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The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Spain’s Biggest Spammer — Securitas Direct

For years we contracted an office security system from Securitas Direct; a complete waste of money, but that’s another story. This one is about Securitas, the spammer.After signing up for the

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Can we jump on a 15 minute call?

About a year ago, somebody must have published a very popular book or article proposing a new sales technique that leads to greater conversion. At least that’s what I presume, because since then

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Educational Absurdity

Last week I tweeted a snippet from my 11 year-old son's corrected math test, in which his answer was incorrectly marked wrong.

By that logic, I suppose 4 isn't a factor of 12.

There were other

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iTunes Match lost all my music (and then I got it all back)

For more than a decade, I’ve been accumulating music and curating playlists in iTunes, all of which has physically been located on the SSD of my MacBook Air. And for the past couple of years, I’ve

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A Two-Context Approach to GTD with OmniFocus

With versions available for both iOS and OS X, OmniFocus is the most powerful task management system intended for individuals on the Apple platform. OmniFocus is highly configurable, allowing the

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RaceSplitter rejected after three years for using a slider control

RaceSplitter is an app that provides “do it yourself” timing of sport events. It’s been on the market for three years and has gone through 13 different Apple-reviewed versions. Yesterday, we were

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Beachbody seem to be stuck in the 1990s

I was excited to find that Beachbody has released the latest in their P90x fitness series, with the new P90 product. I’ve been a P90x enthusiast for years, and would love to continue to compensate

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Rego is a great alternative to Pin Drop

About a month ago, a notice was posted to the Pin Drop blog announcing that the app would be shutting down. Even though we make a competitor app called Rego, it was sad to read this news. There’s

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2014 European Youth Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia

In October this year, we spent 10 days in Batumi, Georgia participating in the 2014 European Youth Chess Championship. The thought of visiting a former Soviet country conjured up images of frozen

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Unable to install OS X Yosemite on Mid-2011 iMac

I’ve been unable to install Yosemite on a mid-2011 iMac. Apple are aware, but so far haven’t been able to help. Here’s the story.

2014-10-17 Update → Although I sent a RADAR bug report, Apple weren’t

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