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<p>StudioZee announces ZephIR! v1.0 now shipping</p>
<p>Infrared ADB product for the Macintosh offers a wonderful experience in<br />
home stereo and theatre control directly from your desktop.</p>
<p>HELENA, Montana, March 31, 2000. studioZee announced today that it's first<br />
product, the ZephIR!, is now shipping and available at their online store-<br />
<a href="http://www.thezephir.com" title="www.thezephir.com">www.thezephir.com</a> . This exciting new Macintosh accessory enhances every<br />
Mac users life by giving them full control of their home entertainment<br />
devices right from the desktop. "Surf your music as you surf the net!"</p>
<p>The ZephIR! is a small, stylish ADB device that contols home theatre<br />
components using infrared technology. It works on all ADB Macs from System<br />
7.1 up to System 9.0. The ZephIR! is compatible with the new USB type iMacs<br />
and G4's using a simple ADB/USB adapter available separately. Because of<br />
its ADB based design, the ZephIR! does not require an AC wall adapter and<br />
does not compete for a serial port.</p>
<p>The ZephIR! is targeted at Macintosh enthusiasts who spend a lot of time at<br />
the keyboard and desire to enjoy their home stereo components while they<br />
work or play. The ideal user is someone who has home theatre equipment and<br />
likes to surf, chat, work, or just generally spend time at their Mac.</p>
<p>Among the components normally controlled by a ZephIR! are the increasingly<br />
popular multi-disc CD players, receivers, VCRs, mini-discs, TVs, digital<br />
satellite, cable TV, and others.</p>
<p>studioZee first unveiled the ZephIR! at Macworld Expo 2000 in San Francisco<br />
and offered a special to early adopters. Since then, they have taken the<br />
feedback from the early adopters and focused on making the interface as<br />
intuitive and simple as possible while adding quite a number of new<br />
features.</p>
<p>The application provided with the ZephIR! is truly feature rich. It allows<br />
the user to create "Custom Remotes" right on their desktop. Custom Remotes<br />
are easy to setup and can contain mixtures of buttons from any components.<br />
This means that with a click of the mouse, any functions available on those<br />
multitudes of "coffee table remotes" can be performed from the desktop. The<br />
ZephIR! application goes on to much more sophisticated levels than simple<br />
virtual remote controllers, however.</p>
<p>The ZephIR! application comes with an extremely friendly and powerful<br />
multi-disc CD management system. After the simple process of<br />
"net-cataloging" their CDs, user's can browse their CD Library with the<br />
ZephIR! application. Next the Magazine Manager incorporates standard drag<br />
and drop techniques to quickly and easily put a multi-disc CD player right<br />
on the desktop. Any titles or tracks are then playable by simply double<br />
clicking on them. Multiple multi-disc CD players are easily handled. As an<br />
extra bonus, a Playlist manager lets you create, edit, and save playlists<br />
to be downloaded anytime with the click of a button. All drag and drop.</p>
<p>The robust ZephIR! application also introduces Channel Guides, an<br />
innovative way to help users surf their DSS, cable TV, and DMX channels.<br />
Channel Guides allow the user to easily transform the complicated numerical<br />
interface on channel based components into a customizable menu on the<br />
desktop. Channel Guides can be placed on custom remotes by simply dragging<br />
them there.</p>
<p>The ZephIR! hardware is completely Applescript based and therefore savvy to<br />
more sophisticated control by the really serious power user. For home<br />
automation, the ZephIR! is easily integrated into an Xtension environment (<br />
<a href="http://www.shed.com" title="www.shed.com">www.shed.com</a> ) . Hypercard is a very useful tool to make the ZephIR!<br />
perform some really cool tricks such as titling mini-discs and entering CD<br />
titles into multi-disc CD players by simply typing from the keyboard. The<br />
ZephIR! also works over networks.</p>
<p>The ZephIR! is compatible with most inexpensive infrared relaying systems<br />
to allow the user to control components in other rooms.</p>
<p>studioZees online store is located at <a href="http://www.thezephir.com" title="www.thezephir.com">www.thezephir.com</a> and was opened on<br />
March 31, 2000. Tutorials and technical information can be found there as<br />
well. The ZephIR! is currently shipping to US and Canada. International<br />
shipping requests can be directed to <a href="mailto:intsales@thezephir.com">intsales@thezephir.com</a>. All other<br />
requests should be directed to <a href="mailto:info@thezephir.com">info@thezephir.com</a> .</p>
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