We are giving away autographed copies of the new Lifehacker book in our current competition. All you need to do is submit your best tip, trick or Lifehack, and you'll be in the running to win a copy of Upgrade Your Life, autographed by Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani. We're giving away the first lot of books on Friday, so get your entry in pronto!
Check out the original post for details on how to enter, and good luck! :)

Lifehacker Australia is on the lookout for a new Editor!

Who are you?
You might be a software hacker with a yen to spend some time writing helpful how-tos and connecting with a community of lifehacking power users. You might be a technology writer or blogger. You might consider yourself a power user of Windows PCs, Macs or your favourite flavour of Linux. But overall we hope you will be someone who wants to help Lifehacker Australia become a truly great hub for people to get and share computing, productivity and life hacks.

Who are we?
Allure Media is a young and growing blogging empire which publishes Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku and Defamer in Australia. We have an office in Sydney and our Editors work from Sydney and Melbourne.

How do I apply?
Easy! Send an email to: jobs AT alluremedia.com.au. I'd strongly suggest you send in an example or two of stories you've written which you think are Lifehacker-worthy.

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A new group has started in Sydney called Geek Girl Dinners. An offshoot of a group which started in London, the Sydney group organises through a Facebook group and has already held several events.
The group exists to get girl geeks together for technical discussion, a meal and some laughs.
If you are a woman geek you are welcome and encouraged to come along - it makes no difference what kind of a geek you are or how small or large your level of technical knowledge. The intention is to learn & share some technical fu, have fun and connect with other women in IT.
 If you're a guy geeks who has a female geek friend willing to escort you are also welcome to attend.
I noticed that this month's Sydney dinner is already booked out but if you watch the blog or join the Facebook group you can go to the next one.

And for Melbourne girl geeks - well, watch this space. :)

Thanks to the readers who wrote in yesterday to let us know that our comments were borked. We've been having some CMS versus server pain but our techie team has been working hard to get things upgraded, stable and happy and it's looking good now. (Thanks Kaan!)

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of being a guest on G4's Attack of the Show, where I got to talk about what the heck life hacking is and the new Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life. As promised, a video clip of the interview with my pal Chris Hardwick is after the jump.

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