1. What is Shaker^® ?

Shaker is an online presentation service created to enable users to easily produce rich, visually engaging business presentations.
Shaker's core module is a RIA built with Macromedia^® Flash MX^® technology that won the 2003 Flashforward Flash Film Festival's Technical Merit category award.

2. Where can I see a demo of Shaker^®?

Since Shaker^® is online software, you can not only see a demo, but try the application right away, without needing to install anything on your system. On the home page of our website, www.shaker.hu, click the box reading 'take a look'. This will launch a presentation that we made to introduce Shaker.

3. What happens if I register for your free trial?

After submitting the registration form, we will immediately send you your trial access codes (username and password). Once you have these, visit our website, and click the Customer Login icon to go to the login page. Here, type in your username and password and click enter.

4. Where do I start to create a new presentation in Shaker?

Once you're logged in, you are brought to your dedicated user page on the Shaker system. In fact, you are directly brought to the Folders file-management utility of our system. This is your file manager utility, so this is what you use to view, open, create, delete, share or clone your presentations.
To create a new presentation, click the 'new' button located in the row of buttons below the first panel of the Folders utility. On the next page, you should give a title for your presentation, choose one of the available presentation templates to use, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the 'create new presentation' button. This initiates a download process, which terminates by opening an empty presentation.

5. How can I buy a Shaker^® license?

You can enter our webshop by clicking the Shop menu on our homepage, where you can buy 12 month subscriptions to Shaker^® using your credit card.
If you want to buy a Shaker^® subscription, please read our Licensing Terms and Pricelist, accessed also from our home page.

6. How can I get a custom-made presentation template?

Shaker^®'s template structure is an open structure, meaning that any experienced Flash designer can build templates for Shaker^®. On a case-to-case basis Mimoza designers will create custom-made templates. Template design costs will vary depending on the complexity of the template requested.

7. What software/hardware environment is required to use Shaker^®?

In principle, Shaker^® will run in any software/hardware environment where a browser software with Macromedia^®'s free Flash Player™ Plug-in installed is available. Shaker^® requires only these widely accessible and free third-party software to run. Macromedia^®'s Flash Player™ is available for most common OS-s and browsers, including most common Windows PC, Mac or Linux configurations.
Shaker was tested on Internet Explorer^® 5.5 and up and Netscape^® 7.0 and up browsers, so presentation editing is only supported for these two browsers (for both Windows and Mac versions).

8. How can I use Shaker in a conference room where there is no internet connection available?

Shaker^® lets you export your presentations into traditional files that you can save to your PC or a CD. You can make standalone files to run on a Windows^® platforms (.exe). The export function also lets you create plain .swf files (Macromedia^® Flash MX^® native file format) that can be easily inserted into your existing website. The file export function is accessed through the Folders file management utility.

9. How do I send presentations that I've made with Shaker^® to my partners?

Shaker^® supports the following means of distribution:

Online:
- you can create any number of 'guest' accounts for your clients/partners. guests can view but cannot edit the presentations you share with them.
- you can export your presentation to .swf format, and easily insert it into your existing corporate website.
- you can use the digital handout feature, which allows you to create multiple 'guest' users for the same presentation in one go.

Offline:
- you can create standalone files for Windows systems, and distribute these via e-mail or on a CD-ROM disk.

Also, you can make printouts of your slides, and distribute those.

10. A software installed on my own PC is more reliable, don't you think?

Just think about this: where do you prefer storing your important corporate data - on your company's server, or on your own PC? Our server runs in a secure server room, with guaranteed bandwidth, protected by an industrial class firewall. User's files are protected by the username/password access authorization procedure our system uses when you log in. The internet data communication that goes on between our server and a client PC is encrypted, providing much greater security than e.g. e-mail communication. Presentation data is protected by autosave and file recovery mechanisms that will save and recover unsaved information in the event of a connection failure or some other technical problem.

11. What is the typical size of Shaker presentation files?

Macromedia^® Flash MX^® is a technology optimized for the web, so file sizes are typically small. For instance, an exported, standalone presentation file (.exe) will typically be around 1.2 Megabytes, and this includes the Shaker software, the presentation template, the presentation content, and the Flash™ Player needed to play the presentation. The final size of your presentation will mostly depend on the number of images, audio/video material you include in your presentation, as these files are inserted into the presentation with their original file sizes.

12. What multimedia elements can I use with Shaker^®?

Image files of .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .png, .bmp, and .tga format. Image formats that support transparency (.png) will be displayed with their original transparency.

Video/audio: Shaker^® will use video and audio materials converted to the .swf file format (Flash's native file format)