NHANDZ and Stardock Announce KLP with Skype Control

San Francisco, CA and Plymouth, MI, August 24, 2006 – NHANDZ, a Digital Home company offering input devices and software that enable remote control of PC/Mac’s and Stardock, a leading developer of Windows enhancement utilities, announced the immediate availability of Keyboard LaunchPad (KLP) with Skype control. KLP with Skype control is a software program that allows users to create keyboard shortcuts or “hotkeys” to control computer applications and other computer functions instantly with a press of a button, without the need to use a mouse or be in view of a monitor screen.

“KLP with Skype control turns any keyboard into a ‘Skype keyboard’,” says Deborah Quinlan, President of NHANDZ, “Users are freed from their desktops to Skype from the comfort of anywhere in their homes using any wireless keyboard.”

KLP with Skype control is the latest product offered by NHANDZ for the popular VOIP service, Skype (owned by eBay). The company’s suite of Skype products for both PC and Mac platforms enable remote control of Skype in other, more relaxed areas of the home—away from the desktop. As such, they are designed to avoid the necessity of using a mouse (and flat surface) nor view of a monitor screen that is typically required for use of Skype.

With the addition of Skype control by NHANDZ to Stardock’s KLP program, Stardock is positioning itself for the Digital Home market, allowing users to launch playlists, Internet radio stations, email, and fully control Windows Media Player and Skype with the stroke of a key.

“KLP lets your wireless keyboard be your main control for the digital home, whether your PC is connected directly to your big screen TV, or if you just like to have full control of your entertainment and communications without having to sit directly in front of your monitor,” says Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock. “As consumers get more digital, we’re helping simplify the control process.”

Key features of the product include the ability to create hotkeys to switch audio devices remotely, such as from a speakerphone to wireless headset, via a simple hotkey. Users can also create easy to remember alphanumeric speed dials. Also included is the ability to access the DTMF (Touch Tones) dial pad for navigating phone menus (instead of by mouse), again allowing full mobility.

NHANDZ is currently partnering with manufacturers of wireless headsets and speakerphones to extend Skype VOIP beyond the desktop to the Digital Home. “Our Skype products are a real boon to manufacturers of advanced VOIP devices, such as wireless headsets that let Skype users roam hands free from up to 200 ft away, and high quality speaker phones that permit clear conversations or conference calls from any part of a room,” says Quinlan.

KLP with Skype control rounds out a set of core products for NHANDZ for both PC and Mac, which allow users to unleash the full power of Skype in the Digital home. The company’s suite of Skype control products fill in the gaps currently preventing the extension of “mouse-centric” Skype to the digital home by offering a variety of hotkey/keyboard shortcut and voice control solutions for both Mac and PC/Dual Boot users. Other offerings include AudioID, a program that announces incoming and outgoing Skype calls so that users can automatically know who's calling without having to look at their PC screen and confirm that their outgoing calls are connecting to the right contact. Also included in both platforms are Speakables for Skype, a voice recognition program that allows users to Skype by voice command.

Pricing and Availability

KLP with Skype control (for Windows XP) is immediately available for free download from the NHANDZ website at www.nhandz.com. The free version of the program allows 5 hotkeys, and users can upgrade to add unlimited hotkeys for $9.95.

About NHANDZ

NHANDZ provides innovative input devices and software that encourage consumers to converge their home entertainment media and communications to their computers, by making it more convenient and impressive to control their computers remotely from relaxed areas of the home, away from the desktop. The company's website is www.nhandz.com.

About Stardock

Stardock is the world’s leading developer of utilities that enhance the Windows experience. Its software is used by over 10 million people worldwide and has been licensed by trendsetting companies like nVidia, ATI, Alienware and Microsoft, plus in movies and on TV. Stardock operates WinCustomize.com, the premier portal for Windows enhancement, drawing more than 3 million unique visitors each month, in addition to one of the world’s largest blogging communities, JoeUser.com. Stardock is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. The company's website is www.stardock.com.

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Contact:
Benjamin Factor
NHANDZ
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www.nhandz.com

Kristin Hatcher, Director of Marketing
Stardock Corporation
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Stephanie Tinsley Schopp
Tinsley-PR (for Stardock)
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