So Civ V for Mac just dropped last week and I bought it thinking that hey, why don’t I play a little Civ V now and again on my Mac? Sadly, the version made available to the general public apparently does not work a lick and freezes during cinematics. It’s apparently a problem with 10.6.5 and one of the ways to kind of fix it is to hold down command when you start the game to run it in windowed mode. There are also some goofy suggestions to run the PC version under Parallels. But I paid for the Mac version, people. GOSH!

If you’re dealing with a bum battery in your iPhone 3G try backup up and completely restoring the firmware. Early phones were shipping with the 5A345 firmware – you can check it in Settings > General > About > Version – and a restore will dump 5A347 onto the phone. I’m testing this hypothesis now with two iPhones.