Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

UI/UX — MONEY Magazine takes a big step backwards in user-experience on the iPad, and so I’ve unsubscribed.

Previously, MONEY Magazine attempted to deliver a version of their magazine for the iPad that reflected an understanding of how text is best read on such devices, and attempted to take advantage of

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The “repaired” zipper on my Tom Bihn Co-Pilot

The main compartment zipper on my Tom Bihn Co-Pilot zipper broke a month or so ago. To avoid the round-trip cost of sending the bag back to the United States from Spain to have Tom Bihn repair it

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Inconsistencies and irritations in Mac OS X Photos

Just wanted to document a number of additional annoyances I've run across in using Photos.app on Mac OS X.

No feedback when violating sharing constraints

I've selected all the photos in an album, and

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Why the Flickr Mac Uploader needs to stop auto-creating albums

Recently, Flickr introduced a Mac Uploader application, promoting the idea that with 1TB of free storage, Mac users could now store a copy of all their photos at Flickr, conveniently and

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Trip to Budapest, Hungary

This past weekend we traveled to Budapest, Hungary to visit the city and to spend some time with Lance's chess coach.

Flying with Wizz Air, we arrived on Wednesday evening around midnight, and caught

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The Box

When I was a child, I had a box in my bedroom that was full of all sorts of bits and bobs—ranging from batteries, to rubber bands to screws, string and discarded wood chips from my grandfather's

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Privacy invasion — Vodafone Spain has become the new NSA

This morning, my colleague surfed over to Daring Fireball on his iPhone, via the Vodafone Spain 4G network. Here's what he saw — a strange red bar appearing at the top of the screen.

Tapping the bar

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Hike on the Vereda de la Estrella, Granada

This past Saturday we traveled to Granada to let the kids participate in the 22nd annual edition of the Acropolis Chess Tournament, and decided to take the opportunity to stay over until Sunday and

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QuickBooks Online and the un-dismissable guide

A while back I switched from using QuickBooks for Mac 2012, to using QuickBooks Online. The online service includes a Mac app, which is little more than an HTML wrapper. As such, it suffers horribly

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Online filing of FBARs (FinCEN Report 114) still requires Adobe Reader

Each year, American citizens, residents and green-card holders are required to report their interests in foreign financial accounts on the FinCEN Report 114 form—more commonly known as the "FBAR

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