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101 Web Technology has recently launched a new business line iApp Marketing. iApp Marketing leverages the power of collaboration to develop your ideas for iPod, iPhone and iPad applications.

Offering a Collaborative iOS Application Development environment we provide a confidential submission process for your iOS (iPod, iPhone and iPad) application ideas. iApp Marketing, will work with you to develop your application ideas for the iPod, iPad or iPhone. If approved iApp Marketing is able to fund the fund the development of your iOS application and work in a capped profit share arrangement. (ie: No Cash Down to you).

Alternatively you are welcome to work with any of our specialist user interface designers, developers and online marketers to help get your iOS application into the world.

If you would like to know more check out www.iappmarketing.com.au

We recently discovered that a clients website was not viewing correctly on the iPad. We thought that was strange so fired up our iPhone to test the site using mobile Safari, the same as on the iPad. The site worked, which was even more strange, doesnt the iPhone 4 and iPad share the same O/S? We thought it strange so without having an iPad in the business (now looking to get one as we have a justified business reason. A small one but lets grab it so we can have more toys.)

After looking around for an iPad emulator and only finding one that is an iFrame surrounded by a picture of the iPad as a border, mostly good for resolution testing. We then started to play around with the User Agent in Safari setting the user agent to iPad still didn’t show the error that was reported on the iPad. This was strange and we kept hunting only to find the answer was under our nose all the time. The Apple SDK comes with an iPad simulator, likewise an iPhone simulator. After installing xCode and the iPad SDK we now have a iPad simulator in the business to test websites on. As we are running a local dev environment using Apache under Snow Leopard we can access sites on our local server. This is great test iPad compliance before the site is in production, got to be happy with that.

To get the iPad simulator running, after installing the SDK simply create a new iPad application and before you even turn your hand to code select Build and Run. This will load the iPad simulator, press the Home button and then you can load Safari. From Safari type in your website address and take a look at the site using a soft version of the iPad.

Moral of the story is if you are wanting to test your site fully for compliance with the iPad you need to either have one in the office or get the Apple SDK.