{"id":2864,"date":"2011-08-06T02:22:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:25:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:25:57","slug":"snapp-judgments-refraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/snapp-judgments\/snapp-judgments-refraction\/","title":{"rendered":"SnApp Judgments: Refraction"},"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\/08\/promo._V155443630_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2865\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155443630_-300x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155443630_-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155443630_.png 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s free app is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004YEJGEO?ie=UTF8&amp;ref=mas_faad\">Refraction<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=bl_sr_mobile-apps?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=2350149011&amp;field-brandtextbin=Textual%20Indices\">Textual Indices<\/a>, which ordinarily runs for $.99. The game is your standard laser game, where you use mirrors and prisms to get a laser beam to hit its target. I remember playing a similar game way back on my Apple II GS. I think it was called <em>Lazer Maze<\/em>. This one is a few steps <em>past Lazer Maze, <\/em>with options that weren&#8217;t available on the Apple II (and just to be all grumpy old man for a second, how freaky is it that my phone is more powerful than my old desktop), although I am pretty sure I have seen similar apps before. Still, it&#8217;s an enjoyable puzzle game worth playing for a bit.<\/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 Refraction\u00a0by\u00a0Textual Indices, which ordinarily runs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614],"tags":[244,68,916,241,74,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864"}],"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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}