Have you ever seen a familiar face on the big screen, but can’t recall a name or where you saw that actor last?  The IMDb app has your back.  Just like the website, the Internet Movie Database app lets you search the world’s largest collection of actors, actresses and celebrities to see a complete history of appearances.  Or maybe you’re looking for information on a specific movie or TV show?  Access over 2 million titles and view user ratings, expert reviews, plot summaries and more.  You can even search local movie theaters, find showtimes, get directions and watch trailers before deciding which blockbuster to see next!

The fun (and addicting) Words With Friends app has been catching on like wild fire throughout our office. Play the virtual crossword puzzle-like game with friends and family by syncing the app through your Twitter or Facebook or by creating a Words With Friends user account. Have fun building words and trying to outscore your friends by reaching for those bonus squares. Warning: this game is incredibly difficult to put down! Are you hooked yet?

Need a new ride? You could win a brand new car with Chevrolet’s Game Time app while watching the Super Bowl. When the game begins on February 5 at 6:30 p.m. ET, the app will assign users a personal “license” plate number. If your license plate matches the plate number on one of the 20 cars featured in the four Chevrolet Super Bowl spots, you’ll win the Chevy it’s on. The app also poses trivia questions throughout the game for chances to win other prizes. A free car is certainly an initiative to watch those Chevy ads closely!

The Perfect OCR app is a document scanner with high quality OCR (optical character recognition) capabilities. Simply scan a document or image with your smartphone’s camera and the app’s OCR applies a text layer over the image to enable editing. The app can be a very useful, as it gives you the ability to edit, save and share documents as PDFs away from your desk or copy room. A must have for people who edit work on the go!

If you love web analytics like many of us here at SCG do, you may be interested in the benefits of the Ego app. Ego gives you one convenient location and simple interface to check and manage web statistics. With support for Ember, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint, Squarespace, Tumblr, Twitter and Vimeo, you can easily view all of your websites’ stats without logging in and out of multiple analytics sites. The app tracks daily, hourly and monthly views, feed subscription totals and changes and more.

Can’t make it to New York for the New Year’s Eve celebrations? The 2012 Times Square Ball app puts you in the middle of the action. The app lets you watch the ball drop on your phone—no matter where you are in the world. Users will be privy to a live 6 hour stream of New Year’s Eve in Times Square. You also have the ability to participate in the festivities by uploading photos of you and your friends for a chance to be featured on the gigantic Toshiba screen located directly below the ball.

From all of us at SCG, have a happy and healthy New Year!

If you do the majority of your shopping online, Slice is a must-have tool. The Slice app monitors your online purchases and notifies you when they’ve been shipped. It works by scanning your email periodically for receipts, then pulls data such as confirmation and tracking numbers (through a secure system) and adds them to one itemized list. Just sync the service with your email address to begin getting updates on all your online shopping purchases. Slice’s receipt-keeping and package-tracking is so simple you won’t need to do anything else.

If you are overwhelmed with holiday shopping each year (and now you are faced with just 7 days until “D Day,”) the Christmas Wrapped app is for you. It integrates with your iPhone’s address book and allows you to create an organized Christmas shopping list through your contact list. If it’s gift ideas you’re looking for, Christmas Wrapped offers suggestions based on each contact’s gender, age and hobbies. The app also tracks your spending so you don’t exceed your gift budget. And don’t worry—the app is password protected to hide your list from prying eyes. With the help of Christmas Wrapped, the only thing left for you to do is actually wrap those presents.

Pinterest is now mobile! Never heard of Pinterest? Then you’re in for a treat. Think of Pinterest as a digital bulletin board that lets you “pin” your favorite images, recipes, crafting inspirations, travel destinations and much more. It’s a simple way to organize and share discoveries on the web. Users can collect inspiration for home decorating, save pictures and articles for an approaching holiday event, plan weddings, or gather recipes in a single place using visual cues. Thanks to the Pinterest app, Pinteresters have the same browsing and repinning capabilities on the go. The mobile app also makes it easy to take a picture directly from an iOS device and pin it to one of your pinboards to share with friends.

With winter comes falling temperatures, harsh and blustery winds, and cold heaps of snow. If you’re from the Midwest—or any place that experiences snowy winters—you know that driving in this season’s weather can be tricky and, at times, dangerous. That’s why North Dakota State University developed the Winter Survival Kit for drivers stranded in blizzard conditions. If you find yourself stuck in severe winter weather, this app will determine your geographic location and contact emergency services. A gas calculator even estimates how long you can run your engine on your remaining fuel to stay warm. Drivers can also enable an alert with reminders to periodically turn off the engine and inspect the exhaust pipe for snow buildup—a vital step to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning. In addition, the Winter Survival Kit app gives helpful tips for putting together a physical winter survival kit and preparing your vehicle for winter driving. Drive safe this winter!