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Hi, I'm Martijn Vreugde this is a collection of my rambling thoughts on modern media, inspirational design and... well pretty much anything I found interesting enough to share with you fine upstanding folks of the internet.

Photoshop comes to the iPad

Photoshop maker Adobe Systems, Inc., released a long-expected iPad companion aptly named “Photoshop Touch.” The Android version demonstrated at Maxx earlier this year and released shortly afterwards.

The first in a series of six touch-optimized apps (the other five are Collage, Debut, Ideas, Kuler and Proto), it supports Photoshop layers—arguably the basic and most-oft used Photoshop feature. With simple finger gestures, users can combine multiple photos into layered images, make popular edits, and apply professional effects. It also provides advanced selection tools and adjustments.

According to Adobe’s website, the tablet-exclusive Scribble Selection Tool lets you extract objects in an image by simply scribbling on what to keep and then what to remove. With Refine Edge technology from Adobe Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges, such as hair, are easily captured when making selections. Photoshop Touch also plays nice with Creative Cloud—a brand new paid cloud storage service from Adobe for seamless sync of your Photoshop files between desktop and iPad.

Social sharing is also supported through Facebook or email. You can also import images from Facebook, Google Image Search, and your iPad’s camera roll. Photoshop Touch works only on iPad 2 and requires iOS 5. The app is a $9.99 download from the App Store. Photoshop Touch became available on Android devices last November.

Just signed away my first born to FNB

So I just signed up to the new Smart phone/device promotion with FNB because well to be frank, Standard Bank was driving me crazy with their ineptitude. Standard bank just last month locked all my accounts and didn’t even notify me, even though they have my Cell phone number, Home Number, Work Number and Email address, because… wait for it…. hide the children…. are you sitting down…. the colosally suspicious transaction of R8.14 THE HORROR!!!!!! Now just to clarify, that’s R8 and 14 cents I’ve tiped car guards more money. Thankfully I wasn’t on any dates at the time otherwise I’d be in the back doing dishes while the girl sent sms’s to her ex.

Now FNB over the last few years has really shown they are moving with the times. Investing in IT and helping the users/customers, they even have an iPhone App people!! I mean come on! Their Online banking system is slick and jacked up (Don’t ask about Standard Banks online presence, it’s just so sad, and I don’t wanna kick them when they are down) you can even do Forex online.

Now mention must be made to the event of the year, that they hold every year… the legendary… the epic… FNB Whisky Live Festival which to be honest I look forward to more than my birthday.

How it has taken me this long…. I just don’t know….

So, soon my new toy will arrive, don’t look at me like that, I chose them for their banking practices not the new gadget…honest…I swear….Oh shut up.