Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Nepal Documentary

We watched this interesting documentary about Nepal the other night on the Apple TV. Back in 1998, my wife and I spent two weeks following the same trekking route as covered in this video, from

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What to do about this German customer from hell?

Following is a screenshot of the latest Rego reviews as reported by AppFigures. Pay particular attention to the first one.

This German guy, “wilkay”, bought Rego years ago and immediately gave it a

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A paragon of user interface design

Taking inspiration from microwave ovens and remote control devices of the late 1980s, I present to you ladies and gentlemen the latest in innovative European interface design—the new Spanish parking

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In the hopes that Tom Bihn slightly increases the size of the Co-Pilot bag

A bit more than a year ago, I posted a article on the Dafacto blog about switching from a Tom Bihn Ristretto to Co-Pilot, as my daily carry bag. And during the past year, I have come to love the bag

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Can’t decide what to get her for Valentine’s day?

I was struggling with the question of what to get my wife for Valentine's Day, until this thoughtful email arrived from Seagate. I'm going to capture her heart—with a hard drive.

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You can’t beat the market

So much of the financial services industry’s value proposition resides on the premise that markets can be beaten. With the most talented managers, the best research and cutting edge processes and

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I’m an Anti-Braker

I'm an Anti-Braker

Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I don’t really feel like discussing it, but I want to put my position out there. Please be respectful

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The disconnect between publishers and consumers

Over on Rantbox, I posted a note about 9to5mac killing their full RSS feed, in the same way that TUAW did a while back—which, for me, marked the beginning of TUAW’s decline.

That post prompted the

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Photos for Mac

Great collection of commentary by Michael Tsai on the new Photos for Mac app.

Some time ago, I switched from Aperture to a file-based approach to photo management, automatically uploading first to

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