Air Display
By Avatron Software, Inc.
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Description
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.
“Have you ever looked at your iPad and thought, ‘That would make a great second monitor for my computer!’?” —Wall Street Journal
“The app worked like a charm by providing more screen real estate.” —USA Today
“Air Display lets you take advantage of the iPad’s native touch screen, meaning you can use your finger to move your mouse around.” —TIME
“10 Apps That Make Magic on Your iPad… Never again miss a new Twitter post, Facebook post or stock market move.” —New York Times
— FEATURES —
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, painting tool, or music control surface! Simple gestures allow you to operate the right mouse button and scroll wheel.
You can connect to Air Display from both Mac and Windows. And because it's a universal app, it works on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
When you rotate the screen, or disconnect and reconnect, your windows are automatically repositioned appropriately, so you don't have to drag them back to the iOS device.
Air Display provides a keyboard and mouse input on the iOS device.
Air Display supports video-out to your TV or Monitor, when used with an appropriate adapter cable.
Some great uses for Air Display:
• Fill your Air Display screen with your utility apps, like iChat, Mail, iCal, and Calculator.
• 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.
• Share: Use your iOS device's video adapter to share your screen on TVs, monitors and projectors in your boardroom or classroom.
• Amaze your friends by playing Flash animations on an iOS device!
On first launch, Air Display presents easy instructions for downloading and installing the companion support software for your desktop computer.
— COMPATIBILITY —
MAC OS X
To connect to a Mac, Air Display requires 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later, on an Intel CPU. Both 32-Bit & 64-Bit systems are supported. (Older 10.5.8 drivers are available for download and still work, but without the latest features.)
(NOTE: The drivers work great on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion) except for Mac models with dual NVIDIA GeForce 9400M & 9600M video chipsets. Please see avatron.com/lion for more information.)
WINDOWS
To connect to a Windows PC,
Air Display requires Windows XP (32-bit only), or Vista or 7 (32-bit or 64-bit). Windows 7 Starter edition is not supported. Aero and DirectX will be disabled while connected to Air Display, and re-enabled upon disconnection.
NETWORK
In order for Air Display to work, your computer and iOS device must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
What's New in Version 1.5.1
Great news, Lion users: Please update to Mac OS X 10.7.2 to enable our video driver on these Mac models:
- iMac
- Mac mini
- MacBook
- MacBook Air
- Most MacBook Pro models
NOTE: The following Mac models are still incompatible with Lion:
- MacBook Pro (15" late 2008 and mid 2009, 17" early and mid 2009)
- Fixed a screen corruption bug.
If you like Air Display, please consider leaving a User Review. To check out our other apps, just search for Avatron in the App Store.
Customer Reviews
Multiple monitors in a coffee shop for $10
This is a great app at a great price. It works great and makes me more productive.
There was a spate of low reviews for this app. But if you read them, you'll notice that most apparently never read the app description. The way the app store works is that you have to click the More button to read the entire description. Then you'll see that, yes, you have to download some free software on your computer. And no, that software doesn't work on some MacBook Pro machines. But they make that all pretty clear if you bother to read it.
Superb application.
I was blown away at how feature-filled and polished "Air Sharing" was, and I'm just as impressed with "Air Display."
5 stars
it is working again!
- $9.99
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Dec 06, 2011
- Version: 1.5.1
- Size: 10.7 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
- Seller: Avatron Software, Inc.
- © 2010-2012 Avatron Software, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
