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  • Safari 5.0 and Mac OS 10.6.4 to be announced/released at WWDC?

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    David Winograd
    David Winograd
    06.05.2010

    According to French Apple news site Macgeneration, Safari 5.0 will be released at WWDC. We usually don't post non-verified information, but I think that this might be true since we were sent specific release notes. With the understanding that this is a rumor, albeit a very good one, here's what Safari 5.0 purportedly contains:

  • Zut alors! MacBook announcement doesn't translate well

    by 
    Robert Palmer
    Robert Palmer
    10.15.2008

    Thanks to what appears to be a character encoding problem on a French version of the Apple website, the MacBook announcement -- meant to say "perfectly designed" in French -- came out reading "perfectly dumb" (or as one of our tipsters said, a more vulgar version of "perfectly poopy"). That wasn't the only problem: according to Macenstein, a Macgeneration article noted that the announcements were replete with spelling and grammatical errors. (Link is en français.) The pages have since been updated with better grammar. Unfortunately my decade-old high school French can't tell me what about the grammar is wrong, but hopefully our commenters can let us know by leaving a comment. Thanks, Bertie and Fabrizio!