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<p>SpeedDial for Skype lets Mac Users Cut the Cord</p>
<p>Shareware lets users roam as far as their wireless connections allow.</p>
<p>San Francisco, CA, June 6, 2006 - NHANDZ, a digital home company offering<br />
input devices and software that enable remote control of PC/Mac's,<br />
announced the release of SpeedDial for Skype. SpeedDial for Skype works<br />
with the popular VOIP service, Skype (owned by eBay), allowing users to use<br />
Skype remotely, away from their Macs.</p>
<p>SpeedDial lets consumers create keyboard shortcuts or "hotkeys" for making,<br />
answering and hanging up calls using only a keyboard---and not requiring a<br />
user to find a flat surface for a mouse or even be in view of a computer<br />
screen---to use Skype.</p>
<p>The SpeedDial program has built-in speed dial settings for answering and<br />
hanging up calls, and a simple interface to automatically create speed<br />
dials for anyone on their Skype contact list or to add new speed dial<br />
contacts.</p>
<p>SpeedDial for Skype is the latest VOIP offering by NHANDZ, promoting<br />
remote/mobile use of Skype while in the home, following previous Mac OS X<br />
and Windows PC releases of Speakables for Skype, voice recognition<br />
software. Speakables is the voice recognition unit of NHANDZ.</p>
<p>With SpeedDial and Speakables, the company is encouraging consumers to "cut<br />
the cord" from their Macs and PCs by providing solutions that allow them to<br />
control Skype and other programs, when away from their computers, and in<br />
relaxed settings in the home, using complementary devices like wireless<br />
keyboards and headsets (eg. bluetooth).</p>
<p>"SpeedDial is a terrific addition to wireless keyboards and headsets,<br />
speakerphones and iSight - basically gadgets that everyone already uses,"<br />
says Benjamin Factor, Marketing Manager of NHANDZ. "It provides a lot more<br />
freedom since you don=92t even have to be in view of your monitor, you can<br />
roam as far as your wireless devices will allow. Why would anyone want to<br />
be stuck in front of their computer when they don=92t have to be?"</p>
<p>=46or users who have connected their Macs to their (big screen) TVs to use<br />
the TV both as a TV screen and monitor, they can still continue to make and<br />
receive Skype calls without having to switch back from TV viewing. Using a<br />
wireless headset and keyboard, for instance, Skype will announce incoming<br />
calls and users can take and make calls, seamlessly.</p>
<p>"Most Mac/TV users split the audio between computer speakers and their TV<br />
audio output so they are still notified of an incoming call even if they<br />
don=92t have their TV in computer mode. And with Skype's spoken Events<br />
preferences set, you can actually hear who's calling," adds Factor. "Even<br />
if someone else is using the Mac, you can still make and receive Skype<br />
calls in your bedroom, living room, bathroom or outdoors, and still have<br />
privacy."</p>
<p>The company is offering SpeedDial as a free 30 day trial to encourage<br />
increased adoption of computer-based VOIP, and convergence to the Mac/PC as<br />
the central hub of entertainment media in the digital home. The company's<br />
software solutions like SpeedDial and Speakables are being released in<br />
advance of a handheld wireless (thumb) keyboard with integrated mouse,<br />
(NControl, that the company plans to release later this year. NControl will<br />
permit even greater freedom to consumers, who will then not be limited by<br />
larger and less mobile standard wireless keyboards.</p>
<p>"Think of a Blackberry-like device to control your computer and that's<br />
NControl," says Factor. "This really is THE killer app of the digital home<br />
- the combination of a handheld keyboard that can provide the convenience<br />
of using simple hotkeys (SpeedDial) or voice (Speakables) to control a<br />
Mac/PC."</p>
<p>Pricing and Availability</p>
<p>SpeedDial for Skype (for Mac OS X 10.3 or newer) is immediately available<br />
for download as a free 30 day trial from the NHANDZ website at<br />
<a href="http://www.nhandz.com" title="www.nhandz.com">www.nhandz.com</a>. And then $7 to purchase.</p>
<p>About NHANDZ</p>
<p>NHANDZ provides innovative input devices and software that encourage<br />
consumers to converge their home entertainment media to their computers, by<br />
making it more convenient and impressive to control their computers<br />
remotely from relaxed areas of the home, away from the desktop.</p>
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