The personal website of Matt Henderson.
05 November 2014
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 surprised to receive an app-rejection notification related to a minor-maintenance release.
05 November 2014
01 November 2014
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 plenty of room in the location bookmarking space for a couple good apps, and Pin Drop was definitely one of the few we admired.
30 October 2014
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 gray buildings inhabited by equally lifeless, desolate people. The reality, however, was completely and positively different, reminding us once again that pre-conceived beliefs are no substitute for experience.
07 October 2014
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.
01 October 2014
I'm in the process of recovering from a Dropbox disaster, and wanted to document it here in case it may prove useful to others.
22 September 2014
For years, I’ve been accumulating an archive of files at home on an external drive connected to a Mac mini. These are files that I do not expect to need in the future, but at the same time wouldn’t really be happy about losing—for example, snapshots of filesystems of computers I’ve retired, some source media, etc. All in all, the drive contains some 300 GB of data.
04 September 2014
As a Bank of America customer who spends a lot of time outside the United States, I have struggled to confirm my transactions due to (a) defects in the Bank of America SafePass card, and (b) being unable to receive a Bank of America SMS on a foreign phone number. This article describes a solution for getting a US mobile number that’s compatible with Bank of America systems, and that can forward SMS messages to a foreign number. Although originally written in 2014, the solution still works today, in 2020.