Adobe will announce its Creative Suite 4 (CS4) versions of its popular applications. Adobe will webcast the announcement, if you are interested in viewing the web broadcast you can register here to receive a reminder message on the announcement day. The announcement is scheduled on September 23rd for North America and Europe, for Australia, Singapore and India it is scheduled on September 24th.

Adobe released early beta CS4 versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth in May 2008 excluding Flash and Photoshop. These CS4 versions will support both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows according to Downloadsquad.

I have Dreamweaver CS3 and Photoshop CS3 installed, i am not sure what new features CS4 versions of these applications will bring to users. These applications already have ton of features.

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Google Chrome Portable version is released by a German blogger Caschy, you can download the Portable Google Chrome from his blog, blog is in German, look for a link at the bottom of the post.

This is not truly a portable version, there is no installation in USB device, just download the archive file and extract it to your USB stick, open the folder Portable_chrome and click the “ChromeLoader” to use the browser.

I have tested this on Windows Vista SP1 system, it is working fine. The author tested it on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 and seems to be working well.

Google Chrome was released yesterday with some useful features and i was excited with its features, but with in few hours a security researcher Aviv Raff discovered that Google Chrome is vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw. This vulnerability could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. (via ZDNet)

The flaw is a combination of two vulnerabilities, a flaw in Webkit rendering engine and a Java bug. Using this flaw a malicious hacker can lure chrome user to download an executable, that gets executed with out warning.
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Microsoft Translator team has release a translation not for Windows Live Messenger, using this bot you can translate text from one language to other.
Add mtbot@hotmail.com to your chat list. “You can have one-on-one conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you.” says the Microsoft Research Machine Translation Team Blog.

You can also access windows live messenger on your smartphone to get translation on the fly. The translator bot is localized into all of the languages windows live translator supports. More language support will be added in the feature.
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Google Chrome is available for only Windows XP and Vista, but if you are stuck with Windows 2000 and want to try Google Chrome, use this trick (Thanks to Pratham)

You need to change the user-agent of the browser to download Google Chrome to Win 2K. On Firefox, go to about:config, create a new string entry general.useragent.override and set it to this Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ru; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
(Note: For Windows 2000 systems the unseragent string will have Windows NT 5.0)
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Google Picasa Web Albums now recognizes faces in photos, the new version is live now, you can try the name tags feature here, or go to your picasa page you will see a notification for the same. Along with picasa web albums Picasa 3.0 desktop software also got this feature.

The facial recognition technology is called “name tag” that will help you to quickly label people from your photos. You have to Opt-in to name tag feature to use it, once you are in face recognition technology automatically groups photos containing similar faces. Instead of tagging each photo this technology allows you tag many photos at once.
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Google Chrome released today for Windows XP and Vista, since this is the first release i was not expecting much from the browser, but Google Chrome is awesome. It is fast, looks good and renders web pages perfectly, and all the web pages i visited rendered normally with out any quirks. What else you want from a browser.
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Process Explorer is a freeware from Sysinternals team that can be helpful in finding running processes and debugging in case of system problems. This shows all the running processes and displays all the DLLs loaded. This is a good replacement for the default Windows Task Manager for advanced functionality.

Process Explorer is a light weight utility and is a standalone app, no install necessary. It shows in two window panes, the upper one shows all the running processes, if you click any of the process, it will show the information in the below pane its registry values DLLs running etc. Right click on any process to kill the process or kill process tree or restart the process. If you don’t know about a particular process you can search using right click menu link, it will open search results using Google in your browser window, this feature is helpful to understand the process.
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