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Air Display

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Ever wish you had an extra display for your Mac or Windows computer? There's an app for that! With Air Display, you can use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch as a wireless display, to extend your computer desktop. Developed by Avatron Software, home of the popular Air Sharing apps, Air Display lets you position your iOS device next to your computer, drag windows onto it, and interact with those windows as you would on any other computer display.

****** BREAKING NEWS: The Windows support software for Air Display is live now, as a public beta. ******

Air Display's performance is extremely responsive, employing a unique dynamic compression algorithm. On a typical Wi-Fi network, mouse cursor refreshes are indistinguishable from a wired mouse.

Air Display works in both landscape and portrait configurations. Just rotate your screen, and it automatically reconfigures.

Air Display makes a laptop much more useful. Adding the iPad's 1024x768 display nearly doubles the screen area of a laptop or netbook.

Air Display not only gives you a wireless computer screen extender, but also works as a tablet input device. You can use your finger to draw directly on the screen's surface. Try it with a calculator app, painting tool, or music control surface!

Some great uses for Air Display:

• Fill your Air Display screen with your utility apps, like iChat, Mail, iCal, and Calculator.
• Amaze your friends by playing Flash animations on an iOS device!
• Graphic design: Make Photoshop and Illustrator usable on your laptop by putting your tool palettes on the iOS screen.
• Music: Use your iOS screen as a wireless control surface for Logic or Pro Tools.
• Programming: Use the extra display area for such auxiliary development tools as Console, Terminal, and the Debugger.
• Business: Move all of your iWork and Office palettes and inspector windows onto Air Display, and let your document fill the screen.
• Find your own uses.

On first launch, Air Display presents easy instructions for downloading and installing the companion support software for your desktop computer.

*** COMPATIBILITY ***

MAC OS X

Air Display requires 10.5.8 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later, on an Intel CPU. Both 32-Bit & 64-Bit systems are supported. Users of new MacBook Pros with dual graphics hardware should disable Automatic Graphics Switching when using any virtual frame buffer (including Air Display). The Air Display installer will configure that for you.

WINDOWS

Air Display requires Windows XP (32-bit only), or Vista or 7 (32-bit or 64-bit). Windows 7 Starter edition is not supported.

NETWORK

In order for Air Display to work your computer and iOS device must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

iPHONE 4

Please note that this version does not shrink the computer pixels down to native-sized Retina pixels. This may change in a future update.

What's new

Universal: iPhone + iPad
iOS 4 support
iPhone 4 support
More reliable network connection
New look for instructions page

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Last changed:

Jun 24, 2010

Category:

Productivity

Developer:

Avatron Software, Inc.

Version:

1.1

Average Rating:

3.50 (642)

Size:

2.4 MB

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