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Single of the Week

Feisty Londoners Boy Kill Boy make it through the pop-music filter by knowing precisely how to stretch their wandering romantic spirit over nervous, spiky backdrops. Jumpy, immediate and a bit like the offspring of the Smiths and Franz Ferdinand, the Single of the Week, Suzie, is probably your new favorite song, Not.

Discovery Download

Violinist Akiko Suwanai has earned a tremendous amount of praise and respect for her technique and interpretations as both a soloist and recitalist (She’s performed with the Berlin, New York and Los Angelos Philharmonics). A list of her numerous awards can’t compare to listening to her, as our “free” Discovery Download, the Vivace from Bach’s Concerto for 2 Violins, attests.

Ed: The entire alblum is deliteful.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 9 (formerly Flash Player 8.5), the next-generation Flash Player client runtime for the Mac. However, the new version 9 is still not a Universal application. If one wishes to run it on an Intel-based Mac, the Web browser must be forced to run under Rosetta emulation.

According to Adobe, Flash Player 9 achieves up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), which features a Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed.

QuickTime 7.1.2 addresses an issue previewing iDVD projects. This update is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

If you have QuickTime 6 Pro or below, installing any version of QuickTime 7Â will necessitate a new license for QuickTime.

Apple released a new firmware update for the 17″ MacBook Pro. It is available for download via Software Update on 17″ MacBook Pros or from this Apple Web page. According to Apple,

This SMC Firmware Update adjusts fan behavior in the MacBook Pro 17-inch.