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November 21, 2005

ThinkFree Turns iPod into Portable PowerPoint Presentation Graphics Tool

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TJ Kang

TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, Inc

ThinkFree Allows iPod Users to Create, Edit, Store and Transport PowerPoint Files and Use Them on Any PC or Run Them Standalone on All New iPods With Color Displays

Paris — (Market Wire ) — 09/20/2005 — Apple Expo - ThinkFree, Inc., a leading developer of standards-compatible office software, announced general availability of ThinkFree OfficeR 3 Show, iPod Edition, a software that allows anyone with an iPodR (or compatible MP3 device) to create, edit and transport full-blown PowerPoint presentations, even on a computer that does not run MicrosoftR Office. In addition, the software allows a PowerPoint slide show in the palm of a hand on all new iPods with a color display, as well as other leading portable multimedia players.

ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition lets anyone create and edit powerful presentation graphics on any PC or MacR, then (with the color iPod or portable multimedia player) display them anywhere, from the campus to the golf course. This means sales professionals, executives and students can leave their laptops at home and place sophisticated graphic presentations in the hands of their prospects using the new software.

"Several months ago I had to give a presentation to a small group of investors in a London hotel room. I whipped out an iPod and connected it to a TV using a video cable. With the iPod in the palm of my hand, I ran the slide show prepared with ThinkFree Office 3 Show. The investors thought it was so cool that the first question they asked was where they could get the software. Since then I had to tell a lot of people to wait until we productize a special version of ThinkFree Office 3 Show. Finally, ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition is ready," said TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, Inc.  "Some people like the product because of the freedom it gives them, others like it because it gives them an excuse to expense an iPod purchase. I have to warn them though, regardless of the reasons for using the product,their presentation gear may get more attention than the presentation itself. ThinkFree Office 3 Show’s small foot print and cross platform capability make it an ideal companion software for an iPod. Now students and business people have a new excuse to buy an iPod."

ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition comes with more than 130 PowerPoint compatible drawings and AutoShapes, 17 animation effects and 40 transitions. In addition to the standard .ppt file format, it can save documents as HTML, the World Wide Web standard format, as PDF file or as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphix) format. The software loads from the iPod into the memory of a computer the iPod is connected to, regardless of whether the computer is running Mac OS X or Windows. ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition installs on any iPod, iPod Mini or iPod nano if they have 100 MB available space. Although iPod nano can show slide shows on its color screen, it cannot be connected to an external monitor. ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition, runs on either Mac OSR X 10.4 or Windows 2000/XP as long as the computer has more than 256MB RAM. For complete product and purchase details (EUR 19.99 / USD 29.95) on the ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition visit www.thinkfree.com 

ThinkFree, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, California, is a leading developer of platform independent office solutions. Since 2003, the company became a division of Haansoft Inc., a publicly held company on the Korean KOSDAQ stock market [030520]. ThinkFree’s mission is to offer market-leading software solutions that leverage the power of the Internet and provide users with a consistent, unified, and productive experience regardless of computing platform.

ThinkFree Office 3 is a Microsoft Office compatible office suite of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics applications that are usable as an offline downloadable version or online as a free Internet service. It features cross-platform support and is compatible with Linux, Windows, and Macintosh platforms.

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