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IPhone Halloween Apps: Costumes, Cards, and Carving

Halloween’s only a few days away. So it’s time to get ready with some Halloween-themed iOS apps! In this collection, we’re looking at ways to prepare for the holiday–whether it’s carving a pumpkin, picking a costume, or sending an e-card.

Creepy Costume Pickers

Halloween Costume Generator: We looked at this $1 app from Synthetic Bits in last year’s round-up of Halloween apps. The interface is darker and spookier this time around, and a few of the costume descriptions have been updated, but the basic premise of Halloween Costume Generator remains unchanged. You pick the gender, type of party, and current mood and tap a button; after some creaky sound effects, the app will produce a random costume idea, complete with links to Google Images of your potential costume as well as an appropriate song in the iTunes Store. While there’s a “Kids Party” option in the Type of Party field, the suggestions seem largely geared toward older revelers, but there’s a pleasant playfulness that keeps this app on our list of Halloween favorites.–Philip Michaels

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Devices that don’t exist: the white iPhone, the PlayStation Phone

The least surprising headline of the last 24 hours: “Apple delays white iPhone until next spring.”

Yes, Apple’s white whale–I mean, the white version of its iPhone 4–has fallen behind schedule. Again.

The news, as reported by Reuters last night, represents the third delay of this device since Apple announced it as a variant of the black iPhone 4 in June. Back then, the white and black versions were both set to land in stores at the same time.

But a few weeks later, Apple said the white iPhone wouldn’t ship until the “second half of July.” A month later, the Cupertino, Calif., company pushed the white iPhone’s expected arrival to “later this year.”

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