iPad Detection and Redirection

Published July 28, 2010 by Richard Uren

We’ve had a few emails over the last week or from folks wanting to detect iPads and/or redirect iPads to iPad specific sites. Its super easy and takes a few minutes to set up. Here’s the scoop :

  1. Login, browse over to Sites and click Add Site Profile.
  2. Enter the Site Name and the Website Address (see below)
  3. Check ‘Smart Redirection’ (This allows people to jump backwards and forwards between your iPad and normal websites without being redirected).
  4. Click Add New Rule to add a new redirection rule for iPad devices
  5. Give the Rule a name like ‘Redirect iPads’
  6. Add a condition – In this case its a match for the Model
  7. Enter the URL that iPads should be redirected to

Job Done.

Happy iPad Redirecting.

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Activation Email Delivery Problems with Gmail

Published July 6, 2010 by Richard Uren

Just a quick heads up that we’re experiencing issues with gmail bouncing activation emails.  We’re happy to manually activate your account while the issue gets sorted.

Drop an email to hello@handsetdetection.com and we’ll set things right.

Cheers
Richard

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Mobile Detection Just Got 1000x Easier

Published July 6, 2010 by Richard Uren

Im really excited today to be announcing our new Sites feature.  I’m excited because Sites really delivers on our core promise of making mobile easy.  API Kits are great, and they’re powerful, but it can be a bit confusing without some technical skills at hand.  So now we have Sites. It literally takes 5 minutes to setup and its a piece of cake. Here’s the benefits :-

1) Yes, Finally you can create a bunch of website profiles all under the same account! There’s no limit to the number of sites you can have. Setup 1 or 100 its fine with us, really.  There’s no need to mess around with multiple accounts anymore, unless you really want to.

2) Sites have optional Redirection Rules. Mostly you’ll use redirection rules to automatically send mobile visitors off to your mobile website. We’ve even got a special check in there so mobile visitors dont get redirected if they go back to your normal website site – because thats just good form (We call that Smart Redirection – make sure to tick that box when setting things up). How do you enter redirection rules ?

  1. Login
  2. Click Dashboard
  3. Click Sites
  4. Click Add Site Profile
  5. Enter the Site Name
  6. Enter the Site URL
  7. Click Add New Rule
  8. Enter your Conditions
  9. Click Save
  10. Copy and paste your site’s unique script tag into the head of your main homepage
  11. Kick back because its Job Done !

There’s even a video. Its 5 minutes or so.

For the more adventurous we also expose the detection results in Javascript so you can script up your own mobile magic if you like.

In other news : API Kits are being updated at the moment to assign detection requests to site profiles, plus we’re laying the foundations for console detection, (Wii, PS3, Xbox), as well as iPad detection and other tablets.  Sites has proved exceptionally stable so we’ll be removing the beta tag in the next release or so. There will also be some shuffling of links about, Sites will replace Dashboard in the top right hand corner, Detection History Download will move into the Sites Actions and, eventually, API Kit configuration will move into Site Information.

Here’s a few screen shots of sites in action :-

Add SiteRedirection Rules

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Ruby on Rails API Kit goes gold

Published July 4, 2010 by Richard Uren

Oh My ! I totally forgot to mention that James Rowe released a Ruby on Rails API Kit for Handset Detection back in mid June. If you’re into Ruby goodness then this is the API Kit for you. All packaged up under the MIT license. Yeah ! Thanks James.

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