Thanksgiving Timesavers

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!).

Ecofabulous offers a green Thanksgiving guide (down to the tableware). If your parents tend to celebrate your visits by asking you to fix their computers, Faster Forward's got you covered: "Debugging deep-seated software ailments is difficult enough under ideal conditions, much less when you're operating in a haze of tryptophan and pinot noir. So you have to prepare for this possibility before you head home for the holidays." Finally, try to remember that the point of the holiday is to chill out and eat a lot with friends and family. The Simple Dollar offers tactics for a cheaper and saner Thanksgiving dinner--that's something we can all be thankful for!