Today is Halloween and the official Android Market is featuring content that fits in well with the holiday. Halloween’s influence on the Amazon Appstore is virtually undetectable, but Amazon is offering a neat app as part of its ongoing Free App A Day promotion. Instead of the normal offering of games and productivity apps, Amazon hasThe Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin up for grabs. It’s designed to be a book for children and it provides a good lesson with a decent amount of interactive options.

Good gravy! Angry Birds for the App Store for iOS devices like the iPhone, iPad and iPods, has passed through 10 million paid downloads. The unbelievably addicting game launched in 2009 and continues to spawn success. The Halloween version recently topped 1 million paid downloads. Adding in unpaid versions and other platforms, the installed base more »

Cellufun, a host of one of the largest communities for mobile gaming, has announced the inclusion of a series of Halloween games and activities, called Hallofun. Using your cell phone, you can decorate your Cellfun homepage, dress up your avatar and trick or treating on your friends’ pages. Additional activities include a costume contest, haunted more »

The leaves are changing colors. Football has become a weekend staple. Pumpkins are seemingly everywhere. It is that time of year again, fall is upon us and with that comes the chance to have some frightening fun. You see offers of great scary gadgets all over the place, but which ones are a treat, and which are just a trick to have you shell out your hard-earned cash? Here you will find a list of five spooktacular gadgets designed to give you the shivers.

Since it is Halloween, Gadgetell is taking a look at some the tech horror stories our writers have experienced. Here is one tale.

This is a true story of my encounter with a monitor of the worst kind. I have always relied on CRTs for two main reason; the first is the consistently good picture quality it provides and the second was that I couldn’t bear to pay for a new one. However, one day it occurred to me that two monitors are better than one, so after investigating my graphics card I borrowed a VGA-to-DVI adapter from a friend (it was a very nice lilac color!).

So, I squeezed two clunky 15″ CRTs onto my desk, the table creaking in protest and that is where the problems started. Firstly, the cable, non detachable, could not reach the PC. Fifteen minutes, later I moved the PC, connected the two monitors up, and switched it on. . . .

Each year we are offered tricks and treats by tech companies. Some products turn out better than we hope and some far worse than we ever imagined. For this Halloween Who’s on Crack, let’s take a look at who has offered more treats than tricks.

As promised, I am not including Motorola in this list, though I think we all know they belong here. With that, I give you my trick or treat list.

See who made my list by following me.

A computer that did little but browse the web and do some mundane tasks? That will never work. Back in 2000, 3Com (remember them?) came out with the computer for people who didn’t want a full-fledged computer. The 3Com Ergo Audrey was the device and it never stood a chance.

Take a look at this piece of engineering. The Audrey had a touch screen, ran its own OS and could sync to Palm Pilots. It even had an IR keyboard so you could type e-mails or URLs easily.

Who was the target audience? Where was this computer intended to go? Find out more after the break.

Since it is Halloween, Gadgetell is taking a look at some the tech horror stories our writers have experienced. Here is one tale.

In my house, we usually built our own computers; we had, at most, two computers that were purchased pre-built. The second computer we built did everything it was supposed to. It connected to the Internet and could be used to write school reports on. Not to mention it handled “Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion” almost perfectly (if you were willing to take away some of the draw distance).

The computer had many hours logged into it, the hard drive was maybe three quarters filled. Oblivion and Civilization IV took care of most of that for me. My brother used it to go online, and my grandmother used it every hour we weren’t there to play her casino games. It had served us well.

That was until the one morning when we awoke to something we were quite used to. . . .

Getting in the Halloween spirit, how about carving a pumpkin, virtually, of course. The carving demonstration is just another cool example of what the Microsoft Surface is capable of doing.

The application is courtesy of Vectorform, who was also responsible for the MSNBC election application, and while this may not be quite as important, it certainly is a lot more fun. The application is called Vect-O’ Lantern, and it does exactly what you would think — it carves your virtual pumpkin.

Continue reading to check out the video and to find out what’s really cool about this app…