Yup, CBS is now streaming a handful of shows on its iPhone app, TV.com.  Got a long airport layover? Why not watch Star Trek or Letterman?   Or wait for your mom to grocery shop in the car with CSI:Miami. The great thing–especially when compared to Joost–is that TV.com works over 3G, so you don’t need to be within range of a WiFi access point.  We’d keep writing, but we’re off to see if we can get The Price is Right.

Tags: 3g, csi, iphone, tv, video, wifi

Yes, you can now run Mac System 7, that lovely innovation that came circa 1991, in all its monochrome glory, on your iPhone. Don’t ask us why. Don’t even ask us how.   Just check it out for yourself.

Tags: emulator, iphone, mac, system 7, wasting time

Textcast is a Mac OS X app that turns your favorite RSS and Atom feeds, web pages, and more into personal podcasts for your iPod or iPhone.  Add a news feed, import from Safari, or copy text into the application, and Textcast will create spoken-word audio files and send them to iTunes for upload on your iPod or iPhone.  You can choose which voice you’d like to use, too.

Add this to the list of fine utilities we’ve got in our iPhone toolbelt.

Tags: apps, max os x, os x, podcast, rss, software, text-to-speech, textcast

Regular exercise is essential for becoming and staying fit. Experts recommend changing your workout routine regularly to keep your body from growing accustomed to the same old routine and to keep things interesting and enjoyable. Personal trainers can be costly though, and attempting a new exercise without assistance can lead to strain or an ineffective workout. iFitness might be the solution to both problems.

iFitness provides images of people performing over 130 exercises, sorted by body region or the exact muscle it targets.  Choose a target, tap on an exercise, and you are presented with a picture of the exercise. Double tap to flip the image and reveal clearly worded instructions on the back.You can add exercises to your custom workout list, and make several workouts for different days of the week.

Easily the handiest feature of this app is the progress tracking. Tap the log icon and easily record your progress. Your data is saved and presented to you in an easy to understand form, and can be sent to your email with just one finger tap. Why waste money on all of those separate “logging apps” that litter iTunes?

Tags: apps, appstore, gym, ifitness, iphone, software, workout

A full-blown 4 GB iPhone for $99?  Unlikely, our sources say.  Over the weekend when rumors broke of an ultracheap iPhone for the proverbial Wal-Mart shopper, we laughed.  Apple’s low-end iPod touch for three times the retail price of an iPhone?  We don’t think so.

However, getting iPhones into Wal-Marts is an important strategic move for Apple, just the same.  There are a lot of folks shopping at Wal-Mart who’ve never been, and will never go, to an Apple store.

Tags: apple, business, iphone, retail, wal-mart, Walmart