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For many, Thanksgivukkah means time spent traveling, eating, shopping and visiting family and friends. The holidays also serve up plenty of pain points just begging for tech-related solutions. There are apps for returning terrible gifts, for traffic avoidance, for dreidel-spinning, and not to be left out are apps for making appetizers. We rounded up some collected intelligence, including a quite relevant Mr. Bean gif.

Great iOS apps for making holiday travel easier
— CNET

Be thankful for all the apps that will make Thanksgiving less horrible
— TechHive

9 apps to guarantee a ‘well done’ Thanksgiving feast — pun intended
— Tech Cocktail

8 iPad apps for the 8 nights of Hanukkah
— Gigaom

5 holiday shopping apps you may as well download now
— The Street