CheckSites app submitted to the App Store

I’ve started working on a series of iPhone apps to help web developers when they are on the run. I’ll have to make another post about what else is coming, but the first one is done and is waiting for approval from Apple.

That first app is called CheckSites and performs a simple but important job for you. The app checks to make your sites are running properly. You tell it what pages to check and what text to look for in those pages; if it can get the page and it contains the text, you know your site is okay. If something goes wrong, it gives you details of what happened. This way you can know the difference between a typo on the site and your whole server being dead in the water. Which of course makes the difference between a mental not to fix things when you get home and abandoning your grocery cart full of food to sprint for your computer.

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