What advantages does this service provide over bitcoin itself? My suggestion would be to make this very clear, and definitely make sure it is explained on the About page.
This is a cool concept. A couple thoughts: the animated guy with the magnifying glass is actually cool for me; however the yellow highlighted titles are not. I can certainly appreciate why using bootstrap is a simple way to dev out a site - but be careful when steering away from the design decisions made by twitter. They tend to be on point.
"Don't touch the pad on the side" ..... prototype or not, what kind of usability nightmare is that? You put on glasses by grabbing the sides.. The control should be based on your eye movements or something like a watch.
I completely agree - a boycott would never work here. It would have to generate bad PR for Apple - a lot of it. That's when they would look at making changes.
Adobe has become a troll of the software industry. Everyone dealt with their Flash crap for years, Apple/HTML5/etc finally killed it, and now all they have left is the CS suite. As soon as a better crop of graphics apps comes around Adobe is finished.
This is an awesome post! I want to see more of this on HN. There is a mac program called Private Eye that monitors netstat and shows if programs connect to remote addresses. I always run it after downloading a new app so I can see where it's phoning home too
This article tries to pin the culprit here as a Best Buy vending machine problem. His problem is at most a vending machine problem, and really just his own mistake. Why would you buy something from a vending machine that is inside a package you can't see inside?
I have the iPhone version of this app and it is much simpler than typing addresses. Still not a great solution for new addresses, but that may not be solveable with a third party app..