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Yep – I upgraded to an iPhone 4. No – I haven’t seen any noticeable signal drop when/if I deathgrip the thing. Then again, AT&T’s coverage has always sucked pretty much anywhere so I haven’t been paying too much attention. But I did just download the iPhone 4 Case Program App, tracked down what looks like a nice case to augment or possibly replace my current iFrogz Luxe Lean. For free. Thank you, Mr. Jobs.

And yes, I’m fully aware of how much the post makes me sound like a fanboi…

Looks like Mark “Dumb F***s” Zuckerberg is attempting to save some face (pun intended) on Facebook’s privacy issues as of late. After a month of getting slammed by pretty much every major media outlet and their own users, the powers-that-be at FB are going to be rolling out new privacy controls that should allow you to set them and forget them. Until, of course, they change their privacy settings again. Don’tcha just love being a test subject in a massive open beta project? via Lifehacker:

After a months-long privacy fiasco, Facebook has taken it upon themselves to revamp the privacy settings to make them simpler and quicker to set and forget. While the new settings are definitely easier to use, Facebook has thrown in a few surprises that the privacy-conscious may not be too happy with. Unfortunately—in some ways—with simplicity comes a lack of control, and Facebook has made sure that the control you don’t have is over information that is made public.

Still holding out for social networking alternatives, I tell you…

To coin a phrase from Lifehacker.com, you can choose to completely nuke Google Buzz from your account. Looking at the screenshots via this¬†PCWorld article, I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent FTC complaint filed against Google for the way that the “don’t be evil” search giant handled the rollout of Buzz?

Google has updated Gmail to include a “Buzz” tab, where you can prevent the public from seeing your followers list, remove the Buzz inbox from Gmail, and, as the nuclear option, completely kill your Buzz account

That last link, with the warning sign and red text, completely removes Buzz from your Google Profile, according to its wording. A commenter notes that it might also kill your Google Profile entirely, so be cautious if that’s something you want to keep around.

I’m blocked from Gmail at work and can’t bring up the full desktop version from my iPhone, so I guess I’ll have to wait to do this until later this eve. But there is that note about deleting your Google Profile that will be interesting to watch. I find it interesting that Google is taking a course of action here that will not just bring you back to where you started before Buzz, but actually to a lower level of end-user engagement by deleting profiles. If anything, this privacy debacle has made me take a good look at what I use my Google account for besides email, if not thinking about pulling my personal email from Google entirely – with the full support from my lovely wife who noted that it’s not like I haven’t changed my address a bunch of times recently.

UPDATE: Yup, it works as advertised from what I can tell. No more Buzz and no more Google Profile.