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iPhone Spelling Mistake Blunder

Written on November 21, 2008 by David Appleyard and 13 people have commented

It’s generally taken for granted that a cutting edge company such as Apple has a well oiled system of editors and copywriters who check software releases for errors before they go live. Unfortunately, it seems that the system has broken down with the latest iPhone software release.
Apple has written the Categories menu on the new [...]

Words that Leopard’s spellchecker chokes on

Written on July 10, 2008 by Nick Mediati and 24 people have commented

We trust spellcheckers to be right, right? We expect that the spellchecker will yield an accurate correction, or at the least, real words. Oddly enough, though, I’ve stumbled upon a few misspellings that cause Leopard’s built-in spellchecker to throw up some amusing–though incorrect–results (a friend shared one with me; I discovered two of them). Mind [...]