By Graham K. Rogers

We are now up to Day 8 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas app. For those who use the Thai iTunes store, today's gift is Cytus: a popular music game. This does have a number of in-app purchases listed.

There was a rumour on Wednesday evening that the gift might be SoundHound, which had suddenly gone free. I downloaded that anyway and I am glad I did.

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
7. Rayman Jungle Run

The free gift in Canada yesterday (as Tweeted by Rene Ritchie of iMore) was the same as we had here - Rayman Jungle Run.

Out of the free gifts so far here, I have downloaded about 50%: missing the children's games, but enjoying the music, Home Alone 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.