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Good news from the Adobe MAX conference – Adobe is now closer than ever to running Flash on the Apple iPhone. At Adobe MAX, the company’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe announced that the new Flash Professional CS5 software will enable developers the ability to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new functionality opens iPhone development to millions of designers and developers who currently use Adobe’s popular Flash authoring tools. Adobe already has some examples of Flash applications available on the Adobe Labs site.

Flash is an integral part of many webqem projects, so we are very excited to hear this news. However, we are still holding out to witness a Connect Meeting on our iPhones – we hear that Adobe is not far off, so let us wait in anticipation!

Adobe has released version 8 of its Photoshop Elements image-editing software and Premiere Elements video-editing software. The bundle offers the most complete photo and video solution by integrating two powerful, yet easy-to-use, products.

With this release, Adobe gives users a completely enhanced ‘Organizer’, which serves as a feature-rich media hub for user’s photos and videos. From the Organizer, user can easily launch directly into Photoshop Elements 8 to create extraordinary photos or Premiere Elements 8 to effortlessly make movies with new, automated features.

Photoshop Elements comes in both Windows and Mac versions, however Premiere Elements is windows only. These new pieces of software are a step down from their Photoshop & Premiere Pro CS4 versions, but still offer lots for your money. For more information please visit the software page of our website.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first many maxoom online seminars. We were overwhelmed by the number of people that attended and by the amount of interest generated.

For those of you that were unable to attend, you missed out on a quality presentation by our operations director, Larry Adler. Larry used a Connect Pro Meeting room to show off the capabilities of the maxoom software, along with useful demonstration videos.

Thankfully we were able to record the meeting, so if you did miss it, we have a recording available now. Enjoy.

Adobe provides a great online resource that is Adobe TV. This website has come back better than ever with its recent relaunch. Launched at the end of  August, the redesigned Adobe TV is now faster and features customization, improved navigation, sharing options, and a more accurate search.

You can watch a full range of programs, from entertainment to instruction to tips & tricks, with videos covering almost every piece of Adobe software – from the Creative Suites, to ColdFusion and Flex, to Photoshop & InDesign. So whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, Adobe TV has a video that will cater for your needs. You can check out Adobe TV online, you will be pleasantly surprised at the number of great videos available.

webqem has launched the new LUMIX Life website, the latest competition from Panasonic Australia.

The purpose of the site is to bring together the worldwide LUMIX community, in a celebration of photography, culminating in 50 of the best online exhibitions being selected to appear at Global Gallery in Paddington, Sydney, Australia.

The new site was custom built using Flash, ColdFusion and SlideShowPro with kudos to the design team for coming up with a stunning new logo and colour scheme.

Check out the best in amateur and celebrity photography from LUMIX at www.lumixlife.com.au and, if your’e passionate, consider joining the Panasonic Australia LUMIX Flickr group.

webqem has launched the new aimbooks online bookstore, providing a comprehensive online shopping experience for business and management books.

The new site is a customised X-Cart shopping cart written in PHP, replacing an old ASP site. The online payment processing is provided by PayCorp, including MasterCard and Visacard.

The site currently has over 500 books available online, organised by multiple levels of categories, including Best Sellers, New Releases and Essential Reading.

The home page features the Book of the Month, and other promotions, all easily maintained through the menu-driven backend administration system.

Australian Institute of Management (AIM) NSW & ACT members receive a 10% discount off the listed price.

Digital Training specialise in digital media training, with course topics including web marketing, digital advertising, online sales, web 2.0, social networking, mobile phone marketing and search engine marketing.

The new Digital Training website promotes the 3 core areas of the business:

• Digital Cadet – Entry level digital training
• Digital Academy – Short courses covering everything digital media
• Digital Feast – Bespoke training for leading advertising agencies, online publishers and major corporations

All courses are run by industry experts, with many years of hands-on experience working with some of Australia’s leading digital, media and advertising agencies, and publishing houses.

Little Bay Apartments are located at Little Bay, Prince Henry, 20 mins south of Sydney. They provide luxury retirement living at an award-winning masterplanned seaside community. The client, St Luke’s, aim was to combine succint, relevant content (both copy and imagery) with a great user experience. The end result is a clean, easy to use site that gives users a great insight into retirement living at Little Bay.

Enphase Energy is an exciting new player in the solar energy market in the U.S. As the popularity of their unique solar power system has become increasingly recognized and desired, the need for a fresh new look for their website emerged. This up-and-coming company has become a major player in the energy industry so webqem undertook redesigning their site as one that reflects the professionalism and success of the Enphase brand and philosophy.

“webqem did a phenomenal job creating our website and producing our Flash animations, despite the short time-frame, our high expectations, and an eighteen hour time difference. I highly recommend them.”

Leesa Lee, Director of Marketing, Enphase Energy, USA

A new section of the Adventure Kokoda website went live today, Events. Events allows users to purchase tickets to an event, create a table at an event or join a table that has already been created. The main upcoming event is The 2008 Kokoda Reunion Dinner, to be held on November 7, at Parliament House in Sydney.