Odds & Ends: Photoshop and A-Dock; QuickTime tip; Obtaining the DVD Player update; SPSS 10.0 and QuickTime 5

Photoshop 6 and A-Dock bug Mark Tuleweit writes: "I cannot drag an alias of a jpg file onto the PhotoShop icon in A-Dock 2.3. It will result in PhotoShop giving me an end of file error. I have reproduced this problem with Photoshop 6.01 several times."

QuickTime tip: launch with Control Strip Craig Hunter writes: "If you drop a QuickTime compatible file on the QuickTime Control Strip Module, it will launch the appropriate QuickTime app. For instance, drag/drop a JPEG and PictureViewer will launch. For a movie or MP3 file, and QuickTime Player will launch. I discovered this with QuickTime 4.1.2 running under Mac OS 9.1. I imagine it works with QuickTime 5 as well." We checked; it does.

Update: Shiro Wilde claims: "Doing so sometimes causes the loss of graphics acceleration leading to slow video. The fix is a restart."

Apple DVD Player 2.4: Software Update confused by firmware? Yannick Rendu writes: "I have used Software Update to update to Apple DVD Player 2.4 on quite a few G4s. There appears to be a relationship between the firmware version and if the Player appears in the control panel. If the G4 does not have the latest firmware, the player can be downloaded from Software Update. The workaround - manually download and run the installer - works fine."

SPSS 10.0 and QuickTime 5 minimum install Donald Nease writes: "SPSS 10.0 users should be aware that if they upgrade their QuickTime to 5.0 they need to avoid the minimum install option. Following a minimum install of QuickTime 5, SPSS will give a notice that QuickTime 4 is not installed or disabled, and fail to load. It seems that SPSS 10.0 looks for the QuickTime 3D extensions, and these are lacking in the minimum install of 5.0."