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		<title>ECOBOT Tracks Your Carbon Footprint</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/ecobot-tracks-your-carbon-footprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hoover</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mac: Wondering what kind of impact your power and fuel consumption have on the environment? ECOBOT helps you figure it out.
ECOBOT is a free, open-source application that calculates how much fuel, paper and power you use during the course of a day to help keep you aware of how you can reduce your carbon footprint. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Efficiency Reports Tune Up Windows 7&#8217;s Energy Use</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/power-efficiency-reports-tune-up-windows-7s-energy-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a handy battery-preserving, energy-saving tool in Windows 7, but it&#8217;s nowhere near the shiny graphics or slick taskbar. Online Tech Tips shows us how to audit our computers&#8217; energy efficiency using a simple command-line tool.
Head to your Start menu, type in cmd, and right-click on the Command Prompt result to &#8220;Run as Administrator.&#8221; From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SetPower Schedules Your Computer&#8217;s Power Management</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/setpower-adjusts-your-computers-power-management-on-a-schedule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/setpower-adjusts-your-computers-power-management-on-a-schedule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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Windows only: Windows ships with some solid power management options, but it misses the mark on one issue: Most of us need different energy-saving schemes at different times of the day. SetPower adjusts your power management settings on a user-specified schedule.
Once you&#8217;ve downloaded and installed SetPower, just fire it up and start scheduling different power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Buzz Vs The Bulge Chart Compares Caffeine To Calories</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/the-buzz-vs-the-bulge-chart-compares-caffeine-to-calories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/the-buzz-vs-the-bulge-chart-compares-caffeine-to-calories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does a small Frappuccino give you enough caffeine to be worth the calories? How long would you have to run to work off an iced latte? David McCandless&#8217; beautiful chart puts all your caffeine concerns in perspective.
McCandless&#8217; chart, posted at his Information is Beautiful blog, puts caffeine on an X axis and calories on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convert A Chest Freezer Into A Super-Efficient Refrigerator</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/convert-a-chest-freezer-into-a-super-efficient-refrigerator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/convert-a-chest-freezer-into-a-super-efficient-refrigerator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[household]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refrigerators are, despite advances in their design, terribly inefficient. Every time you open the door, the cold air comes cascading right out onto the floor. Chest freezers don&#8217;t suffer from this draft effect, and can be converted into super-efficient refrigerators.
How super-efficient? Energy usage with a chest-freezer-turned-fridge is barely 0.1kWh a day. Modern stand-up refrigerators use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MonitorES Updates, Pauses Any Media Player When You Lock Your PC</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/monitores-updates-pauses-any-media-player-when-you-lock-your-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The How-To Geek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[monitors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: Tiny, portable utility MonitorES not only turns off the monitor when you lock your PC, it also pauses almost any media player and even sets your Google and Yahoo IM status to away.
We&#8217;ve written about this utility before, but since then it has updated with support for nearly any media player, added support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MonitorES Pauses Media, Turns Off Monitor When You Lock Your PC</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/monitores-pauses-media-turns-off-monitor-when-you-lock-your-pc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/monitores-pauses-media-turns-off-monitor-when-you-lock-your-pc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The How-To Geek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: Tiny utility MonitorES pauses your media player, turns off your monitor and sets Google Talk to away whenever you lock your PC.
Using the utility is a no-brainer: just start it up and choose whether to start the screensaver or turn off the monitor when you lock the workstation&#8212;the options for pausing media or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build A Greener Charging Station</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/build-a-greener-charging-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/build-a-greener-charging-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most device chargers aren&#8217;t particularly energy efficient. The bulky black boxes slowly suck energy even when you&#8217;re not charging, but this novel charging station ends that waste.
If you&#8217;ve ever unplugged a charging plug for your phone, camera or other small electronics and noticed how warm it was, even without a device attached, you witnessed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blow Your Nose, And Other Ways To Score A Quick Energy Boost</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/change-your-socks-blow-your-nose-and-other-ways-to-score-a-quick-energy-boost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/change-your-socks-blow-your-nose-and-other-ways-to-score-a-quick-energy-boost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have started out the work day with energy to spare, but suddenly it&#8217;s hump day and you&#8217;re probably feeling a tad less inspired. Hit the refresh button with these quick tips.
Photo by -mrsraggle-.
Weblog Zen Habits rounds up 55 energy-boosting tips for getting a little extra spring in your step, including a few in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Windows 7 Tool Troubleshoots Sleep Mode Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/hidden-windows-7-tool-troubleshoots-sleep-mode-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/hidden-windows-7-tool-troubleshoots-sleep-mode-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The How-To Geek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: Ever wonder why your laptop&#8217;s battery seems to die too quickly? The Windows Help blog points out a hidden command-line switch that generates a report with loads of helpful troubleshooting information.
The report lists all of the devices that are causing problems with sleep mode, explains the different power saving modes your computer supports, [...]]]></description>
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