Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Tom Bihn Co-Pilot Bag

For a little more than a year my daily home/office commute bag has been the Tom Bihn 11" MacBook Air Ristretto. This afternoon, I switched to the Tom Bihn Co-Pilot and this article talks about that

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iPad is Disabled

A few weeks ago, as I reported here on the blog I opened my iPad mini and saw, "iPad is disabled".

In this state, the iPad can't be used until it's connected and sync'd with iTunes on its rightful

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Fixed — Daylite can’t connect to server after Mavericks upgrade

I run Daylite Server on an internet-connect Mac mini, and after upgrading to Mavericks (and OS X Mavericks Server) neither Daylite (running on my MacBook Air) nor Daylite Touch (running on my iOS

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My iPad mini seems to have a hardware problem

My iPad mini seems to have a hardware problem. Frequently, when I activate the device by opening its Smart Cover, I find it in one of two states:

State 1: Possessed

In this state, the brightness

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A frustrating experience with the WIRED Magazine app for iPad

This article is about a frustrating experience with the WIRED Magazine iPad app, by Conde Nast.

Background

I have an active subscription to WIRED Magazine on the iPad, valid through July 2014. After a

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FX Photo Studio has neither auto-enhance nor good customer support

In my search for a lightweight app to satisfy my basic photo enhancement needs, I stumbled across FX Photo Studio in the Mac App Store, I wrote the developer—"MacPhun"—to confirm whether the app

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Rego 2.0 decisions and country-specific download and conversion data

Rego 2.0, currently under development at Makalu, is going to represent a complete re-thinking of our popular locations app, and we couldn't be more excited about how it's turning out. But that's the

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Photo management — from Aperture to a file system and Everpix

Update — Since writing this article, Everpix has gone out of business, and I've moved to Apple's iCloud Photo Library ecosystem.


I recently migrated my photo management workflow from one based on

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Calling Gmail technical support (yet another scam story)

My livelihood and many of my hobbies revolve around technology. This past week, after witnessing an unfortunate series of technology problems affecting my Mom, I've been reflecting on how I take for

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Louis Zha and the brand benefits of the word DIPSHIT

A few days ago, I received an email from "Louis Zha", informing me that a company in China by the name of "CQT Intl Ltd" had applied to register Makalu's trademarked regoapp as their own brand, and

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