Okay, it's getting down to the wire for anyone who waited until the last minute. But thank goodness for beautiful gift certificates, which are always a solution for gift-giving procrastinators. In the gadget world, gift certificates are excellent ways of breathing new life into that iPod or laptop you gave someone last year (not to mention excellent stocking stuffers to go with this year's new gizmos).

Netflix Gift Subscription: Perfect for procrastinators (thanks to a no late fee/unlimited return time policy) and movie buffs (the service carries every DVD ever released), Netflix gift subscriptions start at $5.99 for a one-month subscription with two movies at a time/per month to $215.88 for a 12-month subscription with three movies at a time/unlimited.

Movielink Movie Card: Anybody who travels a lot with their laptop with them would benefit from some Movielink downloads, which are high-quality, first-run copies of films that can be watched on a PC, with no DVDs to carry around or use up the battery (that optical drive can hog power). A mere $20 card can be used for up to 20 movies. If I had my druthers, I'd also recommend a makeshift gift subscription to Vongo, which offers first-run movies to rent, as well as a pretty decent selection of other movies, subscription-style (à la Yahoo! Music Unlimited). Vongo doesn't officially offer gift subscriptions, but it's a great service that even works on portable media centers, so maybe you can just order it for your giftee and make your own card.

iTunes Gift Card/Certificate/Allowance: Usable toward movies ($9.99 a pop), music (99 cents per song), games, or books, these cards will revitalize anyone's new or old iPod instantly. The cards are offered in denominations from $10 to $500 and are available online or at nearly every brick-and-mortar drug store in America. For up-to-the-last-minute gifts—I'm talking Christmas morning—you can also go online to order a gift certificate, which can either be printed out by the gift recipient or by you to give in person. You can also give specific songs or monthly allowances (for kids).

Subscription Service Gift Subscription: I'm crazy about the online music subscription services, which let you listen to over 2 million songs, as well as download them to your desktop and portable, for a monthly subscription fee that's usually around $10 to $15. To be honest, nearly all the services are identical. At the risk of sounding biased, I will say that Yahoo! Music Unlimited is nice if your gift recipient already has a Yahoo! ID, which works pretty seamlessly with the service ($71.88 for a year's subscription). Yahoo! Music also works seamlessly with Cingular music phones. Rhapsody has a great selection, decent playlists, nice editorial, and it's optimized for certain Sandisk Sansa players. Six-month gift subscriptions cost $69.99. I would skip Zune until Microsoft puts out a better player (that people will actually get so that the wireless music-sharing feature is worth it).

Gametap Gift Subscription: Gametap is an online entertainment network that has music and TV shows, but its strong suit is downloadable games. The selection runs the gamut: everything from PC hits (Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell) and arcade classics (Galaga, Pac-Man) to casual and original games (Sam & Max). This is an ideal gift for casual and lifelong gamers. Gift cards are available in one-month ($9.95) to one-year ($83.40) denominations.

Gamefly.com Gift Subscription: Gamefly is essentially Netflix for games. So, instead of movies, you order games (up to two at a time) and keep them as long as you want (no late fees). Like Netflix, Gamefly has pretty much every game "in print" (about 4,000) for every platform, including PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Gift certificates, which can also be e-mailed at the very last minute, run from $21.95 for one month to $263.40 for one year.

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