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hi I'm Matt Elliott CNET how to contributor and today I'd like to talk to you about display pad it's an iPad app that lets you extend your Mac desktop using your iPad as a second monitor let's take a look all right let's take a look at display pet in action so you can get a sense of how it works from the iPad tap on the display pad icon after you've installed it cost $2.99 and then from the menu bar of your Mac click the small display pet icon and you should see your iPad listed here click on that little flash of blue and we are up and running so I can take an application through a window here and slide it from the Mac over to the iPad just like that it goes from the right side of your Mac to the left side of your iPad and the iPad works either in landscape or portrait mode here I have an in landscape so it's really easy just drag things back and forth let me demonstrate here I got TweetDeck up and a browser window as you can see it's a little tight space on the iPad you can't have too many windows crammed in there unless you use a lot of widgets so here I click on a link or tap on a link from TweetDeck tap and it opens right in the browser next to it so you get full touchscreen functionality after tapping on the link I can then use two fingers to scroll through the page and then tap to close it's a little hard to get on the exact location you're aiming for with tapping a lot of times if it's a small small little target so I tend to you I found I was using the cursor more than the touchscreen so there's the tiniest amount of lag when you're navigating on the iPad screen nothing that's going to really get in your way although watching a video I've watched some Hulu videos on the iPad screen and the audio and video didn't quite match up so John Stewart's lips delivered joke and the audio arrives a split second later I did find however that sliding over some major league baseball here that this came in pretty well the the crack of the bat matched up with when the ball arrived so video results vary but it does provide a great little second screen to watch some day baseball during the work day for more tech tips please visit how to see Netcom thanks