Well happy Hallowe’en TiPb Nation! And Mobile Nations! Wow, what an awesome response to our No Tricks, Just Treats Halloween Costume Contest! The judges worked long and hard going through the 300+ submissions in the, and they have finally narrowed it down and chosen 15 winners! There were so many incredible entries, from funny to scary with everything in between, and all of them were so creative, it was a really hard contest to judge! We appreciate all the pictures that were submitted, and hope that you all had as much fun entering as we did getting to see everyone.

Watch the video above for all the fun and check out the winners — and some of your favorite, and might I say wonderful — ahem! — Mobile Nations staffers below and in our official Flickr Gallery!

Mobile Nations Halloween Costume Contest Winners!

Scariest costume

Cutest kid/family

Coolest pumpkin

Best couple outfit

Biggest fan of their platform

Most creative use of a phone/tablet

Funniest costume

Hottest costume

Best impersonation of a Mobile Nations writer/editor

Most stylish entry

Thanks again to everyone that participated! If you are one of the winners listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Watch your email for your Hallowe’en treat from TiPb Mobile Nations.

NASA employee Mark Rober has come up with a fantastic Halloween costume that uses two iPads to create an amazing effect. He positioned one iPad 2 under his shirt on his front and one on his back. He then cut out two holes in his shirt around the iPads and added some fake blood around the openings.

Now this is the clever part, he setup a FaceTime call between the two iPads. The iPad 2 on his front shows what the iPad 2 on his back is seeing in its camera. This then creates the illusion that you can see right through his gut and out the other side!

Take a look at the elaborate set up in action in the video below. One small problem, the FaceTime call will need an active Wi-Fi connection; if you plan on trying this when you are out tonight, don’t forget your MiFi!

Source: Gizmodo

With Halloween falling on a Monday this year, we know a lot of you will be out this weekend in costume getting your party on. So to celebrate Halloween and the official launch of our new Mobile Nations network branding, we thought we’d have some fun with a cross-site mobile device + costume contest!

What You Need to Do

When you’re out at Halloween parties this weekend or out trick or treating on Monday, get a photo snapped of you in costume holding your smartphone and/or tablet visibly out in hand. Be scary, funny or do a crazy pose. Whatever you want is cool. Have fun with it. For brownie points, load up TiPb in the web browser or throw a TiPb.com wallpaper on. Group photos with friends and co-workers are welcome too. And hey, if you have a mix of phones in the group photo and want to go for extra-awesomeness, you can load up the appropriate Mobile Nations website onto each different type of phone: TiPb.com on iPhones/iPads; AndroidCentral.com on Android devices; PreCentral.net on webOS devices; WPCentral.com on Windows Phone.

Submit Your Photo

With your photo taken, all you need to do is email it in to halloween@mobilenations.com by midnight PST this Monday, October 31st.

How and What You’ll Win

On the morning of November 1st we’ll go through all the photos and pick out a bunch of winners in a variety of categories – scariest costume, funniest costume, sexiest costume, best group photo and more! We’ll put all the winners and other photos received into a video collage and post it up on the blogs Tuesday afternoon.

As for the prizes? Well… it’s Halloween – which means you might get a treat, or this could all be just a nasty trick. But you know us… we like treats. We’re going to keep the treates a surprise though, so take your photo this Halloween, email it in, and stay tuned.

From all of us at Mobile Nations, have a safe and happy Halloween!!

Looking for some last minute ways to get your Halloween gruesome on? To zone out with zombies, lose your head with horsemen, read about vampires that burst ever-so-properly into flame, and otherwise get more monstrous this weekend? Well, since you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you’re covered! From App Store to iTunes Store to iBookstore, and with a hellish dose of Netflix and Amazon thrown in, you’ll never go brain-hungry again.

App Store Halloween apps and games

If you’re looking for app-solutely (sorry!) the best way to have fun and get your iPhone and iPad chills and thrills on this Halloween, check out the apps and games. And don’t just check out the Halloween apps and games either, because a lot of developers large and small and holding sales this weekend as well! Note: Neither Plants vs. Zombies nor Angry Birds Seasons are to be missed!

• App Store Halloween link

iTunes Halloween movies

iTunes is having a sale on Halloween themed-movies, starting at $4.99. We’d recommend Sleepy Hollow, because the heads weren’t found at all…

• iTunes Movies Halloween link

Netflix Halloween movies

If you don’t want to buy or rent individual movies, you can subscribe to Netflix and stream all the Halloween content you want.

• Netflix web link

Apple iBookstore and Amazon Halloween reading

The greatest and Halloween stories all time come from the dank, dusty pages of old books, written and read by candles flickering in the chill, dark wind. Apple’s iBookstore has some on sale for both young and old. Not content with just books, After all, it’s never too early to start Halloween off with a good family scream.

• iBookstore Halloween link

Everything else

Not content with apps or games, movies or books? Amazon has a special Halloween page up with everything you could ever possibly want. Ever. Costumes. Candy. Seriously.

Amazon has a special Halloween page up with everything you could ever possibly want. Ever.

• Amazon Halloween link

Your picks?

Got any other great ways to enjoy your iPhone, iPad touch, and iPad over Halloween? Let us know in the comments!

Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Season HD has been updated for Halloween. In addition to 30 new levels, this update also introduces a new orange bird who’s small size shouldn’t be underestimated.

This game just never gets old.

It was a dark and stormy night… but that won’t stop the Angry Birds! Pursue the pigs through 30 levels filled with pumpkin patches, exploding jack-o-lanterns, and creepy skeletons, lit by a full moon and eerie lantern light. You’ll get some unexpected help from a BRAND NEW BIRD – he starts out small, but don’t let his looks fool you! Complete all the levels to find some special tricks and treats!

• All new orange bird
• 30 bone-chilling levels
• Spooky new achievements

Angry Birds Seasons is available on the iPhone for $0.99 and Angry Birds Season HD is available on the iPad for

[iPhone App Store link] [iPad App Store link]

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked this week, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Ally’s Pick: Angry Birds Halloween

Angry Birds has been a favorite of many for several months now. I know many others are like me and get super excited when they see updates for it in the app store. Imagine my excitement when I saw Angry Birds Halloween!

The concept is the same as the original with a Halloween twist. There’s new achievements to be gained and costumed pigs to defeat. You’ll also notice the addition of a few new birds in this game.

This game is a separate purchase through the app store and will run you $0.99 for around 45 levels of Angry Birds goodness.

[$0.99 - iTunes Link]

Andrew’s Pick: HauntFinder

Want to go to a haunted house this Halloween, but don’t know where to look in order to get the most horrifying experience? Well then, HauntFinder is the app for you! With this single-use app you can find all of the major — and frightful — attractions in your area! The app gives you all of the great haunted houses to visit within a 200 mile radius, and contains reviews and more information straight from HauntedHouse.com!

We’d highly recommend this neat little app for Halloween, especially if you aren’t sure which haunted house you and your group of friends want to hit up after gorging yourself on all the candy you got from Tick-Or-Treating (you can never be too old to still go every year, right?).

[$2.99 - iTunes link]

Brian’s Pick: Doodle Jump

Just in time for Halloween, Doodle Jump has been updated and now has a Halloween level for you to enjoy! Turn Doodle into Doodlestein and navigate your way through zombies, vampires, witches, and other creepy creatures! The update is free for those of you who have had Doodle Jump and they also announced that while you enjoy the new Halloween level they are hard at work at an update for Doodle Jump that will bring Game Center features into their awesomely addictive game!

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

Leanna’s Pick: Sex Offenders Search Lite

We teach our children not to talk to or accept candy from strangers – except on Halloween. Children are encouraged to approach the homes of strangers and ask for candy on this one night of the year, but do you really want your child to knock on any door?

Sex Offenders Search Lite allows you to search for sex offenders by your location. It provides the address, name, and crime committed of the offenders. This could be a welcomed addition to your trick-or-treating outing. You can quickly search the neighborhood for sex offenders and make sure your children do not approach the house of someone who has committed a crime against a child. Of course this doesn’t offer full protection for your children, but it may ease your mind to know that these homes are being avoided.

[Free - iTunes link]

Rene’s Pick: Netflix

Since Halloween is mostly a Canadian and US custom, forgive me for picking Netflix, an app currently available only in those two countries. And, well, Halloween and scary movies were just made for each other. Cream of the crop here is the Apple TV version of Netflix. The interface is so good you just know Apple banned Netflix from the building and built it themselves. The iPhone UI is okay, though the iPad version is basically the website and scarier than any horror movie monster. Let’s fix that Netflix, shall we?

But back to the movies. There’s tons of them for you to enjoy, from classics to fairly recents. You can stream them live to any of the aforementioned devices and — the killer feature — you can start on one, switch to another, and it remembers where you left off and just keeps on playing from there.

So when it’s late, the kids have stopped knocking on the door, the candy has been eaten, the jack o’lanterns have burned down, and everything is dark and quiet, tap on Netflix and queue up a good Halloween fright film. Then another.

[Free + Netflix subscription - iTunes link]

Your pick?

You’re part of the team as well, so jump into the comments and let us know your Halloween pick of the week!

The next edition of the iPad Live podcast comes you on October 31, Halloween, and you know what that means? Costumes! But with so many options to choose from — Georgia as Steve Jobs, Rene as the mythical white iPhone, Chad as Evernote?! — we need a little help deciding just what to wear. If you have a suggestion, send it on to us via Twitter:

• @iChadman
• @GeorgiaTiPb
• @reneritchie

Then tune in live on Sunday to night to see just what we picked!

Halloween is almost upon and what better way to celebrate than a Jack O’Lantern contest! That’s right, get your pumpkins and carving knives ready and make the most amazing TiPb Jack O’Lantern you can make.

Then post a picture of it right in the iPhone Forums.

Can’t get a real pumpkin? Give us your best photoshop. We’ll pick two winners, a really big prize for a real pumpkin carving and a runner-up prize for a cool (or funny/scary!) photoshop.

Contest starts now and ends on Saturday, Oct. 30 at 12pm PT.

So get going!

[Thanks to @JhonnyCrespo for the idea!]

Take some flat panel TV’s, wrap them in iPhony trim, feed them some iPhone screenshots (or video out?) and you have the coolest Halloween costumes this side of Cupertino. Trick or treat indeed!

[MacRumors Forums via TUAW]

Happy Halloween, especially to our younger readers who’ll likely all be dressed up as iPhones or mini-Steve Jobs’.

Ready to get your trick or treat on? Several readers (and vendors!) were kind enough to share in their Halloween iPhone suggestions:

• Courtenay wants us to take a look at BatRest, a Halloween’y iPhone stand.
• Ken says iHalloween – Sound Collection will make for a creepier time.
• Damien offers up Halloween Boxto spook up your iphone.
• Tammy Chan thinks Sonic Vox will make you sound like a nightmare.
• And Serena drops the whole bag of candy, recommending YPMobile, Flashlight, Weatherbug, Photobucket, and Halloween Sound Machine