By Graham K. Rogers

The 12 Days of Christmas app that was released on 10 December (updated on 20 Dec) started to deliver its free gifts today as promised. I downloaded it a few days ago. When I opened the app this morning (several hours ahead of the USA of course) my first freebie was shown as a Justin Timberlake single.

When I tapped on the link, the panel showed 4 tunes, rather than one: all live recordings of Timberlake at the iTunes Festival. Two were videos. The tunes were:

• SexyBack (4:37)
• Take Back the Night (5:37)
• True Blood (5 min. video)
• TKO (4:44 video)

The performance of True Blood and TKO have good video quality on the iPhone. I will try these using my Apple TV later.

I wonder what Apple's next gift will be: a good start so far.

Link to 12 Days of Christmas

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.