{"id":2425,"date":"2011-07-29T02:32:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:25:58","slug":"2425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/2425\/","title":{"rendered":"SnApp Judgments: Star Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today\u2019s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/starchart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2426\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/starchart-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chart\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/starchart-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/starchart.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s free app is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004VSHFXW?ie=UTF8&amp;ref=mas_faad\" target=\"_blank\">Star Chart<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=bl_sr_mobile-apps?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=2350149011&amp;field-brandtextbin=Escapist%20Games%20Limited\">Escapist Games Limited<\/a>\u00a0which usually runs for $2.99. Basically, it&#8217;s a star chart. Kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/skymap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Sky Map<\/a>, which was one of the first apps I ever downloaded on my phone. It was also one of the first apps I didn&#8217;t bother to reload on my phone when I wiped it for an upgrade, because how often do I need to know which constellation is Orion&#8217;s Belt?<\/p>\n<p>That said, if memory serves, it is prettier than Google&#8217;s version. I don&#8217;t know if it is $2.99 prettier, but hey, it&#8217;s free today, go hog wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today\u2019s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today&#8217;s free app is Star Chart\u00a0by\u00a0Escapist Games Limited\u00a0which usually runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,614],"tags":[244,68,241,74,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}