By Graham K. Rogers

A happy new year to all. A few minutes after midnight, I checked my iPhone and the latest gift from Apple was ready to download. With the first day of the New Year, we have gift number 7 from Apple's 12 Days of Christmas app. For those who use the Thai iTunes store, today's gift is Rayman Jungle Run from Ubisoft: best of App Store for 2012.

So far we have had:

1. Tunes from Justin Timberlake, live at the iTunes Festival in London
2. A game called Tiny Thief
3. A great app in Halftone 2
4. Toca House - a children's game
5. Home Alone - the movie
6. An EP of tunes from Joey Yung

The free gift in Canada yesterday was New Years Eve Mix by Avicii

Out of the free gifts so far here, I have downloaded about 50%: missing the children's games, but enjoying the music, the movie and of course the Halftone 2 app.

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.