See Macs Only! on iPhoney, a Free iPhone Simulator from Marketcircle
See Macs Only! on iPhoney, a Free iPhone Simulator from Marketcircle
Marketcircle, maker of Daylite Productivity Suite and Billings business software for the Mac, released iPhoney. iPhoney is a new iPhone simulator for Web designers.
Marketcircle is providing the application free as a service to the Mac developer community to test iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications and compatible Web sites.
iPhoney will open any Web site that works with Safari (Safari 3 works best), simulate the iPhone user agent to test browser redirection scripts, and rotate Web sites in either portrait or landscape orientation. iPhoney is also pixel accurate to the iPhone, which has 160 pixels. But since most Mac displays offer between 72 and 96 pixels per inch, iPhoney looks about twice the size of an actual iPhone.
iPhoney requires Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later. Here's some of what you can do with iPhoney:
Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications and compatible web sites.
- Open any web site that works with Safari (use Safari 3 beta for the most accurate experience).
- Rotate to see web sites in either portrait or landscape orientation.
- Show or hide the location bar for a full-screen iPhone experience.
- Simulate the iPhone user agent, to test browser redirection scripts.
To learn more about iPhoney's origins, check out this blog or just download and play with it from this Marketcircle Web page--it's free!
Obviously, we have a lot of work to do to make an iPhone-size Web page for Macs Only! [Update: Actually, we don't. Marketcircle simply has not yet implemented the iPhone's web zooming function yet in iPhoney--it's coming soon. Thanks to reader Gordon Brock for pointing this out.] [Bill Fox]
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