Flayvr has a wacky spelling but a nifty use: The app organizes your photos and videos into interactive albums for easy access. It’s great as a handy tool to catalog your photos or share with others. Given the sheer number of shots taken for any vacation or event, which the app identifies automatically, it doubles as a visual library of your life. Unique technology permits an …

 Psst! Look who’s using Foursquare to foster loyalty? Why, it’s your main competition! Heretofore, you would have to go online and search for the name of each competitor in each social network to find out what they were up to. Now, with Perch, which knows your location, you can easily see where the local competition is finding customers, from Facebook and Twitter to hundreds of deal …

Abductionary, claiming to be the first time-based word search game, puts players in the role of aliens trying to steal words from humans. Substitute Congress for aliens and benefits for words, and you get the idea. The goal is to form words from random letters “sucked out” of human brains before the Language Extractor 6000 explodes. In my day, they called …

 This interactive game lets you test your word skills, providing clues at 120 characters or less. Users can play with different players. Certain descriptive words are forbidden in any category, which ups the intellectual challenge. Winners gain tokens when they guess correct answers. The design is colorful; the game lets players be clever and have fun at the same time. It’s the ultimate parental charge: “Use …

 Does empire building top your do-to list? Then consider Puzzle Craft. Players have to farm, collect taxes, hire workers and more. It’s Bain Capital without bankruptcies, or Monopoly, assuming you …

 Hungry? Busy? No problem, grab your iPad, bring up Seamless and your lunch will be there in a jiff -- paid for through your registered credit card, tip included. If you’ve ever used Seamless online, then you already know that the service features menus for takeout and delivery from over 11,000 restaurants across the U.S. and UK. Mobile already accounts for 40 percent of orders Seamless receives from its 2 million members. They already had apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. During …

 Celltick’s Active lockscreen app organizes all your favorite contacts, apps, and recent calls into one easy-to-use screen. It replaces the standard Android lockscreen with an active screen, enabling fast and easy access to any app, making your favorite apps more accessible. You can search and organize contacts, launch an app, and make calls with just a few clicks. And you can customize it with built-in themes like Tron, Retro, and Ocean. You want more? There are plugins you can add like the Facebook …

 Mojo Masks is a smart little app that reads a users face and applies a mask to it. Masks look a bit more like greasepaint, which is not to say they don’t work, it’s to say that they are so perfectly applied they look painted onto your skin. The result, for example, is a cat face, vampire face or Mardi Gras mask that moves with your face, smiling, frowning snarling with your every expression as if painted there. It couldn’t be easier to …

 I made it rain on my dog. Not literally, of course. But figuratively. I did it by downloading the Jimmy John's Sandwich Cannon app, snapping a picture of my unsuspecting dog, and then pointing a cannon filled with money at him. The result was magical and hilarious. While I preferred to shoot money at my subjects, there was also the option to shoot many of the sandwich chain's famous sandwiches. It's a fun app that lets you kill a few minutes while planting …

More than half of people show up at Super Bowl parties for something other than the Super Bowl. Chevy realized this and created an app that those people could enjoy during their Super Bowl party. The Game Time app, once downloaded, provided a unique license plate number for users. If the user spotted the license plate in a Chevy ad, then they won the car. Users also answered trivia questions about the game and ads to score more …