Hostess with the Mostess offers cute table-setting tips, and don't miss their ideas for parties by holiday: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. The Budget Smart Girl's Guide to the Universe has tips for party recipes on a budget. Moving to an Apartment has tips for fuss-free holiday entertaining, including entertaining the younger set: "Kids will not be impressed with your decluttered home or your spray-painted sticks tied with a ribbon. However, you can minimize their boredom by planning ahead to keep them entertained." A bunch of bloggers recently provided their best holiday entertaining tips to the San Francisco Chronicle. Australia Entertains has fun, not-just-red-and-green decorating ideas (peacock teal!) Holidash has a guide for celebrating Christmukkah and planning a cookie swap party. Let's Entertain rounds up ideas for her own Christmas party from around the web. No Fuss Fabulous hosted a fun Santa's Breakfast party, and Celebrations at Home has inspiration for a "Let It Snow" party.

Bringing your netbook along when you travel this holiday season? PCWorld's Mobile Computing blog has a guide to using a netbook on a trip, including fun games that can run on "wimpy netbooks." NetbookBoards.com likes the iGo Netbook Charger, which is "compatible with nearly every netbook and comes with a USB attachment and iGo power tip for phones and iPods." CNET says this netbook messenger bag is one of the most comfortable laptop carrying cases they've tested. Digital Trends picks its top ten netbooks. jkOnTheRun says the beta version of Amazon Kindle for PC (so you don't need a standalone reading device) works well on netbooks. The site also predicts what's in store for the future of netbooks. I4U reviews a dual WiFi/Bluetooth antenna. GigaOM has ten ways to trick out your netbook for free. TuneUp offers ten ways to optimize your netbook--for example, "browsing in fullscreen mode (F11 on keyboard) is much more comfortable on the tiny screen." And don't miss Forbes.com's "Pimp My Netbook": "Ten somewhat illegal, unauthorized and totally fun things you can do with a netbook."

Make cooking your Thanksgiving feast just a little easier with bloggers tech-y tips. The Unofficial Apple Weblog rounds up 5 Thanksgiving iPhone apps, including one that has 27 turkey recipes and generates a shopping list for you. The Contra Costa Times has a great list of Thanksgiving "tech support" resources--don't miss turkey tip tweets from Butterball and the number for the Crisco Pie Hotline! Mashable has a guide to preparing a Thanksgiving feast with a little help from the web--it includes everything from sending invitations to your guests using Evites to finding videos of cooking basics (plus, more iPhone apps!).

Holiday cards are a given, but don't forget about the other digital photo projects you can create this season. At Zazzle, make custom photo stamps. You can also do this at Stamps.com. At SmugMug, create keepsake boxes, photo stickers, and photo coasters, among other cool photo projects. Snapfish lets you make collage photo projects like posters, and photo charm bracelets. At Kodak Gallery, order copies of digital prints and get them framed by hand. At Shutterfly, CenterStage posters let you add your kid's face to Dora, Disney, and other scenes. Howcast has videos of photo projects to do with kids. HP has template for creating gifts like a mini photo wallet. The Digital Camera in Education teaches you how to make a pop-up card. For fun photos, says Hilary's Hideaway, all you need is an empty picture frame. Martha Stewart lists nine holiday photo card projects. The National Gallery of Art's Art Zone has tons of free art programs to create cool photo projects. And if you join Photojojo for free, you'll receive its newsletter of photo tips, DIY projects, and gear. Learn how to photograph a ghost and give yourself a digital makeover.

Should you be using Twitter to boost your career? Of course, now let's get started. First of all, don't miss Twitter 101 for business, the official company guide. And Twitter and LinkedIn have now joined forces. Chris Brogan has 50 ideas on using Twitter for business, including "Share the human side of your company. If you're bothering to tweet, it means you believe social media has value for human connections. Point us to pictures and other human things." Mashable lists the 40 best Twitter brands and the people behind them, writing, "No other medium gets you inside a business or brand [quite] like Twitter." Duct Tape Marketing lists some business applications you can use on Twitter--get a reminder Tweet when you have a meeting, for instance, or post a job opening. Small Business CEO also has 27 Twitter applications your small business can use today, and a follow-up post with 31 more apps. Finally, Copyblogger shares practical stories of real people using Twitter to grow their businesses.

Okay, you don't have to be like the family running The Life Change Experiment--they gave away all their stuff, and though it's fun to read about them, you may not be quite ready to get rid of all your earthly possessions. Check out these blogs for more practical tips: First of all, Jeri's Organizing & Decluttering News explains what exactly clutter is. Unclutterer is the mother of all decluttering sites, covering topics from mealtime to pet houses. Organized Home offers a bounty of advice about cutting clutter and organizing your house; start with their Declutter 101. Mnmlist.com is a blog that epitomizes living small, right down to its title. 

The approaching holidays bring guests--and lots of opportunities to take group shots. Though it might be impossible to take one photo in which every single person thinks they look their best, bloggers have some good tips for composing family pics. 

No need to haul out the handheld calculator (if you even have one anymore)--you can make all kinds of cool calculations online. For the basics, don't forget the calculators built into Google, and figure out someone's time zone at Time and Date (and if you're planning a trip abroad, don't forget about this universal currency calculator). Moving away from the math homework, figure out your life expectancy at Living to 100. Use Self's calculators to calculate your ideal weight range, BMI, and calorie needs. Find out your target heart rate at MayoClinic.com. 

Homework can be as stressful for parents as it is for kids, but these free, student-friendly websites can help make hitting the books more fun. Fact Monster offers an analogy of the day, a daily spelling bee, and searchable biographies of everyone from Roger Daltrey to the Pillsbury Doughboy (it's kind of like Wikipedia for kids). At Cramster, students can join a Great Gatsby study group or post a tricky question for a community of experts, 24 hours a day (plus, there's a special section for parents).