If you’re a graphic or web designer, most of the time you’re working on mundane non-creative things.  But when you do finally get that super creative work order that says “do whatever you heart tells you to do” your mind is free.  It feels good right? Yup. Right until you get to the part where you have to do some image or photo editing.  Sometimes you also have to remove some artifacts from the image or photo.  Well, in Photoshop CS5, you’ll be able to remove things easier with a new feature called “Content Aware.” Watch the video below.

You may now pick your jaw off the floor.

Another week, another tech story and there’s plenty of them to choose from this week so let’s get cracking OK?

First up for your gadget gorging pleasure is the world’s first 4G netbook which the folks over at CNET UK got their mitts on. The Samsung N150 packs your usual netbook fair, nothing really to shake a stick at apart from the LTE modem (that’s LongTermEvolution for those keeping track). Boasting potential speeds of 100Mbps down/50Mbps up, real world tests showed Sammy managing roughly 28Mbps, which to be fair is faster than my home broadband. A lot to get excited about then.

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It’s that time again, time to review some of my cherry picked smaller stories of the week for those that might have missed them. This time round we’ve got an Adobe Flash update that doesn’t suck. OK, sucks a little less. Flash 10.1 beta was unleashed to the willing public with GPU video acceleration for certain Nvidia cards on Windows, but perhaps more importantly reduced CPU usage across all platforms. What does this mean? YouTube that doesn’t make your Mac or PC red-line that’s what. A step in the right direction Adobe, maybe Flash isn’t a lost cause after all. I’ve certainly seen some improvements on my netbook and Mac.

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Adobe has just unleashed a free Photoshop mobile app for the iPhone. Now you could say they’re a bit late to the party of photo editing apps on the iPhone with mainstays like Photogene, Brushes and Layers already filling that space in one form or another. Adobe has one thing going for it above any feature other apps have, however, and that’s the photoshop name. With photoshop a household name (and verb), any app with Photoshop in the title is instantly recognisable, even if you’re not a graphic artist.

Read on to find out how it handles.

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It’s Podcast time again and this episode has been appropriately named, “Gentle Uterus.”  I’ll let you listen to the podcast to figure out why. On this episode we talk about:

• Long Beach Comic Con
• Adobe’s Flash CS5 becoming a tool to create native iPhone Apps
• Tim Schafer’s appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
• Japanese Gaming Industry is going down
• Fake Virginity kits

Links mentioned on the show:

• GameSalad.com
• Project Natal’s Sunglasses guy

Download the Podcast Here