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Experts predict that gasoline prices will continue to rise. To help motorists determine the best time to fill their gas tank, CAA-Quebec is making InfoEssence available. This tool assists the motorist in finding the lowest gasoline prices across the province of Quebec. This ‘lowest price’ is calculated from various official input sources obtained by CAA-Quebec.

Be sure to try the iPhone InfoEssence application right away. Our firm has been among those participating in its creation, under the direction of LXB Communications Marketing. This new tool, offered by CAA-Quebec, has the same functions as the original web page, with the user-friendly interface of the Apple iPhone.

With several hundred downloads in its first day, the InfoEssence application, in under 24 hours, became a top-ten seller in its category (Lifestyle). We congratulate all those who participated in the creation of this application. You now have access to InfoEssence at any time, no matter where you are, from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Success doesn’t always have to be complicated!

We recently published a new tutorial for our Corporate Wiki. The article describes steps required to program a simple and efficient PHP MySQL file storage engine. The suite is composed of only two scripts, but presents the complete technique for using $_FILE variables and Blob SQL fields. At the same time, we upgraded and moved our Wiki, pimping it out with a new shiny look for 2010. In hope our new Five Alive theme won’t break trademark laws.

Take some give some,
Heptacube

The Hackfest 2010, an event on cybersecurity, will be held in Quebec city on 5-6 November and some employees will participate Saturday night at the Saturday’s night contest. Several conferences and competitions are scheduled during the two days and we strongly invite you.

More details on the website of Hackfest 2010 (site in french)

After several years building web tools and applications, it is time to merge our web products into one domain. This decision is strictly practical. Having a universal account for Heptacube products will help users explore the vast possibilities offered by our web applications. Merging our products, services and publications is the next logical step toward reaching this goal since internet cookies are domain dependent.

That being said, the first step is almost complete. The past few days have been spent fixing broken links, integrating corporate design and even adding a few new features.

Hoping your experience will be delightful,
The Heptacube Development Team

Following an important increase in traffic, we have decided to relocate our most important hosting servers.

This transfer requires us to change IP addresses, which means when we will move the servers Web sites that are hosted on them will become unavailable. Therefore, be advised that your Web site may become inaccessible for a period of a few minutes to an hour, on Monday October 4th in the morning.

Following this operation, our hosting servers will be able to better sustain high demands in traffic and offer a service of higher quality.

Thank you for your understanding.

In order to provide better support for the users of our business management software Polymeo, we have produced a document that describes what is in Polymeo and how to use its features.

This software documentation is mainly targeted at existing Polymeo users who need detailed information on all the features provided by the application. Everyone is also invited to download the user manual to preview Polymeo’s many possibilities.

We will keep this manual frequently updated in order to reflect the software’s evolution as well as provide more details on its many features.

To find out more about Polymeo and to download the Polymeo Software Documentation, please visit this page.

It has been a pleasant summer here at Heptacube, both in terms of weather and affairs. While the sun was shining through the windows, telephones were ringing and email clients were busy planning meetings and discussions on proposals and quotes. In the last three months, we have sealed deals with several new clients for which work has been done or is in progress.

The first of these clients is Studio 7 Communications, a firm specialized in corporate training. Having already completed a small contract with them, we are looking forward to more collaboration in the near future.

We have also signed a contract with a printing firm, for which a long-term project is ongoing. It calls for our expertise in PHP programming and SQL databases handling for developing a complex management platform.

MRCNR, a firm of strategy advisors, is another company with which we have recently begun doing business.

Finally, the newest addition to our list of clients is Boo Ya Films Inc., for whom we will do some CSS and JavaScript enhancements to their Web site.

With these clients adding more work to our list of ongoing projects, fall 2010 sure is looking to be bright in Heptacube’s offices!

Starting today, you are invited to visit the new Cubeklix Web site, our pay-per-click advertising platform.

The new and improved Cubeklix is a user-friendly, pleasant Web site to visit. Not only are the new colors and logo part of a refreshing design, it is now also easier to navigate on Cubeklix.

Additional documentation has also been added to the Klix3 blog. It provides details and advice, in English and in French, for an efficient use of Cubeklix and the pay-per-view model.

Register now to start your own advertising campaign!

In order to enhance user experience on our Web sites, we are constantly working on new functionalities. Heptacube presents today two new pages as well as an automatic redirection function on our main site.

Starting today, visitors of “heptacube.com” will be automatically taken to the Canadian or American version. This measure is part of our objective to better distribute resources and should be used in the future for all of our corporate Web productions.

We have also conceived a map of our corporate Web site.

Finally, the third element concerns our secure hosting services, SSL Cube. Details of our hosting plans are now being presented clearly on a unique page from which you can subscribe to one of our hosting plans, in only a couple of clicks, while paying with PayPal. This online form greatly simplifies and speeds up registration to a SSL hosting plan on our servers.

Respond to a survey about Quebec City and get a chance to win $200. This publicity has been getting much attention in the past few weeks. Maybe you have even responded to this questionnaire yourself.

At the request of LXB Communications Marketing, we have contributed to the development of Metaforté, an application used to create the survey in question. Metaforté is a Web application conceptualized by LXB and serves as an interactive focus group.

In addition to being a priceless complement to standard focus groups, this software brings together technology and the power of pictures over the human brain. While it allows for individual interviews, Metaforté uses scientific studies on the analysis of metaphors to help develop efficient neuromarketing strategies.

A great innovation, this software is the combined result of Heptacube’s mastery of the Web and LXB Communications Marketing’s expertise in brand analysis.