Tag: RENTALS

Have you ever been part of a rental where one room is a lot smaller than the others? It's not often you come across an apartment or a house where all the bedrooms are the same size, but how do you split the rent so that it's a fair representation of the place? Split the Rent is a Web app that works out the proportion of the rent each roommate should be paying. It works by asking a series of ...

We told you back in January that the ability to stream Netflix movies via your Nintendo Wii would be coming soon, and now it's here! Netflix customers just started receiving email notifications that their Wii discs are in the mail. The discs are available for free to any Netflix subscriber -- just order them on the site -- and they provide access to the whole Netflix streaming library. ...

Whether you're hoping to save a few bucks on your next excursion or you prefer to blend in with locals, istopover will help you find homeowners with rooms to rent short term so you can skip the hotel. As you'd expect, many of the properties are rented out by people who travel often themselves. $159CDN doesn't seem too shabby for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath duplex overlooking San Francisco's East Bay, ...

As had been widely expected, Apple today announced the availability of video rentals from the iTunes Store. Up until now you could only buy movies and TV shows, with no lower-priced rental option. Competitors like MovieLink, CinemaNow, and Amazon Unbox have been offering rentals for some time now, but none has become the household name that Apple's iTunes is. Steve Jobs announced the move during ...

The Financial Times is reporting that Apple has struck a deal with Fox to bring video rentals to the iTunes store. While we've been hearing rumors for a while that Apple would start offering a rental option (right now you can either pay to "buy" TV shows or movies or take your business elsewhere), we find the Fox deal a bit puzzling. Why? Because Apple has a strong relationship with Disney, ...

We've been hearing rumors for at least a year that Apple was going to start offering video rentals through the iTunes store. But over the past few months we've seen growing evidence that there's something to this rumor. In September one user noticed that there was a way to report an error with video rentals (even though there was no way to actually rent a movie yet). And now Evan DiBiase has ...