Wireless Presentation from iPad2

Last post I shared how fun is using Cloud computing on my daily work and this time I will share the wireless presentation from iPad2.

My job is web design.I do have to present my progress work to my client.When I did presentation usually I connected my Macbook Pro to LCD projector or big flat panel display.

Since I had iPad2, I just wonder how to setup wireless presentation from it.I want my presentation on iPad2 appears on LCD projector or big flat panel display.I know it can be done,because I saw Steve Jobs do wireless mirroring from iPad on his presentation.

I check on Google and I found a video in YouTube that wireless mirorring is possible with iOS 5 and additional hardware which is Apple TV.

The Apple TV has only HDMI output not VGA output.Regular LCD projector usually equipped with VGA input.So iOS5 and Apple TV are great solution for home or my own office, but it hardly to setup when I’m at my client’s office.

So I search for another solution to have wireless presentation from iPad2.Then I found a blog that give tutorial about it.

This time I don’t need iOS 5 and Apple TV. All I need is my Macbook Pro connect to LCD projector and send mirroring display from my iPad2. Off course I need same WIFI network on both iPad2 and Macbook Pro.

Definitely it needs jailbroken iPad to create wireless mirroring without Apple TV.Fortunately my iPad2 iOS was 4.33 version.Same version that www.jailbreakme.com alow to do untheter jailbreak.I was amazed how can them jailbreak my iPad 2 with only one slide button.Thanks to Commex and team.

As the blog tutorial, I installed Veency from Cydia on my iPad2 and it’s free.The blog suggested to install open source application named the Chicken of the VNC on my Macbook Pro.

After that I check IP address on my iPad2, type it on the Chicken of the VNC, press connect and press Accept on iPad2… and voila … I have wireless mirroring from my iPad2 to Macbook Pro.I also success to projected the iPad2 screen to LCD monitor trough my Macbook Pro.

I knew it doesn’t run smoothly compare to the wireless mirroring using Apple TV. It lag when I play my keynote presentation. Keynote animation become lagging. But since my presentation mostly for viewing website from Safari browser then it’s enough for me.

Now I can make ‘WOW’ presentation, standing at center of my audience.Pretend as I am Steve Jobs presenting keynote from my iPad2 to LCD projector through my Macbok Pro wirelessly.

On my experience it’s better if I don’t depend on my client WIFI network because so many user on their office.So I always bring my portable WIFI router to create my own hotspot.

I found another application that better than the Chicken of the VNC. You can purchase JollysFastVNC Home in the App store on your Mac.It easier to make full screen and exit the full screen view of my iPad2 using JollysFastVNC Home compare to the Chicken of the VNC.

Sometimes wireless mirroring doesn’t appears exact the same screen. There is many tiny black spot on the mirroring image on the screen.Usually I re-install Veency on my Ipad2 and everything will be ok again.

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