While the capability to use your iPad as an external monitor has been around since the original iPad, the Retina display of the latest version offers a more compelling reason to do so, with higher resolution than your laptop and likely a wider color gamut to boot. In the image above, I'm using the screen of my MacBook Air to house Photoshop panels while the iPad is dedicated to a full screen image view. This is a small, lightweight combo that I can travel with easily and setup anyplace that has Wi-Fi access.
What makes this all possible is a clever little app called Air Display. After purchasing the app you download a separate piece of (free) software to install on your Mac or Windows host computer. With both the iPad and computer on the same network, simply enable Air Display and select your iPad from the pulldown menu. You can move applications, windows and documents to either screen. Air Display supports iPad touch capability by converting basic gestures into mouse clicks. You even have access to the iPad's virtual keyboard for text entry.
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3) Transferring files from iPad to the Mac is a huge, slow chore. You don't get direct Finder-level access to the contents of the iPad. You have to transfer in using an app that's compliant with Apple's PTP standard. The only fully free program included with Mac OS X that does this is Image Capture. It has limited metadata viewing, no filtering options, and I've had it freeze or transfer corrupt files every other time I used it. 2ff7e9595c
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