After installing LogMeIn Ignition on the iPad, download the free LogMeIn application for every computer you wish to control remotely and start it up on that computer. So far I have just set up the HackPro in the office and here is how my account at LogMeIn looks, viewed in Safari on the HackPro:<\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nMoments after invoking LogMeIn on the HackPro desktop, I started up LogMeIn Ignition on the iPad, made contact with the HackPro, touched the mouse symbol on the iPad and …. loaded Lightroom 2 remotely from the iPad. This is what the iPad’s screen displayed:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nLightroom 2 on the iPad<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
You can just make out the LogMeIn app on the HackPro’s screen – it’s the small circle to the left of the CPU sign in the status bar at the top.<\/p>\n
Clicking\/touching on the iPad’s screen moved me from grid view to full screen view thus:<\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nTimings?<\/p>\n
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- Two seconds to start the app on the iPad\n
- Eight seconds to select the HackPro and login\n
- Ten seconds to load Lightroom icon on the iPad’s screen and see what Lightroom is showing on the HackPro. I can alternate between the two views – full screen and grid in Lightroom by simply shaking the iPad. This is the equivalent of the two disparate monitor views on the desktop. Add four seconds.\n<\/ul>\n
The possibilities here are so huge I’ll stop for now while I begin to digest what can be done remotely, but here’s how the view changes from one to the other monitor attached to the desktop, by simply shaking the iPad:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nShaken and stirred – the full screen view in Lightroom, viewed on the iPad<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Screen refresh on the iPad takes about a second, compared to instantaneous on the HackPro – you are sending a lot of data over wifi, after all. I see no reason why this would not work over 3G with the 3G iPad, though I expect screen refresh would be a good deal slower.<\/p>\n
What’s that you say? You want to run ancient Rosetta apps from your desktop on the iPad, like Photoshop CS2? No problemo!<\/i><\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nPhotoshop CS2 on the iPad<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
What was all that about the iPad being suited solely to reading and games?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prepare to have your mind blown. Yes. You read that right. I am using my iPad as a remote viewing and control device for Lightroom, which is running on my desktop HackPro under OS X Snow Leopard. The iPad app I am using is named LogMeIn Ignition and costs $29.99 for the iPad. You think … Continue reading Running Lightroom on the iPad<\/span>