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hey guys Jason Cipriani here ain't seen a how-to contributor today I'm going to show you how to use a really neat feature that's coming in iOS 5 what it does is it allows you to mirror your iPad 2 through your Apple TV using airplay on to your big-screen TV it's really neat you're able to do basically anything you could do on your iPad shows up on your TV it's gonna come in real handy for educators as well as those who want to play games on their on their big-screen TV and take it off their iPad let's see how it works all right we're gonna mirror our iPad to via airplay and apple TV with iOS 5 both the Apple TV as well as your iPad 2 need to be run in a developer preview of iOS 5 in order for this to work to start we'll go ahead and double click the home button will see our app switcher menu pop up and we're going to scroll over and you'll see the airplay icon when you tap on that you're gonna have two options iPad or Apple TV tap on Apple TV and then turn on mirroring once that happens your screen will switch on the TV and whatever you do on your iPad will also show up in near-real-time there's a little bit of lag on your TV through Apple TV so if you open up the browser a little web page browse the Internet right on your TV you're the new reader Edition in iOS 5 and go back to turn it off double click your home button go back to the airplay icon and just tap back on iPad that was just a very brief demonstration and married your iPad 2 with iOS 5 again both the iPad as well as Apple TV have to be running iOS 5 which should be available later this fall make sure to check out more of our great tech tips at how to see Netcom you