Apple announced iPad 2 in March, one of the most interesting features of the iPad 2 is the possibility to activate video mirroring: thanks to Apple’s Digital AV Adapter or VGA Adapter, any app on your iPad 2 can be mirrored on the television’s bigger screen with just an additional cable and no setup required. It works out of the box — meaning all your apps, presentations and websites can be sent off to a monitor that supports HDMI or VGA display. Unfortunately, the feature is “officially” iPad 2-only — but thanks to a jailbreak hack detailed in a post on MacStories it is now possible to enable mirroring on the original iPad with a few easy steps. As detailed by Nature’s Eye Studios, you’ll need a jailbroken iPad 1 running iOS 4.3 to modify some system files and activate video mirroring. This can be easily achieved with the latest redsn0w that brought untethered 4.3.1 jailbreak. Once your iPad 1 is jailbroken, follow these steps: Step 1: Navigate to system/library/coreservices/springboard.app; Step 2: Download the K48AP.plist file on your computer; Step 3: Add the string “display-mirroring boolean YES” and make sure the file looks like the image below: Step 4: Upload the modified file back to the iPad (you can use an app like Cyberduck for this, and make sure OpenSSH is installed on the iPad), restart the device; Step 5: Start video mirroring using either the VGA or Digital AV Adapter. As per the developer, this has been tested with both adapters from Apple and it works, although it may be less responsive than the iPad 2 (due to lack of RAM and slower processor). Anyway, check out the full tutorial here, a demo video below: Let us know if the comments section below if you try this hack, and if this works for you. And, as usual, stay tuned by following us on Facebook, Twitter and/or by subscribing to our RSS Feed. Authors:

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