While Adobe produces some exceptionally great software products, Adobe Updater is one of the most intrusive annoying piece of software which comes bundled with all Adobe products like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Creative Suite applications, Adobe Updater launches silently in the background starting the downloads without asking for user permission, adding an hardly noticeable icon in system tray as an notification for the update process running in the background, The resource hogging automatic updater can result in slower system performance and huge ISP bandwidth bills.

Surprisingly, unlike other softwares Adobe does not provides an easy to find update preference setting to disable these automatic updates and requires you to dig deep into update options as discussed earlier in our "How To Disable Annoying Adobe Auto-Update" blog post using Adobe Acrobat Reader to disable the updater.

Exactly six months ago, we blogged about Adobe Photoshop CS4 Download leak on torrent portals, now the wait seems to be over as Adobe will be officially announcing "Adobe Creative Suite 4" on 23 September 2008, CS4 will be available in both 32 and 64-bit versions on Windows allowing access to more memory, but OS X users will have need to wait for 64 bit version.

Adobe will be webcasting the event at adobe.istreamplanet.com, you can register now to receive a reminder message on the announcement day.

If you use Adobe Creative Suite 3 and if it stops working asking you to uninstall and then reinstall the application citing some license issue as shown below:

Don't panic as you won't necessarily need to re-install the application suite as suggested by the error, it could be a simple FLEXNet Licensing Service issue, which can easily be resolved as described next.

Adobe today announced a major update to their Acrobat product to the next version Adobe Acrobat 9.0, currently in beta the final version of the product is scheduled to be released next month, with exciting new features like embedding of third-party applications like flash, video, slides and even maps. One the most exciting new feature is support for embedded forms allowing PDF creators to track and collect data from the users.

Adobe today released beta version of its Adobe Flash Player 10 (code-named Astro), with several new features to help interactive designers and developers create special effects and cinematic Web experiences, Adobe Flash Player 10 now supports 3D effects, custom filters, text layout, and interactive Inverse Kinematics.

Key features of the new Adobe Flash Player 10:

Adobe released their brand new web-based version of popular Photoshop image editor, dubbed Photoshop Express the service is currently labeled as public beta, Users are provided with 2 GB free online storage allowing them to store, edit and share images using a simple and easy to use flash based interface.

Many tech blogs and forums are reporting leak of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Codenamed StoneHenge on torrent sites, After doing some research and reading the contradicting comments this 454.57 MB download seems fake to me, since downloading and installing such thing is illegal, I am unable to verify this myself.

Like me, if you are also annoyed with Adobe auto-updater popping up and freezing the application you can completely disable the feature in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader 8.1, just follow the steps below to disable Adobe updater:

Adobe CS3 users are reporting company's software products silently sending data to a third-party service.

Dan Moren of UneasySilence first posted about the issue on his blog, by using a Mac OS software - Little Snitch, he was able to track Adobe's data snooping.

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