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Christmas is now one week away, and shipping estimates will only become more of an issue for shoppers the closer the holiday gets. That's when e-mail delivery App Store and iTunes Gift Cards come in, perfect to email directly to your friends and family members, or to print out and place inside of a holiday card. There aren't any 15 percent off $100 cards around right now, but there are a few notable discounts offering savings on iTunes credit.

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To start, Amazon is offering $7.50 off of iTunes gift cards worth $50 or more, making the $50 tier the best option for this deal since this is a straight cash discount amount and not a percentage offer. The $50 card will be priced at $42.50 when you enter the code APP750 during checkout.

These cards are sold by trusted Amazon company ACI Gift Cards, LLC, and will be delivered via email within a few minutes after your purchase. Each shopper can only use this coupon code once, so be sure you have the amount you want correctly picked before you place your order.

At Target, you can gain access to the retailer's usual buy one, get one 20 percent off discount this week. This sale is closer to the regular discounts on iTunes gift cards, offering shoppers the chance to get a $100 iTunes gift card for $90. Full savings on this sale can be found below:

• 2x $15 iTunes gift cards = $27, down from $30
• 2x $25 iTunes gift cards = $45, down from $50
• 2x $50 iTunes gift cards = $90, down from $100
• 2x $100 iTunes gift cards = $180, down from $200

Lastly, anyone looking to get extra funds added to their Apple ID could also take advantage of Apple's new promotion that offers customers a 10 percent bonus when adding funds directly to their Apple ID account in the United States. This promo lasts until Thursday, December 20, and the funds you add can be used when shopping on the iTunes Movies and TV store, and pretty much in every other instance that iTunes gift cards are used.

Those interested can add funds to an Apple ID by going to Settings > Your Name > iTunes & App Store and tap your Apple ID > View Apple ID. Sign in if necessary, tap "Add Funds to Apple ID," tap the amount that you want to add, and confirm your selection. There's also a shortcut available at the bottom of the App Store.

As you refill your iTunes account with credit, definitely keep a look out on the Movies and TV storefronts today as Apple has refreshed both with huge holiday sales across genres. These include 2-movie and 3-movie bundles, Disney films, new releases, holiday classics, and more. Below we've listed a few holiday and 4K films on sale, but be sure to head to iTunes on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, or Mac to browse the full sale. Blu-ray.com also has a useful list of everything on sale, with banners that note if anything is a new low price.

Holiday Films - Under $10

4K Films - $4.99 to $9.99

More sales and discounts can be discovered by heading to our full Deals Roundup.

Launch Center Pro, an app that offers quick access shortcuts for everyday tasks, today released a major update that adds quite a bit of new functionality.

Version 3.0 of the app introduces NFC triggers, letting the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max trigger actions using custom NFC stickers. In-app NFC scanning is available for the iPhone 7 and later.

NFC stickers can be purchased within the Launch Center Pro app and through Contrast's website. NFC stickers can be associated with different trigger actions, and will cause an action to launch via a notification when used.

So, for example, you can put a sticker on your nightstand that triggers a shortcut showing your list of alarms, which will then pop up automatically when you place an iPhone XS, XS Max, or XR near it, or you can put a sticker in the car that triggers a message to someone letting them know your ETA.

There are endless options for these NFC stickers for tasks like triggering HomeKit scenes, getting directions to a specific place, starting music or podcasts, and more.

A new advanced scheduling feature in Launch Center Pro 3.0 is designed to let you assign more than one schedule to a single action, and Launch Center Pro actions can now be turned into Siri Shortcuts with Siri support.

New themes have been added to the app, including a "True Black" theme designed for Apple's OLED devices. Alternate app icons have been added so you can choose from various color variations and all past Launch Center Pro icons, and there's an option to import icons from the Shortcuts app.

With the update, Launch Center Pro is free to download, with an in-app subscription and in-app purchases available to unlock full functionality.

Anyone who has paid for Launch Center Pro in the past will be able to continue using the existing paid features sans subscription, but access to the new features in the 3.0 version will require a subscription purchase or one of several other payment options. Launch Center Pro also offers a one-time payment of $29.99 to unlock the 3.0 content ($24.99 for existing users) and individual 3.0 update features can be unlocked for one-time purchase prices starting at $1.99.

Launch Center Pro can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

As of today, Twitter is introducing a new option that will allow iOS users to easily view their tweets in a chronological order, a feature Twitter users have wanted for quite some time.

The chronological feed option can be accessed by tapping on a sparkle-shaped icon at the top right of the Twitter app, which changes the view between latest tweets and the current top tweets option.

Twitter originally used a reverse chronological feed, showing the newest tweets at the top of the app before switching to a timeline that places a selection of top tweets first.

It's been years since Twitter switched to the top tweets timeline style, and many Twitter users have missed being able to view content chronologically.

Twitter says the chronological feed toggle is available on iOS today and will roll out to the web and Android devices soon.

Popular iPhone photo editing app Darkroom is today expanding to the iPad, marking the app's biggest update since its 2015 launch.

Darkroom has been rebuilt from the ground up to add support for the iPad, which means there are app-wide refinements, improvements, and optimizations. The new interface works with all iOS devices in every orientation.

The app now supports Portrait, Portrait-Wide, and Landscape orientations on iOS devices, and it has been optimized to choose the best layout for each device and each size for a consistent editing experience.

On devices where Darkroom is used in landscape orientation, Albums are available at the top level of the library next to photos for quicker album access.

Also new to the landscape layout is a photo strip, making it easier to navigate through the photo library when editing. A long press on the photo strip will also bring up photo actions like copying edits, resetting edits, deleting photos, and more.

Darkroom for iPad is designed to take advantage of all of the iPad's features, ranging from split-screen multitasking to keyboard shortcuts to the larger display.

Along with iPad support, the update also adds a color histogram for visualizing the colors present in an image and how the sliders are interacting with those colors, and there's integration with the Moment Pro camera.

Other improvements include value labels on sliders, tweaks to filter strength adjustments, right to left language support, and undo and redo gestures.

Darkroom for iPad and iPhone can be downloaded from the App Store for free, but in-app purchases are required to unlock the full functionality. [Direct Link]

With the latest Apple Pay promotion you can save $20 on a future purchase from Nike, if you spend $100 or more in the Nike iOS app and pay for your order using Apple Pay.

The offer is valid through December 22, and the promo code for $20 will be delivered within two weeks of your purchase. Apple says that you will then have until January 31, 2019 to redeem the code and afterwards it will expire.

Apple has been increasing its holiday promos for Apple Pay recently, running discounts at numerous stores in December, including Pier 1, Groupon, JanSport, Oakley, Rakuten, and more. These websites and apps will keep up their Apple Pay offers for one more day, expiring on December 19.

Prior to the holiday deals, Apple this year has partnered with companies like Ray-Ban, Postmates, Under Armour, and Panera Bread for its Apple Pay promos. Previous sales have also been themed around major holidays and events, including summer vacations, back to school, Thanksgiving, and now Christmas.

Package thievery has only increased in recent years as more people shop online for large-scale gifts. Unfortunately, sometimes there's not much you can do about it if you don't have an outside camera and alarm system watching your home, and sometimes even that isn't enough. Apple engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober decided to go the extra mile recently to stop rampant package thieving at his house, building a complex glitter bomb and stink bomb trap hidden in the box of Apple's HomePod.

The brain of the trap is a custom printed circuit board with an accelerometer, which checks to see if it's left a set geofenced area of Rober's house when it's been moved. If it has, four included Android smartphones wake up and start recording using their wide-angle lenses, allowing Rober to capture every angle of the package thief's reaction when the top of the HomePod box is removed.