Apple has released their 12 Days of Christmas app a little early this year. The promotion will run between December 26 and January 6 but Apple hasn’t put any content in there just yet.

You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas app to make it even easier to access your gifts while you’re on the go.

Don’t have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Don’t worry. Come back 26 December to download gifts from your computer.

Falling in line with their 12 Days of Christmas promotion last year, Apple will promote special daily deals on music, apps, books and more for the holidays. You can download the app now from the Portugal and UK App Store, but content won’t start showing up until the promotion begins. If you’re outside of Portugal or the UK and see the app available in the App Store, let us know in the comments!

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The folks at Timeflies have made a unique tribute to the late Steve Jobs for one of their Tuesday songs.

All of this was shot on an iPad 2 and edited using iMovie, recorded, mixed, and mastered on an iMac. The beat was made using samples from OSX and iOS – everything on a Tuesday.

Check it out, below.

Almost all of Steve Jobs‘ appearances, talks, and keynotes are memorable in one way or another. Below are some of those that resonated with us the most over the years, the ones we’ve watched again and again, and the ones we’ve gleaned the most insight from, such as we can, into the mind of the man behind Apple.

Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress: Computers are the bicycles of the mind.

1997 WWDC Q&A

1997 Think different spot, “Here’s to the crazy ones”, narrated by Steve Jobs

2005 Stanford Commencement Address.

2010 Special Event, Steve Jobs introduces the iPad

2010 WWDC Keynote, Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone 4

2011 Special Event, Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2

2011 WWDC Keynote, Steve Jobs’ last.

2003-2010 D: All Things Digital, full videos of Steve Jobs interviews (They don’t allow embeds so click/tap the link and go watch them. They’re extraordinary.)

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Apple has posted three of the videos it used in yesterdays “Let’s Talk iPhone” event to YouTube. The three videos are “Introducing iPhone 4S” which covers the features and benefits of the iPhone 4S, “Introducing Siri on iPhone 4S” which demos the Siri voice assistant features and finally “Introducing iCloud”. The three videos are embedded below for your viewing pleasure.

Source: YouTube

Anthony Agius of MacTalk recently ran the One More Thing Conference down under and has just put up all the video for those of us who couldn’t be there live.

There are videos from iOS developers such as Matt Comi (The Incident), James Cuda (Procreate), Marc Edwards (Sideways, Consume) and other leading developers, who tell their story of planning, developing and successfully selling their iOS apps. All of them are full time indie iOS developers, who make a living off the App Store. It’s a goldmine of info for those wanting to become indie iOS devs!

Check them out via the link below. And while I can’t put my finger on it, that Marc Edwards chap seems awfully familiar…

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Marc Edwards (Bjango) – One More Thing Conference 2011 from One More Thing on Vimeo.

How do you watch videos on your iPhone? When the original iPhone launched — 4 years ago today! — it came with an iPod app that could play iTunes/H.264 MP4 movies and video podcasts, and a last minute YouTube app addition for online videos. Fast forward to today and iOS 5 is set to break the iPod app in two, Videos and Music just like iPod touch and iPad, YouTube can be played in Safari and embedded web views via Google’s web app, and a host of other sites and services now make apps and web apps as well.

There’s Netflix and Hulu, ABC and Global, and BBC and MLB, HBO and Comcast, Ustream and Air Video, and a ton of others.

In addition, since iPhone 3GS, you can now shoot your own videos and watch them in the Camera or Photos app, even Messages and email if other people’s videos are sent your way. And now there’s the iPad with a big, beautiful 9.7-inch screen to enjoy your videos on as well… or even beam them to your Apple TV via AirPlay.

So with so many video options on iPhone and iPad, what do you find yourself using the most?

iOS 5‘s new Music app — that’s right, iPod.app on iPhone is dead, long live Music and Video apps like iPad! — has a nice new info popup feature that makes it much easier to make sure you pick just exactly the track you want to play.

On previous versions of iOS, long names were cut off. That meant, for example, if you wanted to find one of a dozen or more chapters in an audio book, it was a guessing game. (Tap. No, not 9-16. Tap. No, not 20-22. Where’s 25, dagnabit!) Now you just tap and hold and the full information pops up, making it easy to pick the right one.

It works for most fields, track name, artist name, album name, etc. Again, a small addition but a helpful one.

[Thanks A!]

Firemint’s Real Racing 2 for iPhone just went live in the App Store. With 30 licensed cars, 15 person online multiplayer, career mode, and other console quality features it’s another huge leap forward for iPhone gaming. But what if — like me — you don’t drive especially well? What if you need a little inside help, some expert advice on how to beat the game? (And your friends!)

Worry not, Firemint Founder and CEO Rob Murray, Real Racing 2 Producer Chris Nicoll, and Firemint Communications Manager Alex Peters were kind enough to sit down for an interview with us and dish all their secrets. (Okay, maybe not all, but enough tips and tricks to give you an edge!)

This is just a taste mind you. The full interview will be included with our iPhone Live #130 podcast, available later today right here on the blog and via iTunes. Subscribe already!

[$9.99 - iTunes link]

Apple has, with lightning quickness, posted videos from the WWDC sessions online for developers. And here’s the terrific part — they’ve made them available to ALL registered developers, not just those who bought expensive tickets to the event.

Terrific idea. If you’re a developer who couldn’t attend, you’d be crazy not to jump on this.

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AT&T had posted a of YouTube video to help customers transition to Apple’s new iPhone 4 titled AT&T data plans and upgrades for iPhone customers.

It’s fairly straight forward so check it out after the break and let us know if they answered all your questions, and if not, what questions you have left?

YouTube link

We have to say we’re pretty excited about the streaming video possibilities on the iPad. So excited, in fact, that the YouTube app feels pretty much like old hat. Jeremy already took a quick look at Netflix on the iPad and the verdict is that it works and the magic of simply having Netflix streaming on an iPad does much to overcome the fact that what you essentially have here is an app made of up Netflix’s webpage.

ABC Video, however, is much more elegant and is a nicer iPad app. You get a set of tabs at the bottom for viewing video, your video history, and even a schedule of ABC shows. The video looks crisp to my eyes, but I’m especially impressed at how well the app saves my place on the various shows I’ve watched.

A quick video comparison of ABC, Netflix, and the default Videos app, along with a gallery of ABC and Netflix, are after the break!

Apple.com has just dropped the megaton bomb of pre-launch hype — 11 guided-tour videos of iPad software, including Safari, Mail, Photos, Videos, YouTube, iPod, iTunes, iBooks, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and the nuclear option — watch all. (We’re doing that one right now!)

Was Public Enemy wrong — is it time to believe the hype? Watch the videos and let us know!

[Apple via 9to5Mac]

Apple has let iPhone, iPod touch (and Mac) developers know that World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC 2009) Sessions are now available for purchase via developer.apple.com:

Watch Apple engineers deliver in-depth technical information on the technologies that power iPhone OS and Mac OS X from the Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.

In addition to the session videos, you’ll also receive access to the presentation slides and sample code so you can make the most out of each session.

After your purchase, download the videos through ADC on iTunes, then take them with you on your Mac, your iPhone, or your iPod touch to view anytime, anywhere.

Costs are $299 each for iPhone or Mac sessions, or discounted to $499 for both.

See the iPhone session list (PDF link) for info on what’s included.

CNNMoney.com News, Stocks, and Video [free - iTunes link] for iPhone (and iPod touch) is the latest big name entrant into the App Store financial news and media space. Leveraging their brand and resources, it looks like CNNMoney.com’s mobile site while working like an iPhone app. iPhone-likeness aficionados may take a few blinking moments to adjust, but it’s a deliberate design decision that will no doubt appeal to the massive user-base of CNN.com’s existing web services.

TiPb had a chance to test drive CNNMoney, and from a pure content standpoint it’s impressive. When you first launch, you’re greeted with the News dashboard. At the very top is a rotating stock-ticker, then a sampling of latest news, stocks, videos, etc. Users can easily check or uncheck specific content options, and drag them around to re-sequence them in whatever order they prefer. (I immediately put technology news at the top).

The content itself isn’t merely a feed. In an effort to give mobile users the best experience possible, both statistical measures like popularity and hand-picked curation on the part of CNN Money’s editors determine which stories and in what order they’re made available to the iPhone app. Also, stories loaded into the app are cached locally in case you need to go offline (i.e. on an airplane).

The free app is supported by advertising, but when there is no appropriate or available ad, rather than filler or “house ads”, CNN Money cuts users a much-appreciated break and removes the ad space completely.

My Stocks is pre-populated with a few high profile favorites but can be easily customized. Tapping a stock brings up a details and graph view. As is typical with online stock reporting, quotes are delayed roughly 15 min. Once you’ve viewed a stock quote, a new section pops up on your dashboard News tab called Last 3 Quotes, and as the title indicates, it keeps track of your most recently views stocks.

Videos shows thumbnails and a brief description of the story. CNN Money typically produces over a dozen unique video segments a day, and they load quickly and look good on the iPhone.

The Add/Remove tab lets you do the content re-arrangement mentioned previously.

It should be noted that while CNN Money is compatible with iPhone 3.0, and the system-wide Copy functionality works fine, it doesn’t yet support push notification alerts, or automatic HTTP video stream optimization. Hopefully we’ll see these in an update. Along with a good James Earl Jones rendition of “This is CNN”.

Screenshots after the break…