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	<title>Lifehacker Australia &#187; power</title>
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		<title>Switchwise Electricity Comparisons Now Australia-Wide</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/switchwise-electricity-comparisons-now-australia-wide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electricity bill price comparison site Switchwise  has expanded from Victoria to cover the whole of Australia. Enter your postcode and details of your current area you&#8217;ll see a range of power plans for your area, including options for green power. Switchwise is free to use (and certainly beats signing up with the pushy next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switch Power Management Plans With A Hotkey</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/switch-power-management-plans-with-a-hotkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The How-To Geek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to quickly switch from High Performance to Power Saver mode to save some battery life? With a quick command line in a shortcut, you can do it with a keystroke.
Over at the How-To Geek site (my home away from Lifehacker), forum member Scott shares the quick-and-dirty method to create a shortcut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/top-10-battery-hacks-tips-and-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gadgets you love don&#8217;t always love you back&#8212;at least when it comes to battery life. But you can get more from your laptop, your iPod, your phone, and other devices with these 10 techniques.
Photo by conskeptical.
10. Turn C batteries into Ds with quarters
 Only a few things ever need D batteries, but who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Phones To Get Universal Charger</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/02/mobile_phones_to_get_universal_charger-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/02/mobile_phones_to_get_universal_charger-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major mobile phone makers and carriers have signed on to support a universal, Micro-USB-powered charger. A rare good move for the environment and users. What other devices would you like to see go one-size-fits-all? via [PC World]


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		<title>USB 3.0 Allows Stone-Dead Devices To Be Recharged</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/01/usb_30_allows_stone-dead_devices_to_be_recharged/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/01/usb_30_allows_stone-dead_devices_to_be_recharged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[au]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the discussion to date of the forthcoming USB 3.0 standard has centred around its much higher speeds. As the USB Forum itself likes to point out, a 25GB HD movie file could be copied in 70 seconds with USB 3.0 (versus an estimated 14 minutes on the current USB 2.0 standard). However, there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Does Your Notebook&#8217;s Power Really Go?</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/01/where_does_your_notebooks_power_really_go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/01/where_does_your_notebooks_power_really_go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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A post on Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 7 blog offers some interesting insight into how power consumption works on a current notebook. As the graph shows, your display consumes almost half of the total power, with the combined efforts of the chipset and processor running a close second. Improving those numbers is one of the targets for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Power Management Myths Debunked</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/12/computer_power_management_myths_debunked-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/12/computer_power_management_myths_debunked-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think booting up and shutting down your computer negates the benefits of turning it off to begin with, or that your screensaver is saving you energy, get thee to Ted Samson&#8217;s rundown of five PC power myths and why they&#8217;re wrong. Save yourself and your company some cash and compute more sustainably by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find An Outlet At Your Airport</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/find_an_outlet_at_your_airport-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/find_an_outlet_at_your_airport-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[airports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft evangelist Jeff Sandquist has put together a wiki sharing laptop-charging outlets in airports for the power-deprived and travel-weary. Some are easy-to-miss official stations, while others might require a bit of hubris (and flexibility on floor-sitting) to get to. (At this writing, there&#8217;s no Australian airport info, so there&#8217;s a weekend update project for someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switchwise Helps Pick Cheapest Electricity Provider</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/10/switchwise_helps_pick_cheapest_electricity_provider/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/10/switchwise_helps_pick_cheapest_electricity_provider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;re trying to trim the family budget in lean times, the electricity bill is a good place to start. More sensible use of appliances is always a good approach, but with competition now at least a partial reality, it also pays to work out if you could get a better deal on your existing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game Consoles Raise Your Electricity Bill, Study Shows</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/06/game_consoles_raise_your_electricity_bill_study_shows-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A new study by Australian consumer agency Choice shows that game consoles, especially the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, use significant power even when they&#8217;re not in use.
&#8220;Our tests found that leaving a Playstation 3 on while not in use would cost almost&#8230; five times more than it would take to run a refrigerator [...]]]></description>
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