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		<title>Speccy Gives You Detailed Information About Your Hardware</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/speccy-gives-you-detailed-information-about-your-hardware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Whitson Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: Planning an upgrade soon? Save yourself the web searches for your specs and download Speccy. Speccy does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear that&#8217;s in your computer.
Upon first glance, Speccy seems like something that&#8217;s only attractive to power users, but it can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Waste Policy Promises Simpler PC Recycling</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/national-waste-policy-promises-simpler-pc-recycling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Individual PC manufacturers have offered takeback schemes in the past &#8212; some good, some not so good &#8212; but we haven&#8217;t had any concrete plans for a national scheme to make any PC you purchase easily recyclable. Until now.
Picture by rofanator
At a meeting of the Environment Protection and Heritage Council this week, plans to roll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build A Home Server In A Whisky Bottle</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/build-a-home-server-in-a-whisky-bottle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Rae Trover</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardware]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=344960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Jason Marton was looking for a quieter, hidden home server. So, naturally, he built one into a whisky bottle that blends in with his existing dry bar.

Over at hack weblog MetkuMods Jason Marton explains how he created a personal PC or home server inside of a discarded and (obviously) empty whisky bottle. Although it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build A Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Centre On The Cheap</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-centre-on-the-cheap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-centre-on-the-cheap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[netbooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t find a better media centre than the open-source XBMC, but most people don&#8217;t have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. Here&#8217;s how.
This guide details how to turn a cheapo nettop (think netbook for the desktop) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Reveals A Fancy New &#8220;Magic&#8221; Mouse, Hardware Updates</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/apple-reveals-a-fancy-new-magic-mouse-various-hardware-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/apple-reveals-a-fancy-new-magic-mouse-various-hardware-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple unleashed several hardware updates today in their iMac, MacBook and Mac mini lines, but the most interesting news comes with the release of their new Magic Mouse, a wireless multi-touch mouse.
Straight from Apple:
 The same Multi-Touch technology first introduced on the revolutionary iPhone comes to the mouse. It&#8217;s called Magic Mouse, and it&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build A Killer Windows Home Server From Scratch</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/build-a-killer-windows-home-server-from-scratch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=343416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows Home Server is a fairly easy way to start streaming net content and sharing files between home computers. Maximum PC details the building, installation, and management of a pretty serious Home Server setup, from the ground up.
Hardcore PC geeks will probably just want to skip to the parts list and consider a few upgrades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Indestructible Thumb Drive</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/diy-indestructible-thumb-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/diy-indestructible-thumb-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love carrying handy little thumb drives everywhere we go, but at times they can be delicate little fellows. Blogger Dmitry Brant&#8212;having lost too many thumb drives to his washing machine&#8212;set out to make his thumb drive impervious to harm.
His solution: epoxy.
 At the office where I work, I had found a supply of epoxy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Repair Flowchart Troubleshoots Hardware Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/computer-repair-flowchart-troubleshoots-common-hardware-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/computer-repair-flowchart-troubleshoots-common-hardware-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azadeh Ensha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tech support]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=340589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently showed you a fun (but accurate) tech support cheat sheet courtesy of popular web comic xkcd. If hardware is more your problem, this series of interactive charts can help you troubleshoot some common hardware problems.
The flowcharts are the creation of author Morris Rosenthal. Morris has created detailed, interactive charts for everything from hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netbooks Rapidly Grabbing Notebook Market Share</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/netbooks-rapidly-grabbing-notebook-market-share/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/netbooks-rapidly-grabbing-notebook-market-share/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pcs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s well-recognised that notebook sales are now outstripping desktop PCs, but within the notebook category, netbooks are also claiming an increasing chunk of the market.
According to Gartner&#8217;s just-released Q2 hardware sales figures for Australia, a total of 677,567 notebooks were shipped. Of those, 97,220 were netbooks (or mini-notebooks, to use Gartner&#8217;s own preferred terminology). That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Upgrade Pricing Still Messy</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/windows-7-upgrade-pricing-still-messy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/windows-7-upgrade-pricing-still-messy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
We&#8217;ve complained before about the confusing and overpriced cost for upgrading to Windows 7 if you&#8217;ve purchased a Vista-equipped PC recently. Fujitsu&#8217;s recently-announced pricing provides a clear example of how consumers aren&#8217;t getting much of a deal.
As Nick over at Gizmodo reports, Fujitsu will charge $28.95 to ship Windows 7 upgrade discs to purchasers of [...]]]></description>
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