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The App Store continued to supply some awesome apps for free this week. Pretty soon, home page management is going to become an issue if developers keep providing great apps for free. Here’s this weeks list to help you keep your iPhone or iPod Touch home screens clogged and in dire need of organization.

15 puzzle - Remember that tile sliding game that would split a picture into a bunch of squares, then you’d have to slide them back into place? That’s 15 puzzle. It’s customizable in a number of ways.  You can choose your difficulty by number of puzzle pieces, and you can load your own pics from your device. Simple and fun.

WeDict - Ever find yourself wondering what a word means, perhaps in a book, but don’t have the time to wait for EDGE to load Google and then search for it? Or maybe you’re completely disconnected from the internet? WeDict is a great dictionary for looking up the meanings of words, just as the name implies.

This app really makes me want to have access to Wikipedia and Wiktionary offline in my pocket for free. Developers?

Spinner Prologue - Here’s a great use of the iPhone’s accelerometer. You hold the device vertically and spin it around so that the constantly falling arrow doesn’t touch any walls on its way to the end point. It’s like a maze game on cruise control. It’s pretty fun, and will have everyone around you scratching their head as to why you are spinning your cell phone around in seemingly random ways.

Touch Reflex - OK, I’ll admit, this one sounds really dumb. The whole point of this game is to touch the screen as quickly as possible after the screen changes colors. Do this three times in a row and it averages your response time. If you have ninja-like reflexes, then you might just get your name high up on the online rankings. It sounds pretty dumb, but if you give the game a minute of your time, it will take much more. Its simplicity draws you in. You can almost hear the game taunting, “Really? You’re that slow?”

Dial Zero - I hate calling 1-800 numbers just as much as the next guy, and probably for the same reasons. Computers are great and all, but if you have a problem that needs to be solved, you almost always need a human on the other end of the phone. Dial Zero is a large collection of phone numbers to skip you past all of the junk and straight to a human. Touch the business you want to call, and you should be speaking to a human in the not too distant future; surely much faster than the phone maze through which they want you to find your way.

Sol Free Solitaire - If you thought last week’s Cookie Bonus Free Solitaire was a little lacking, I don’t blame you. Its ad supported game play has nothing on Sol Free Solitaire. By no means is this game perfect, either, but it doesn’t have any ads and its graphics don’t have any gimmicky baked goods involved. This feels more like a card game, and looks more like one, too. The only thing that’s missing is the visual dragging of cards. You tap to select the desired card to move, then tap where you want it to go. It’s entertaining, fun, and, best of all, free.

Klick - The tool to keep you close to Flickr. You can search, find pics that were taken close by, upload your own to your Flickr account, and watch slide shows. The developer of this app just updated this one this week, so you can be sure that more features are in the works. It’s a pretty polished free Flickr app. Give it a try if you love pics and Flickr.

Yes, I do believe Apple is going to have to find another way of organizing apps on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Too bad there wasn’t a way to automatically separate them by type, like they are sorted on the App Store. A simple setting could separate each page either alphabetically, by category, or download date (updated), and a choice of ascending or descending. Just a thought.

Apple? Are you listening?