Last night Apple aired 3 new TV commercials in China. One of them features our photo editor Photogene.

You can watch the whole clip here.

The Photogene hall-of-fame became active with the release of version 2.5, less than two weeks ago.

Since then, over 2,000 photos have been uploaded by Photogene users from all over the world. Some of them are truly magnificent.

A new update of Photogene was released today. We added some really nice features:

- New filters: blur, posterize and b & w, and a whole new user interface for filters selection and manipulation.

- Direct upload to Facebook and Twitter.

- Our very own Hall-Of-Fame where users can upload their masterpieces and rate others’.

iLounge magazine publishes yearly a list of the top 100 iPhone apps. Photogene is proud to be on that list for the 2nd year in a row.

Here is the complete guide and list: http://www.ilounge.com/2010bg

Yesterday, Apple published the attached printed ad in one of Germany’s national newspapers. They are recommending several apps, including our very own Photogene.

Our Photogene app is paired up against the new Photoshop.com iPhone app by Adobe in O’Reilly’s Best iPhone Apps site in an “app smackdown” for best photo editing app. Voting runs till Monday 19/Oct.

Vote here: http://oreillynet.com/pub/pq/246

By the way, make sure to vote for the right candidate (we know where you live).

Ziv Kitaro published this week the first iPhone guide in the hebrew language (Opus publishing). It’s called iPhone 101, and it recommends our app Photogene for in-phone photo editing.

Today we attended the launch event of iLoop, a newly founded nonprofit organization with an ambition to become the official meeting place for Apple developers in Israel.

The idea is to create a cummunity where professional apple developers can meet and share their knowledge and also to create buisiness oppertunities and serve the market place demand for OSX and iPhone applications.

Guest Speakers on the event were:

• Mr. Bob Borchers: General Partner at Opus Capital and former iPhone Senior Director at Apple Inc.
• Mr. Andrew Lacy: Co Founder of Tapulous (maker of TapTap and other social Apps for the iPhone).

Also, an application fair, featuring an iPhone apps contest was announced by ’Pelephone’ who also sponsered the event.

Apple has decided to feature our app Photogene as one for the recommended apps for new users buying an iPhone or iPod Touch.

O’Reilly Media has selected our Photogene app for inclusion in their new book, Best iPhone Apps: A Guide for Discriminating Downloaders, released in July, 2009.

From their press release: