We are proud to announce the launch of our Client Managemt System for Community Drug Teams, IcarusCloud.

This is the result of four years collaboration with Inchicore Community Drugs Team.

IcarusCloud helps Community Organisations to deliver the best possible service to their clients, at the same time helping them secure funding.

You can learn more about IcarusCloud here: http://www.icaruscloud.eu/

We are delighed to announce the lauch of www.rennicksdata.com.  This is a new facility Dovetail built for Rennicks Signs (www.rennicks.com), Ireland's premier supplier of highway signage systems.

RennicksData is the hub of a network that retreives traffic data from roadside signs, making it available to Rennicks' customers including traffic planners, transport companies etc.

The system makes use of GPRS data channels and cloud-based computing infrastructure.

I love this story about the Mars Science Laboratory.

NASA found a problem with the onboard computers and had to reprogram them.  It sounds like they had to update the firmware.  

I get a little nervous updating the firmware on my phone because I don't really trust it.  It makes me wonder how the NASA engineers felt as they uploading their patch to a once-off 2.5 billion dollar experiment hurtling through space!

We recently came across an issue on a customer website where a photo appeared correctly on most browsers, but was rotated ninety degrees when viewed on the iPad. The photo even showed up correctly on the Windows version of Safari.

This was puzzling us; why would one browser decide to rotate a photo when all others displayed the same photo correctly?

On further investigation, we discovered that this was because of the EXIF metadata stored in the photo. The camera, when taking the photo, saved its rotate setting for the photo in the EXIF metadata, and the iPad browser was just applying this rotate.

So the simple solution is to remove the EXIF metadata from the photo. This can be done using an application such as IfranView, or an image compression website such as PunyPNG. We used PunyPNG, and the reduced image now displays perfectly on the iPad.