 2d monitor , you ’ll belike be fine just using your mouse . Touch stimulus is ice on the patty .

But then there ’s the price , correct at $ 10 for launch . But it ’s an easy economic value judgment : Do you require a second monitor lizard for your MacBook , for all the little desktop rubble you accumulate during the sidereal day ? Need a place to thrust all your social apps , or a second workspace for celebrate notes ? If you have a use like this in mind , $ 10 is a fine deal . If you do n’t , it ’s probably a fleck gamy .

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