Avatron Software > Air Display

Introducing Air Display

Ever wish you had an extra display for your computer? There’s an app for that! With Air Display, you can use your iPad as a wireless display for your Mac OS X or Windows computer.

Developed by Avatron Software, home of the popular Air Sharing apps, Air Display lets you position your iPad next to your computer, drag windows onto it, and interact with those windows as you would on any other computer display.

Air Display’s performance is extremely responsive, employing a clever 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 1024×768 display nearly doubles the screen area of a netbook or laptop.

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 Mac calculator app, painting tool, or music control surface!

Some great uses for Air Display:

• Fill your iPad screen with your utility apps, like iChat, Mail, iCal, and Calculator.
• Graphic designers: Make Photoshop and Illustrator usable on your laptop by putting your tool palettes on the iPad screen.
• Musicians: Use your iPad as the ultimate control surface for Logic or Pro Tools.
• Programmers: Use the extra display area for such auxiliary development tools as Console, Terminal, and the Debugger.
• Business professionals: Move all of your iWork and Office palettes and inspector windows onto the iPad, 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 desktop software.

REQUIREMENTS

The Air Display support software is compatible with both Mac OS X (Intel only, 10.5.8 or greater) and Windows XP (32-bit only), and Windows Vista and 7 (32-bit or 64-bit).