{"id":797,"date":"2011-06-28T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T08:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2011-08-04T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T22:52:07","slug":"snapp-judgments-apparatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/snapp-judgments-apparatus\/","title":{"rendered":"SnApp Judgments: Apparatus"},"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&#8217;s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s free app is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004UGDIY0?ie=UTF8&amp;ref=mas_faad\">Apparatus<\/a> by Bithack, which normally comes in at $1.50. It is a physics-based game, the idea of which is to get a blue ball into a basket. Set up your track by moving wooden planks, press the play button, and hope your understanding of gravity is enough to reach your goal.<\/p>\n<p>The basics of the game are simple, but it does get progressively more difficult. It is a rather pretty game to look at, although the 3D perspective can make it hard to properly set up the course. Plus, it fits my criteria of what makes a good mobile game: simple enough I can play it while in line at the bank and not so involved that I can\u2019t put it down when I get to the teller.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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&#8217;s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today&#8217;s free app is\u00a0Apparatus by Bithack, which normally comes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,614],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}