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!

If you’ve ever tried five different pizza places in your neighborhood before finding the right one, the Oink app should help make your next pursuit nearly effortless. Developed by Milk Inc. co-founder Kevin Rose (who also brought us Digg.com), Oink is a micro-recommendation app. But instead of rating places, you rate the things inside. Rather than help you figure out where to go, Oink users create a ranking of what to do or purchase at a particular venue. For example, you could easily find the most popular items on a restaurant’s menu or see if a friend has a favorite menu item. And if you find something worth recommending, it’s easy to upload a photo, rate it and share it with friends. Your recommendations can also be posted through Facebook and Twitter. The goal is to help users get a better look at what’s good (or not so good) at the places they visit.

Are you brave enough to venture out to the mall on Black Friday? Are you already creating your game plan, researching the best deals and compiling lists of your most coveted electronics to purchase? The Decide iPhone app can make weathering the hustle and bustle of Black Friday a little easier. The Decide app is more than just a product review and rating tool. Decide allows consumers to check current prices of electronics and get instant price and model predictions, so you’ll know if it is most advantageous to buy now or wait for a better deal or a newer model. Once you’ve searched for an item, share Decide’s results with friends via Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. With the ability to compare consumer electronics prices across nearby stores and the web, the Decide app is a worthwhile tool for any holiday shopper.

Will you be traveling this holiday season? If so, you probably know that traveling during November and December can be hectic. The My TSA app can help. Developed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, the app allows passengers to check the status of flights, gives information about baggage rules, lists up-to-date security checkpoint wait times and much more to allow for easier travel. The app also gives tips for packing and dressing to speed through security at the airport. It’s a helpful app that is sure to make holiday travel a little less stressful. Happy travels!