Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Corrupted PreferencePanes Cache

Alex Harper, the author of the nice MenuMeters utility for MacOS X recently helped me solve a nagging problem: Sometimes newly installed PrefsPanes simply wouldn't show up in the System Preferences

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Disconnected!

My thumbs are cramping -- my neck is straining -- my wife is giving me that look but I'm WIRELESSLY BLOGGING FROM THE LIVING ROOM BABY!, with my new Palm Tungsten C. More on this and other

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Congratulations Lance Armstrong!

I've been an avid cyclist, cycling fan and Lance Armstrong fan, since, well, longer than I prefer to remember or state here. So you can bet that for a good portion of every July you'll find me glued

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Apple Address Book Network Integration

My wife and I each have a Macintosh on our home network, yet for the longest time we've been unable to share information such as contact and calendar information.

I've recently been asking around and

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A Model of Usability

The plane arrives late. We wait 45 minutes for the baggage to arrive in the terminal. The airport staff try to place a living room table on the belt, and of course it jams up the whole thing

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Lost Mobile Phone (How it Ended)

I'd nearly forgotten to post how the story with the mobile phone ended. Actually, everything turned out just fine. I arrived at the agreed meeting place at 8:30 p.m., not really knowing what to

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Europe and Italy

My Irish buddy Niall really needs his own blog, because he's feeding me all my content! Have a look at this hilarious comparison of Europe and Italy. ;-)

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Bad Morning

Got up this morning, looking forward to my bike ride, and discovered that our phone line was out...

So, I figured I'd call Telefonica from my mobile, so they can fix it while I'm out enjoying myself

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Excellent Educational Article

Just happened on this very interesting educational article, associated with the use of the Mathematica software.

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Mailsmith 2.0 Released!

Bare Bones Software has released Mailsmith 2.0. Whoo hoo! Integrated support for PGP, Integrated support for SpamSieve, loads, and loads, and loads of improvements and performance enhancements. And

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