Rovio has recently updated Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD, adding a new theme and 15 brand new levels. Furthermore, gamers can now search out "collectable jewels" and pop piggies on stalactites.

Monster Soup is a recently released, universal application that's currently available to download for $0.99. In the app, players are presented with a fun, colorful puzzle in which they must rescue the "Soup System" from "a menacing, moon-sized maniac."

BBC iPlayer is in the process of planning its international rollout, but don't get too excited - before the online service hits the USA, it's heading to western Europe, apparently by the end of this year.

Shazam has just announced a brand new feature, which it has incorporated into its premium Shazam Encore application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The feature - called "LyricPlay" - allows users to tag a track and immediately view the song's lyrics in real-time.

Musicon is a recently released application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which allows users to add music albums to their Home screen. Currently, the application is available to download in an ad-supported version for free, in the App Store.

Twitterrific for Twitter has just been updated, and a variety of new features, improvements and fixes have been added to the application.

Adobe's three Photoshop iPad apps - Eazel, Color Lava and Nav - have recently received a price reduction, and now each application can be downloaded for $3 or less.

Earlier today, TechCrunch managed to get its paws on around 50 megabytes of pictures and documents outlining an upcoming Facebook product – namely, “a new photo sharing app for the iPhone,” which the website admits “looks amazing.”

The popular Google Reader client, Mr. Reader ($3.99, iPad only), has recently received a great update. Now, users of the application can send articles to Readability or a Macintosh computer (via "Send2Mac"), or create a note in Evernote.

Halfbrick Studios has brought us some great iOS games, and the developer's upcoming Machine Gun Jetpack looks like it's going to be no exception. While the game is a while off hitting the App Store, TUAW was able to catch up with Halfbrick at E3, and shared the spoils of its meeting in an article that hit the Web recently.

The popular iPad app, MLB.com At Bat 11, has recently been updated. Now, users of the application can take advantage of a variety of improvements - including a redesigned statistical overlay.

Audiotap is a recently released application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which allows users to stream their iTunes library to a mobile device over Wi-Fi or 3G. Currently the app is available to download for $1.99.

It would appear that BBC iPlayer is about to go international, according to the already-available BBC News application.

The popular iPhone app, Doodle Jump, has recently been updated. Now, in the latest version (2.4) players can take advantage of a multiplayer leaderboard (via Game Center) and "new multiplayer path challenges."

According to a recent report, a Condé Nast spokesperson has recently confirmed that UK print subscribers of GQ will be granted access to the iPad version for free.

The war of words between Apple and Amazon just got nastier. In a new court filling, Apple calls Amazon’s Appstore for Android “inferior," according to Computerworld.

Gameloft has recently announced Let’s Golf 3 – the third iOS application in the publisher’s popular “Let’s Golf” series.

The popular iPhone application, Plants vs. Zombies ($2.99), has recently been updated. Now, fans of the application can enjoy a variety of new features, including a "Zen Garden," mini-games and brand-new achievements.

In a short-but-sweet video trailer that has recently hit the Web, Electronic Arts has announced the upcoming release of iOS applications: Battlefield 3, FIFA 12, Madden NFL 12 and Need for Speed.

Bing has just announced a brand new feature, which users can access either in the official iPhone app or from "m.bing.com" in Safari for iOS. The feature, called "iPhone Mobile App Discovery," displays iOS applications alongside search results, when users input keywords into Bing's search engine.

A new survey confirms what many of us already knew: we love our apps. In fact, 83 percent of us said we are addicted to them, according to All Things Digital.

Today, we're learning that Apple has altered it's controversial in-app subscription policy.

Syncing your apps, music and iBooks on all your iDevices is a welcome feature that was announced at WWDC on Monday. For this article, I used iOS 5, but all of the steps below will work on iOS 4.x too.