Imagine this: you put your iPad into its dock next to your desktop (or laptop), and it transforms into a heads-up display of all the important stats from your machine. Maybe add some news and weather, and your “Today” list from your favorite to-do app. I’m sure there are a good number of people who could care less about this kind of thing, but ever since I saw Steve’s post on Air Display, I started pondering the possibilities. This is my proof-of-concept. See the gallery for less-blurry images of the results.
I set up ScreenRecycler on my MacBook Pro and used iTeleport to turn my iPad into a third monitor. That part was easy enough, and I found a few screen resolutions that work pretty well. Next, I opened up GeekTool 3 and duplicated a few of my Geeklets (little widgets that run shell commands and scripts to print data onto your desktop). These were dragged to the iPad to create a workable display configuration, including:
* Time and date
* Calendar for the month with current day highlighted
* Current weather (with icon)
* Heaviest processes by memory and CPU usage
* 5-minute average system load
* Some uptime and memory stats.
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