How To Use Ipad As Wifi Mouse For Mac

As you navigate Web pages, forms, and dialog boxes on your Mac, you can use the Tab key to quickly switch between each field, instead of clicking your mouse in one after the other. Jump to Connect - Install Remote:Mouse/Keyboard App on your iPhone or iPad. Make sure that your iOS device and computer join the same network.

I’m a big-screen fan. It’s the reason my primary Mac is still a 17-inch MacBook Pro, and why I have that hooked up to a 27-inch when I’m in my home office. When travelling, though, I have fewer pixels to play with.

Sure, I could get a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, but I favor physical screen space over smaller screen elements. There are existing apps out there, like, that let you use an as a second monitor for a, but they work via WiFi, which poses two problems. First, they often don’t work on WiFi hotspots, which you’re likely to be using when away from home. Second, even when they do work, there is an annoying amount of lag. Which is where comes in.

Instead of using WiFi, it feeds the video signal from your Mac to iPad using a standard Lightning or 30-pin cable. Built by ex-Apple engineers, I figured it ought to be work well, so put it to the test. Setup Setup is very straightforward. Install the Duet iOS app on your iPad, then install the companion menu bar app on your Mac. Convert pdf to tiff using adobe acrobat.

You need to restart your Mac after installing the companion app, and then you’re done. You can also run it on an iPhone. On an iPhone 6, it would be pointless, and I’m not convinced it would be that much more useful on an iPhone 6 Plus, but the option is there if you want it. Connecting your iPad To use your iPad as a monitor, simply connect it to your Mac using a standard Lightning or 30-pin cable (I use an one, mostly because it’s black ) and launch the Duet app on your iPad. Within 2-3 seconds, the Mac will automatically detect the iPad and start using it as a second monitor.

I found the first time I connected it, it set the iPad screen to be the main one, with the dock and menu bar over on the iPad. This looked rather funky, giving a sense of what an iPad running OS X would look like, but isn’t the most useful setup. Reversing that works the same as any other external monitor: just click the Arrangement tab and drag the menu bar back to the Mac display. In subsequent launches, Duet remembered this setting, so it was a simple, one-off task. You can also use it as a third monitor alongside a conventional one if desired. In use I have two Macs: a late-2011 MacBook Pro 17, and a 2013 MacBook Air 11. Duet says that the app works only with 2013 Macs and later (running OS X 10.9 or later), and this is pretty much correct–but not the whole story.

With my MacBook Air, performance is silky smooth. It’s indistinguishable from a conventional external monitor, even when playing video. I was incredibly impressed, and think you will be too. Judge for yourself: Updated: My usage on my MacBook Pro 17 was carried out with pre-release software, in which cursor-lag was horrible. But with the latest version installed, responsiveness is–while still compromised–is still perfectly usable. Csgo map makers tool for mac.

Touchscreen OS X One really nice, uh, touch with Duet is that you can choose to control the apps on the iPad monitor using your Mac touchpad/mouse, or the touchscreen display on the iPad–switching back-and-forth between the two methods as you like. It’s really quite fun to explore what OS X would be like on a touchscreen device. Obviously it’s not designed as a touchscreen OS, so a lot of the user interface elements are rather small for a finger, but for things like weblinks, it makes for a convenient additional means of control. Issues Generally when using an external monitor, it will be larger than your Mac display. In this case, it’s smaller, which means any large windows you drag across to the iPad will need resizing.

It’s easier to make them small before you drag them and then resize them as desired once positioned on the iPad. I found that if I let my Mac go to sleep, it wouldn’t always automatically reconnect to the iPad.

Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn’t. When it didn’t, not even relaunching Duet on my iPad worked: I had to quit both iOS and Mac apps, disconnect the Lightning cable–then relaunch both apps and reconnect the cable. Conclusion: set your Mac not to sleep when using the app. Things were fine at the iPad end: I could switch off the iPad when I didn’t need the second monitor, and it would reconnect to the Mac within a few seconds of switching it back on again.