Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Beginning of the end for 9to5 Mac?

For many years I was an avid reader of TUAW, “The Unofficial Apple Weblog”, for my daily dose of Apple-related news. But then something happened. Things changed.

It all began when I noticed that the

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A new version of PDFpenPro is available! Do you want to download it?

This dialog box announces that a new version of PDFPenPro is available for download, and specifically asks me if I want to download it. So which of the three buttons would correspond to, “Yes”?

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Sounds legit

Well-known Bitcoin-India CEO, start-up entrepreneur, actor and Hollywood film producer Sykam Srimannarayana Reddy is offering me $2.97 billion per month on a one-time investment of $3 million.

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My iCloud Photo Library seems to be broken

iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone keeps reminding me that it’s been 10, 20, 30 days since I’ve last uploaded photos. But when I visit the Photos area of the Settings, here what I see:

It’s

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Notes from the Tim Ferriss interview of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Having finished listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast episode in which he interviews Arnold Schwarzenegger, I came away inspired and with a very deep respect for the man I watched in action movies

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How to secure Mac and iOS devices with the Cloak or PIA VPN

A while back, I ran across an article (which for the life of me I can't find now) in which the author meets with a computer hacker at a public location—a Starbucks coffee shop—and demonstrates the

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Why can’t Twitter fix their Mac app?

The Twitter app for Mac OS X appears to be full of bugs, the worst of which, for me, is that the timeline displays tweets for people I’ve muted at Twitter.com.

With Tweetbot for Mac, I used a private

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The unethical business practices of eFax

Some companies can’t be satisfied by simply earning their revenue through the provision of a service. For these companies, a part of their business strategy depends on making it as difficult as

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Another one bites the dust — Picturelife was acquired by StreamNation

Today I received an email from Nate Westheimer, founder of the Picturelife service I use to store, manage and enjoy my photos and videos, announcing that the service had been acquired by StreamNation.

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Be careful when doing business with Virtual Post Mail

On December 26, I requested by email that my account at Virtual Post Mail be closed. (Unsurprisingly, their web interface doesn't provide a way to do this, nor any instructions regarding how to

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