For Thanksgiving, Lifehacker published a list of free software its editors are most thankful for. I'm happy to say I've used 8 of the top 10 and 24 of all 46, mostly thanks to Lifehacker's useful reviews.
Mozilla's Thunderbird email software is sporting a new add-on "Google Contacts" will sync your Google contacts list with your Thunderbird address book. Jeez, why keep using Outlook 2000?
In other Mozilla news, Songbird is a free, open-source jukebox application. Check it out: it looks a ton like iTunes (which I hate). However, it is open-source and extensible which means it must be better than iTunes. Better yet, the QuickTime Playback add-on lets you play iTunes-formatted songs. After you ditch Outlook for Thunderbird, consider ditching iTunes for Songbird.
I just learned that Google has bought 20 million newspapers. That's a lot of classifieds and car and real estate ads. Google will scan them for posterity and feed them into their search engine, which is good because we'll need something to remember what newspapers looked like once they're gone.
I created a social network over the weekend using Ning.com. Ning lets you create your own social networks, a la Facebook. It took me about 2-3 hours, but only because I was being picky about the color scheme. Ning is intuitive, easy to set up, and pretty full featured, and I think the layout is much more user friendly than Facebook, which I find to be an atrocious mess. Ning might be an upcoming "next big thing"; who wouldn't find it cool to create their own social network? Here's a screenshot:
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