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updated manually installed apps

Try going to settings/about phone/ system software updates, any updates available will be found.
Just in case anyone else is trying this to update apps, this is nothing to do with updating apps at all. It will search for updates to the phone's firmware.
As for the original question, I don't believe there is a way to update manually installed apps apart from getting an updated apk from the place you got the original one (hopefully legally :D ).
 
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You could try the app 'aTrackDog' which checks for updates of installed apps. There is also an similar app which does the same thing for backed up apps.

Finding and downloading the update once you know there is one is not so simple I suspect.

I did try these briefly but uninstalled them as they were telling me there were updates when the market was saying otherwise. They may work for what you need.
 
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