Totally Hip Announces Bundling Deal With KB Gear Interactive

Posted on 05-29-00

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Vancouver, BC - May 29, 2000 - Totally Hip Software announces a software bundling deal with KB Gear Interactive's Jam Studio product involving custom Jam Studio
and WebPainter 3 software, both by Totally Hip Software. WebPainter is Totally Hip's award winning graphics and animation product and Jam Studio software is a
simple, easy to use graphics tool created for KB Gear Interactive by Totally Hip to be included as part of its Jam Studio product. The Jam Studio product is a web
graphics tool kit that contains a top rated graphics tablet and easy-to-use software that allows the user to create great web pages and graphics.

KB Gear Interactive is a fast-growing company based in Minnesota and a leading developer of award winning products that allow young computer trekkers and teens to
use the computer and the Internet to learn, communicate and have fun in countless different ways. Its proprietary "Jam" brand is geared for teens and "tweens" while its
products licensed for Disney and Little Tikes are made for younger computer trekkers. KB Gear Interactive is breaking the mold of standard business computing with
cool computer gear bundled with the hottest software, providing a total technology solution that helps families navigate a cyber trail that is more efficient, highly creative
and loads of fun. During 1999, KB Gear's products were sold in more than 14,000 retail storefronts and extensively online. KB Gear Interactive is a privately held
company, headquartered in Eden Prairie (Minneapolis), Minnesota. Product information is available by calling (800) 926-3066 or on KB Gear's web site:
www.kbgear.com.

Jam Studio is a web graphics tool kit that contains a top rated graphics tablet and easy-to-use software used together to create great web pages and graphics.
With Jam Studio, users can create and draw cool graphics, organize the graphics into a web page using the Jam Studio software by Totally Hip (included), then publish
the web site. Drawing, creating and image editing is much easier and more accurate with Jam Studio than it is with a mouse and users also get the powerful and easy to
use WebPainter 3 for more advanced graphics and animation creation.

Totally Hip has been working with KB Gear Interactive developing an ongoing relationship for almost a year now. Totally Hip's WebPainter 3 is bundled with KB Gear's
Pablo Internet Edition that was released in August 1999 and is one of the top selling entry level graphics tablets on the market today. "We are very happy that KB Gear
continues to highly regard our products and company for their software needs. This is a significant deal to us with a good number of minimum guaranteed units for a
tablet orientated product." said David Dicaire, COO & GM of Totally Hip. "We feel it's a good fit as we understand the multimedia software industry and how to take it to
the web and KB Gear Interactive understand the products, distribution and sales that make for a great ongoing relationship."

"Totally Hip's offering fit perfectly with our goals for Jam Studio," says Jim Triggs, KB Gear President and CTO. "We believe this product --which combines a great
graphics tablet, easy-to-use software and an online web page creation option -- will be the first total toolkit for making great, personalized web pages."

Jam Studio (SRP $69US) is easy to use, offering an effortless way to design, personalize and publish a hip web page. KB Gear Interactive will host a number of
"Jam-related" activities on its new web site jamonline.com (set to launch in August 2000), where Jam Studio users can publish their web pages and share graphics.
Jam Studio users will have unlimited free access to the site. Jam Studio is one of four products in KB Gear's new "Jam" line that dramatically expands and enhances
ways to get connected online and should be in retail stores this summer. Other "Jam" products include JamCam 3.0 (SRP: $99US), a revved-up, higher performing
version of the company's top selling, entry level digital camera; JamP3 (SRP: $99US), an MP3 player that delivers top quality sound for under $100, and;
Jam-It! (SRP: $49US), a digital sound lab that fits in the palm of your hand.

Several companies interested in bundling our new LiveSlideShow product also have approached Totally Hip. LiveSlideShow is a simple, easy-to-use way of creating
interactive slide shows. The product was developed from our LiveStage Professional technology. Simply drag in images or pictures in any of 30 plus formats, drag in
any of 100 plus transitions between slides, simply pop up the text caption window and enter scrolling text to each slide and drag in pre-recorded sounds or record your
own slide by slide narration and just hit a button to output it as a QuickTime movie for delivery and playback. LiveSlideShow has been released in beta form on the
Macintosh and should be shipping by summer for both Windows and Macintosh computers.

"The response to LiveSlideShow has been pretty encouraging up to now and to already have numerous companies approach us on it is gratifying", said Randall
McCallum CEO & President of Totally Hip. "We think it's a great digital camera, scanner and even computer bundle product that should give us exposure to a broader
and larger market."

Totally Hip Software's mission is to add interactivity to the Web. The company founded in 1995, is a leading developer and marketer of interactive Web development
tools. These include the award-winning LiveStage Professional; LiveStage and WebPainter products as well as the new LiveSlidShow 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



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