How to Use iPad 2 as the Second Monitor?
- By Liwe Paus
- Published 04/19/2011
As far as I can tell, Air Display (from the same people who make the fantastic Air Sharing app) uses the same fundamental trick as iDisplay, setting up a virtual second monitor, and sending it to the iPad over Wi-Fi, presumably using VNC. As such, the end result is quite similar: With Air Display, your iPad is a second monitor for your Mac—you can adjust or arrange it in your display preferences just as you'd adjust or arrange a regular monitor. Setting up the app is as simple as downloading a client for your Mac, and selecting your iPad (running Air Display) from a pull-down menu in the Menu Bar.
While there are different software options for the main computer, I suggest using ScreenRecycler. ScreenRecycler is a handy piece of software that sets up a virtual screen on your Mac and allows you to extend your desktop over to it. It installs its own driver, and even works with spaces as a real second monitor would do.Once ScreenRecycler is installed, you can connect to it with not only an iPad, but with any computer that uses a VNC client, including Windows and Linux machines. For our uses we will focus on the iPad.
Laptop Installation
Once you have the ScreenRecycler app downloaded, copy it to your applications directory (or directory of your choice), and launch. On the first launch you will get a message that the driver needs to be installed, and prompts you for permission. Install the driver, and relaunch. Now you are ready to have something connected, so let’s look at what you need on the iPad.
The iPad Software
The iPad only needs to be a VNC client in order to act as our new extended monitor, and there are several choices on the App Store. You can let the price be your guide if you want a full featured VNC client, or you can use a free lite version for this purpose. After all, we don’t need to control the computer from the iPad, we just need to display the screen. A quick look on the App Store reveals several choices for the iPad, but we have used Mocha VNC with great success. Other choices include VNC Viewer and iTeleport. Please note that the otherwise excellent iSSH, which incorporates a VNC viewer, failed to make connection with the ScreenRecycler app on a regular basis.More ipad software: dvd to ipad for mac | ipad video converter for mac
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