Airplay on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3/ iPad 4 & iPad mini
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iOS 5.0 and higher allows you to stream audio or video signals from Aplle tablet of any generation that is from iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 / iPad 4 and iPad mini to remote device with relevant feature called AirPlay. This streaming may be either wireless or via an Apple HDMI or VGA connected cable. Owners of the original iPad may take advantage of AirPlay only by installing application/s specifically capable of this feature. The signature of such capability is the Airplay button found directly in the app interface.

Mind you, if you have the original iPad and developers have not written the specific app to support Airplay then you're out of business and cannot stream say music from your tablet directly to AirPlay-enabled speakers, but you are lucky if they have.
The switching ON Airplay on your iPad is a piece a cake, as there is no need to do this. By default if AirPlay-enabled devices are within your environment iPad will pick them up automatically. So all you need to stream say your video to Apple TV is to find AirPlay button in the interface of your video app, tap it and tap Apple TV in the list.

iPad 2 and the newest iPad 3 / iPad 4 & iPad mini perform AirPlay routine even more efficiently, as these Apple tablets allow to mirror output of any app. All of them have a default AirPlay switch along with volume controls on the multitasking dock.

Accessing AirPlay from any app is possible as long as your AirPlay - compatible devices are properly configured. To stream music / video from ether iPad 2 / ipad 3 or iPad 4 / iPad mini:

  1. Bring up the multitasking dock by using four-fingers gesture
  2. Swipe from left to very right to bring up the AirPlay Button.
  3. Tap AirPlay Button ( the list of available AirPlay-enabled devices on your network will appear).
  4. Trigger Mirroring to ON.
  5. Tap the device you want to use. Apple tablet will be set up to stream from any music / video app you decide to use.

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