Christina, I must say it's very very sad to hear your site is being closed
because it is the best site about AJ I have ever seen and you are good at it, really. But I'm also depressed because aj gives me full of "good energy" for free and I can't return a favor. It's painfull.
I have a little spare time now and I would be grateful if I could give some help to you and aj.
Some stuff about my humble person to inform you what I could help you with:
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I have a knowledge and experience with site maintaining and the whole computer's half of the world, since 1990
I studied IT in a university (you know: algorithms, programming, engineering, networking, computer graphics, web designing, etc.).
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I have a practice with:
- very bad photos scanning: eliminating the moira, retouching them, color enhancing;
- books OCRing: converting pictures to text (XML, DOC, RTF, PDF, HTMl, etc.);
- photoshop photo retouching: casts, masks, layers, profiles, paths, channels;
- capturing from tv, vcr, avi, dvd;
- movie making;
- DVD to AVI converting: my Worlds Apart avi (384x284x25fps,44kHz16bmono) has 185MB (CD: 700MB);
- graphics formats and converting between them: 2d, 3d, photoshop, corel;
- audio formats and converting between them: analog, cd, mp3, ac3;
- quality lossless reducing size of pictures and html sites: i estimate i could reduce the size by 30-50% percent its orginal size;
- ftp, telnet: windows, unix and novell shells;
- irc, gopher, news, http, smtp etc. operating;
- living in Inet and knowing it since 90's;
- and some else forgotten things.
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Buts:
- recently poor access to Inet, connected 5-10 times a week by dial-up;
- not fluent in English;
- live in Europe.
So I'm rather very good at a technical stuff. Of course I will to do it namelessly; not for fame, only for aj.