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External Display is not behaving as expected

There are various reasons for this, it nothing else the external screen is unlikely to have either the same display resolution or screen ratio, and so a mirrored display may well look odd as well as being … In order to change this, and if you want it to become your main display so that the dock and menu bar and other desktop icons appear on it and don't want to just mirror the display (useful for example …
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What is the appropriate size for album art to display correctly the iPad's retina display?

The new iPad has a resolution of 2048-by-1536. For good results, I would suggest a multiple of the smaller dimension, assuming you are using square album art, which you should but isn't always the ca …
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External monitor suddenly stopped working at 2440x1440 on OS Lion 10.7.3

It sounds like you could have inadvertently set (or had set) HiDPI mode. I cann't remember (or find with the time I have) how to set this, but I'll throw this answer up and make it Wiki so anyone can …
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Can I lower the minimum display brightness? How?

It runs in the background providing always-available fine-grained control over the brightness of your display via a slick Mac-like interface Though all modern Apple laptops have brightness controls … Perhaps you need to dim the screen on a desktop machine, and the display you are using offers no such facility? If this is the case for you, then try Shades. …
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Using 2 displays with full screen applications

It's tricky to accomplish due to the new screens workflow, an extended desktop onto a 2nd monitor is still just one 'screen', and you want it to display 2 different screens simultaeniously - a not unreasonable …
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What solutions are available for using iPad as an extended desktop?

There are many you can try, but my (unaffiliated merely personal preference) recommendation is Air Display. …
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How does the new iPad's Retina Display affect its battery life?

See this interesting article for more info excerpt follows: Because of the increased battery draw of the MDM9600 and Retina display, Apple had to significantly increase the iPad's battery capacity. …
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Retina enabled Apps and file sizes

With the new iPad being released with the Retina display, many apps are being updated with new graphics and images to enable native resolution images to be displayed. …
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Monitor Words Per Minute on the background?

This is a tricky one to solve and get meaningful data. Firstly, what defines a "word"? Usually in a text editing program this would be defined as a series of alphanumeric characters separated by a s …
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How to use the new iPad (3rd gen) as a second screen?

Orient it anyway you want Air Display works in both landscape and portrait configurations. Just rotate your screen, and it automatically reconfigures. … No wires needed With Air Display you never need to mess with monitor cables. …
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Window management with multiple displays and desktops

I don't have an external monitor to test this on, but you could look at an app called Swapp that purports to be able to swap the contents of an external screen onto your main display. … There is also Display maid which looks similar. Both have free trials. …
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Screen Sensitivity of the retina display iPad (3rd generation). Is it better than before?

Only if you file your fingers down to double precision ;) But seriously, no, the actual capacative touch screen layer is unchanged, because the thing that is needs to interact with (your finger) rema …
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MacBook Retina Display for coding

An app is just an app is just an app, whether it's a virtual machine in parallels or a game, and the Keynote specifically mentioned pixel doubling for non-retina apps (which makes sense, they have to …
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How to quickly reduce video file size of iPad and iPhone videos

I would use Handbrake which is a free encode/recode program. You can batch files up, and choose various presets or your own choice of everything from resolution/bit rate/frames per second etc to decr …
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Mid 2012 Macbook Air Black Screen

It sounds like your backlight has broken. The LCD screen needs to be lit from behind before the screen contents are more than vaguely visible. If you boot the machine again, and shine a bright torch …
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