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• Stimulus 4 includes a New Thumbnail Viewer, Redesigned Interface, Support for Additional Media Formats, and More!

Manage your Media, Mac or Win

Stimulus 4 new interface and features

Electric Butterfly, Inc. has announced the release of Stimulus 4 for Mac OS X, the popular media browser that provides an easy way to manage and enjoy your personal collection of digital music, photos, and video clips. Completely redesigned with a brand new interface and new features, Stimulus 4 is now available in a Mac OS X Edition and for the first time, a Windows XP Edition.

Tired of juggling between iTunes, various image viewers, and other players just to enjoy your library of digital media files? Discouraged by the expensive prices of media management software? Stimulus is your solution! With support for 24 popular file formats, Stimulus works intuitively like a file browser, allowing you to select and view/play all of your favorite images, audio files, and video clips from within a single application. Rename, move, and delete files to organize your digital life. Play slideshows, add favorites to custom lists, adjust audio bass and treble settings, zoom, rotate, print, search, and much more.

Stimulus 4 is a major update that includes several new features and dozens of enhancements. Here are a few highlights:

• -- Tiger Compatible!
• -- New Thumbnails feature!
• -- Redesigned interface!
• -- Enhanced new Favorites system for better media organizing.
• -- Rename, Move, Delete, and Organize media files.
• -- Option to open selected files in external helper applications.
• -- Show selected files in the Finder.
• -- Re-engineered codebase for more efficient media browsing.
• -- Improved Mouse Scroll Wheel support.
• -- Improved search engine with faster speed and more features.
• -- Optimized browsing and playback of Audio CDs on Mac OS X Tiger.
• -- Improved File Properties window.
• -- Added support for AAC audio (.m4a and .m4p), AudioBook (.m4b), and MPEG-4 video (.mp4).
• -- Fixed the Print feature so that the current image or video frame is scaled to fit properly within the page margins when printing.

* Additional Product Information: (www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/)
* Free Demo Download Available: www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/downloads.asp
* Pricing: single user license $19.95 US, which includes unlimited e-mail support. Stimulus 4 is a free update for all registered Stimulus customers.
* Intel Mac Users: Stimulus 4 is not yet available as a Universal Binary, but it should run fine on Intel Macs under Rosetta. Electric Butterfly plans to release a Universal Binary version later this year, which will be a free update for all registered Stimulus customers.
* About Electric Butterfly, Inc. ( 1995) is an award-winning web design and software development company, responsible for such products as HelpLogic, Stimulus, WSL-Amazon, UniHelp and the popular developer site, RBGarage.com.

LOS ANGELES, California (April 4, 2006)

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