A company called Avatron Software is out with a cool iPad app, Air Display, that effectively turns Apple’s tablet into an extra PC monitor. You’ve heard that correctly, when you need more space on your screen, simply place your iPad near your monitor and voila, you get get additional 9.7 inches of the screen estate.

At the moment, Air Display works with Macs only, with Windows version of a desktop/laptop app set to be released shortly. In that sense, Avatron suggests using the application alongside the MacBook Air (or MacBook which also has a 13.3-inch screen).

Air Display works over WiFi and leverages the iPad’s auto-rotation feature, allowing the device to be rotated in portrait or landscape orientation as needed. The iPad can be positioned to the left or right of the primary screen. The app rocks a screen refresh rate of 150 frames per second for no perceivable lag time in mouse performance. Compressed image quality and refresh speed are continually balanced to optimize viewing quality or speed of movement as needed.

Finally, Avatron suggests that for best results, a stand may be used to position the iPad in the ideal viewing position.

Air Display ($9.99) available at iTunes.

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Apple announced that it sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.

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The iPad had a tough debut, once it started getting banned in Israel and some universities in the US. The reason was that either it didn’t fit the country’s wireless standards, or it would take down the universities’ wireless networks.

Over the past 2 weeks, iPad units had to be left at customs, when entering Israel, because the tablets don’t use wireless standards matching the one in the country. We have to mention that Israel uses European standards, so iPad versions with EU specs will fit the bill.

You’ll be happy to know that the ban is now gone, after some Israeli computer users expressed their opposition versus the restriction.

[via Tablet News]

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What do you get a 100 year old woman for her birthday? Any sane person would say “an XBox 360″, yet these people apparently got Granny (or great great granny?) a brand new iPad. And Guess what? She LOVES it. Almost as much as her relatives enjoy drinking and watching her use it. (And yes, we’ve already reached out to see if she’ll be our next Mac Chick of the Month).

[Via: Macenstein]

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Masters of Apple accessories, Griffin’s A-Frame iPad stand holds your new precious in both upright and landscape formats while charging, and doesn’t let the dock block the speakers, thanks to cleverly-placed grooves.

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