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American Refugee Committee
I have the great privilege of working at ARC's headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. ARC is an international humanitarian relief organization that provides aids to refugees and internally displaced people. ARC works for the survival, health and well-being of victims of war and civil conflict. ARC seeks to enable them to rebuild productive lives of dignity and purpose while striving always to respect the values and cultures of those served.
A Couple of Gurus
They are network infrastructure experts. They specialize in network configuration, security and support; hardware selection and installation; workstation and user support; and CIO-level consulting and planning.
e!motion
A website development company based in Lithuania, they developed my website! They have clients all over the world.
LCC International University
The university in Lithuania that I attended as a study abroad student in college and later worked at as the Director of Expatriate Recruitment.
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression. I worked in their Washington, DC office for 4 years. The people and work of IJM are incredible.
communicating
Skype
Talk free, anywhere in the world, over the internet! I love this and have used it many, many times this year to talk with friends overseas.
International Calling Codes
Tel3Advantage
This calling card had some of the best rates I could find. I love the way it works. You don’t need a physical card and you can manage your account online. You can even create speed dial numbers for phone numbers you use a lot.
Free 411
Make 411, information calls for free!
Hoops and YoYo
I love these guys. They never fail to make me laugh. They are my favorite Hallmark e-cards.
Meebo
Sign in to Yahoo, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, or AIM.
Letterpop
Create your own newsletters online if you don't have a lot of time to create your own template.
Type in your letter and they will mail it for you!
news & weather
Human Rights Watch
Reuters
AlertNet
NOAA (USA)
Weather Underground
travel
Currency Converter
Time Zone Converter
Pack Whiz | A packing list generator.
Trip Advisor | Great for all kinds of travel reviews and recommendations.
Seat Guru | Pick your own in-flight services and seating on airlines!
Ryan Air | Low-cost European airline!
Wizz Air | New low-cost airline for Eastern Europe!
Kayak | Cheap airfare search engine.
Air Gorilla | Cheap airfare search engine for Eastern Europe.
Eurolines | European bus line. It even goes to Lithuania!
Cheap O Air | Cheap airfare search engine.
MeetWays | Find a halfway point between two locations.
Mile by Mile | Plan your road trip.
blogs by friends
Next Gen Gurus | all about the next generation of Schoolcraft Gurus
My Life | Kristy O’Neal
Feruzka | Feruza Airpova
Suzzzanna | Suzanna Krivulskaya
Faye in SL | Faye Yu
One of Grace | Anna Detrich
The Stave Family Review | Andrew & Kim Stave
blogs | other
dornob | Daily doors to the future of design.
Gizmodo | The Gadget Blog
Geek Alerts | Gadgets and design.
Daily Candy | What is hip in your city?
enviro | friendly
Ideal Bite | Offering bite-sized ideas for light, green living. Great, practical website. I get their daily bites.
SwapThing | Wanna swap something?
The Freecycle Network | Give and get stuff for free. Find your city.
photo | graphy
Flickr
This is almost certainly the best photo management and application in the world.
Gimp
A free GNU Image Manipulation Program. Use it to edit and touch up your photos!
Moo MiniCards
Choose your favourite Flickr pics and make 100 minicards.
Photo Clips
A new way to display your photos.
Sharpcast
A beautifully rich desktop photo organizer that’s perfectly mirrored on the web, across all your PCs, and even on your phone.
shopping
Etsy
A place to buy and sell things handmade.
Half.com
A great place to buy or sell new/used books, music, and movies.
Mint
Free software to help you manage your money.
Refund Please
Get cash back on past purchases.
Simply Glowing
Candles made out of soy!
ThisNext is a shopcasting network where you can recommend, share and discover great new products.
I've purchased many shoes on this website. Free shipping, free return shipping. Order the same pair of shoes in several sizes and return the ones that don't fit - for free!
cool tech
Crazy Egg
Track, evaluate, and improve your website.
CutePDF
A free pdf writer! If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat Standard, you can use this to create pdf documents easily.
Dariolius
Split up large files and create a program to reassemble them. This works great for huge files that you want to email, especially videos!
FolderMarker
One mouse-click and it becomes clear at once, which documents have a high priority, and which of them have normal or low priority. Which operations are finished completely, which are half-done and which haven’t started yet.
Zamzar
Free file conversion.
How Stuff Works
A source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.
Kim Komando’s Kool Sites
This site is simple, but this is where my dad finds a lot of the cool tech sites.
Oh, Don’t Forget…
Send reminder text messages to yourself.
Remember the Milk
Manage your to-do lists online.
Snippy
How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and copied it to an email message?
ThinkGeek
Stuff for the smart masses.
music
Pandora | Create your own music station!
Deezer | The first free online juke box in the world! Choose your own songs, create your own playlists!
Live 365 | A wealth of internet radio stations. Almost anything you could want.
Lithuanian Radio Station | Click on “Interneto Radijas” on the right-hand menu.
Qloud | People powered music search.
FixTunes | Need your iTunes music files fixed?
Lyrics Plugin | Add lyrics to Windows Media Player or Winamp.
