

You can follow her tweets about games and other things here on Twitter or join her in the stream here on Google+. there's more! "Angry Birds Friends" will deliver four brand-new tournament levels each week. That's right, just when you thought you'd played every pig-filled challenge there is. While bragging rights are great and all, real "Angry Birds" addicts will want to keep coming back to see the new levels Rovio has worked up. Meanwhile, you also get a power-up for each tournament level you play, and one for simply participating in the tournament. Win a gold trophy and you get three power-up bundles, a silver trophy gets you two bundles and a bronze trophy gets you one bundle. Groupon, the daily deal service, and Pimp Your Screen, which lets users customize their device with backgrounds and other visual features, were the top apps in the lifestyle category.The game features weekly tournaments in which you'll toss birds at four levels, trying to best your friends' scores. Beat your friends and you'll win trophies, not to mention earn a passel of game-enhancing power-ups. “The volume of downloads that occur in this category is less than one tenth of the other categories,” he said, but he predicts that this category will grow in 2012 as people become more health-conscious and apps “augment the actual device itself with something physical.” But Palli said the category has fewer downloads than others. In the health and fitness category, Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker and Nike+ GPS, an app for tracking runs and workouts, were winners. Camera+, which extends the iPhone’s camera with features like zoom, also made the list. It allows users to take photos, add filters and share them with friends. Instagram, also named Apple’s iPhone app of the year, topped the camera category.

“First it was the Polaroid camera, then it was the in-the-pocket digital camera.
