Wish you had an(other) extra monitor for your Mac? There’s an app for that!
Or, at least, there will be soon.
Avatron Software has finished their beta cycle for iPad app “Air Display” and will submit it to Apple for App Store approval tomorrow.
Now the waiting begins.
More info here.
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I’m so going out to buy an iPad right now.
Yes but will it THEN run flash?!?!?
So I can buy a 21″ LCD for $160 or spend $500 for an iPad? This app is useful how, exactly?
I really hate it here in the walled in garden, without Adobe to innovate.
If it is cheap, maybe…..
Lance, this isn’t a replacement for a second monitor, for those who need one.
It’s an alternative for those who could use the extra screen real estate, and already have an iPad anyway.
I mean, if you have it already, why not?
OMG! Yes yes yes!
@Lance
You seem to forget the iPad is useful for many reasons, not just one. So, if you own one or are going to buy one for whatever reason, this app will add extra functionality. I can think of a number of uses for it right off the top of my head. Just because an app won’t motivate you to buy an iPad in an of itself, doesn’t mean the app has no usefulness.
@ Lance
You’re so smart. I’m going to return my iPad today and get a cheap LCD display instead. You know, because I haven’t been using my iPad at all for any purpose and was just crossing my fingers all this time that an external display app would come out.
@ Lance
Sorry, dude. If I’d known three other people were gonna rip you in a row, too, I’d have spared you.
insufficient network bandwidth for this to work well, think: ARD screen sharing
It would be great for a laptop. Much easier to carry around than an external monitor and it does not need to be plugged in.
What we really need is something that allows the iPad screen to be projected for viewing in a classroom or meeting, not just Keynotes and videos. Steve can do it; why can’t the rest of us?
Come on developers, get to work. This is the single biggest stumbling block keeping iPads out of schools.
@midwestmac
Yeah but yours was the best
@ Rob
The ‘killer app’ for that would be to enable screen mirroring. Next OS upgrade? I sacrificed a freshman for it during the last new moon. (But the univ pres was ticked — seems I lost a “revenue stream.”)
I wonder if it will allow the touch capacities. Might be more fun to make the computer into an extra monitor for the iPad. Just saying.
It’s a good idea, but what I really want is a way to use the ipad as an input device for the Mac.
-jcr
oooohhh. john! I like that idea. Would be great for artists & etc. Someone could perhaps mirror the image of the Mac to the iPad and allow artists to create (perhaps with a *the horror* stylus). I don’t think the iPad is touch sensitive, but that could be offset by perhaps creatively using multi touch (and minor training)… oh f it.. just get a wacom tablet.
Anyone know if iPad is touch sensitive? Haven’t heard such thought anywhere yet.
Gotta love people like Lance! I kinda feel bad for the flack he’s getting, but it wasn’t the most thought out comment.
Didn’t describe things well.. when I said “touch sensitive”, I meant “pressure sensitive”.
@ John C. Randolph
Good idea.
RE: Lance
No, you don’t gotta love them. He sounds like Apple rivalry somehow, perhaps a bitter CEO.. Ignorance is bliss and sometimes deliberate.
@ Lance
Next time you get up and leave your desk, pick up that 21″ LCD and walk away with it. Let me know if it still works.
My understanding is that Air Display does act as an input device. You’re supposed to be able to touch the screen and drag windows around with your finger, or press button controls. And video mirroring is supposed to work too… although I don’t think I’d want to do that so much.
iDisplay has been around since the iPad was released. Sounds like the same thing – we’ll see if it actually works well enough to be useful.