#displaypad

DisplayPad is a great app that turns your iPad in a second ( or third, or fourth or ... ) screen for your mac.

It have some great feature as adding a new mouse which is touch responsive on your screen.

Although when used on wifi you can have some really annoying issue as :

- random disconnection

- lags

- freeze

The disconnection is probably the worse as you'll have a 3 seconds bluescreen on every screen connected, which cut your work even if you was not working on the iPad screen. Also all the windows you had on that screen will come back to your main one...

A great solution i found is to use myWi ( a great thetering app available on Cydia - another good reason to jailbreak ) :

Disconect your mac from airport

Connect your mac and iPad with the usb-dock cable

Configure myWi to share your wifi connection on usb

Connect your iPad to wifi ( if not allready done )

If needed configure your mac to get it's internet from the new cabled network made available ( in most case you don't have to do anything )

Launch displayPad on the iPad

Connect your mac with displayPad

And TADAAAA you get a super stable, reliable and quite fast displayPad experience.

It's not as fluid as having a screen connected through hdmi, dvi, displayport or vga but it's realy usefull to keep your eye on something that does not change too fast.

Do you spend so much time on your computer that you need a second monitor, but still have not actually bought one? If so, DisplayPad by Clean Cut Code is a cheap and space-saving alterative.

I personally do not need a second monitor. I rarely sit in front of my home computer for more than a few minutes. I stare at a monitor for eight hours a day, the last thing I want to do when I get home is do the same thing. I do, however, spend hours and hours playing World of Warcraft, and at times have needed to look something up and will have to reduce my game screen in order to access the rest of my computer. So, I gave DisplayPad a try while I was gaming, and it was awesome! I was able to g-chat with friends, look up quest info on thotbott.com and pick playlists on iTunes from my iPad while never having to stop killing shit on WoW.

You have to download an additional program to your home computer and the link requires a wireless network. Some visual quality gets lost in the translation and it tends to run really slow, at least mine did while playing a game that hogs up a lot of data when it is running. But I’d have to imagine that anyone who really needs a second monitor probably already has one and this little gadget is just for the rest of us.

It is currently on sale for $4.99