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Technology Stocks : Totally Hip Software Inc. (THW) - Just the Facts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim who wrote (672)	1/12/2000 8:57:00 PM
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THW News Release Attention Business Editors: Totally Hip Software announces interactive LiveSlideShow(TM) Product Streaming media slide show presentation tool for businesses and consumers VANCOUVER, Jan. 12 /CNW/ - Totally Hip Software Inc. Canadian Venture Exchange: THW Totally Hip announces LiveSlideShow, a compelling new QuickTime(TM) based streaming media slide show presentation application for the Apple Macintosh(TM). LiveSlideShow will allow everyone from business professionals to personal broadcasters to create and share interactive slide shows and photographs over the Internet via e-mail or Web sites using Apple's QuickTime streaming media player and plug-in. ''LiveSlideShow is an important part of Totally Hip's product strategy and focus on interactive QuickTime solutions and broadband media creation tools. Essentially, it brings the interactive power and functionality of LiveStage Professional wired sprite capabilities to the masses. LiveSlideShow's simple drag and drop interface will allow individuals to easily create interactive slide shows and presentations. Our goal is to maintain our position as the leading QuickTime authoring tool developer by continuing to produce powerful easy-to-use award-winning software,'' says David B. Dicaire, Chief Operating Officer of Totally Hip. Totally Hip plans to include LiveSlideShow as part of the LiveStage Professional QuickTime Authoring package and also make it available as a separate product. The standalone product is targeted at professional business and personal users in the mass Internet enabled market and the growing digital media and imaging market. These markets will be targeted through channels such as digital camera, scanner and computer purchasers and users through direct sales or manufacturer OEM bundling. LiveSlideShow is designed to be so simple to master that most users won't even require reading a manual. Also further interactivity and functionality can be added to users QuickTime movie based slide shows by accessing the 200 plus features within LiveStage Professional. Totally Hip will soon begin limited testing of LiveSlideShow utilizing the talents and feedback from those testers that helped to make LiveStage Professional an award-winning product. Totally Hip plans to make available a pre-release beta version in the spring of 2000. Product pricing will be announced when it is officially released. ''The recent MacWorld once again demonstrated that LiveStage Professional is the QuickTime authoring tool of choice. LiveSlideShow will allow users to leverage the functionality of QuickTime and LiveStage Professional, making it the ideal alternative to using RealNetworks RealSlideShow(TM) Plus 2.0 to broadcast interactive slide shows to communicate and share ideas on the Internet. We expect LiveSlideShow to become very popular with Macintosh users now that Apple has unveiled their Internet strategy,'' said Randall McCallum, CEO and President of Totally Hip. ''We also believe LiveSlideShow users will eventually graduate to LiveStage Professional and desktop video tools such as Apple's popular iMovie(TM) or Final Cut Pro(TM), and this fits perfectly with Apple's desktop video and Internet strategy.'' Totally Hip Software's mission is to add interactivity to the Web. The company founded in 1995, is a developer and marketer of interactive Web development tools. These include the award-winning LiveStage, LiveStage Professional and WebPainter products that empower users to develop, produce and deliver the most engaging experience on the Web. The Company is traded on the Canadian Venture Exchange (Trading Symbol: THW). (C) 2000 Totally Hip Software Inc. All rights reserved. TOTALLY HIP SOFTWARE INC. Per:''Randall H. McCallum'' ----------------------- Randall H. McCallum, CEO & President The Canadian Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this News Release. %SEDAR: 00003922E