Microsoft shows us what's new in Office for Mac and IE9's typography, Android developers get some anti-piracy options, Verizon smartphones eat more data on average than iPhones, and millions of low-privacy Facebook users are combined into a 2.8 GB directory.
Android Takes A New Approach To Fighting Piracy With Licensing Service
Google is offering developers a method by which their apps can make mandatory pings of Market servers to verify that a paid app was legitimately purchased, rather than pirated. [TechCrunch]Ask HN: Best options for wearable computing? How can I type and walk?
In many of the threads responding to a user's request to become even more cyborg-like, a lot of hackers suggest the best use of walking/biking/driving time is to just think things through. [Hacker News]100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
More than 100 million Facebook users who haven't changed their privacy settings had their publicly available information compiled into a 2.8 GB torrent. You could say it's just another phonebook, or consider it a totally-legal-but-creepy reminder to think about whether you want everything out there. [THINQ.co.uk]IE9's Stunning Text Rendering Quality
An IE9 developer reports on Internet Explorer 9's ability to start a portion of a letter inside a pixel with ClearType enabled, and shows how it makes a difference versus Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. [Mike Swanson's Blog/MSDN Blogs]Office for Mac 2011 Behind-the-Scenes: Conversations, Templates and more!
The Office for Mac 2011 team shows off the Template Gallery, the new Conversation View for email, better Time Machine support, and an improved ribbon. [Mac Mojo]Verizon Smartphones Use More Data Than the iPhone
A study of non-BlackBerry smartphone users on Verizon, set against iPhone usage, showed that the average Android, webOS, or Windows Mobile user pulled down 421 MB of data per month, compared to 338 MB on iPhones. [Gizmodo]To Enhance Flavor, Just Add Water
Food science whiz Harold McGee explains the strange power of water added to cocktails, coffee, and even wine to make drinks actually more fragrant and palatable. [NYTimes.com]