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		<title>Make Yourself Save Money With Automated Text Messages</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/make-yourself-save-money-with-automated-text-messages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your parents sent you regular SMS messages about your long-term savings goals, you&#8217;d probably save more money, even with the therapy bills. That&#8217;s because economists believe regular, positive reinforcement via mobile phone can actually boost your will to save money.
Four economists teamed up with local banks in the Philippines, Peru and Bolivia, sending regular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optus And Telstra Checking Premium SMS Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/optus-and-telstra-checking-premium-sms-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/optus-and-telstra-checking-premium-sms-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June, the ACCC started cracking down on premium SMS providers (premium in this context usually means &#8216;overpriced&#8217; and &#8216;waste of money&#8217;). Telstra and Optus are now doing their part by funding a service to check if premium SMS providers live up to their claims.
Both Optus and Telstra are paying WMC Global to check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are 5-Cent Texts The Best Deal?</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/are-5-cent-texts-the-best-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/are-5-cent-texts-the-best-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ask the readers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[au]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[saving money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[text messages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=344523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Optus subsidiary Boost Mobile is offering 5-cent texts to any network as part of a prepaid plan. That offer might be appealing to teenagers, but does it really make financial sense?
Picture by Wikimedia Commons
Given the complexity of many mobile plans (which offer, for example, free texts but only to other phones on the same network, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chime Adds Facebook Update Support</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/chime-adds-facebook-update-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/10/chime-adds-facebook-update-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=343258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chime, the service which lets you update your Twitter status via an Australian SMS number, has extended its options so you can also update your Facebook status.
Link your Facebook account to Chime via Facebook Connect and you can send updates directly to Facebook from any SMS-capable phone. If you&#8217;ve signed up for both Facebook and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chime Lets Aussies Update Twitter Via SMS</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/chime-lets-aussies-update-twitter-via-sms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/chime-lets-aussies-update-twitter-via-sms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=342143</guid>
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The lack of SMS integration is a perennial complaint for Australian Twitter users. Chime goes a fair way to solving that problem, letting you update your Twitter status via an Australian phone account.
Register your Twitter account with Chime, text the supplied confirmation pin, and then you can update your Twitter account by sending SMS messages [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>txtctr Counts Characters In iPhone SMS Messages</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/txtctr-counts-characters-in-iphone-sms-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/txtctr-counts-characters-in-iphone-sms-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SMS messages have a 160-character limit, but the iPhone doesn&#8217;t have an on-screen character counter to let you know when you&#8217;re nearing the limit. txtctr is a simple web application to stop you running off at the keyboard.
Application author Tom Dance explained the genesis of the application in an email to Lifehacker:
The iPhone has no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMS My Ride Lets You Warn Other Drivers</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/sms-my-ride-lets-you-warn-other-drivers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/sms-my-ride-lets-you-warn-other-drivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=342110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Need to notify another driver that they&#8217;ve blocked your car in, left their car lights on, or are about to get busted by a parking inspector? SMS My Ride lets you send a text to another driver using only their licence plate number.
Picture by lonelyradio
Last month, we featured Your Lights Are On!, a service which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Use Google Calendar To Send Free SMS</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/use-google-calendar-to-send-free-sms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/use-google-calendar-to-send-free-sms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[au]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[saving money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=339967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Calendar includes an option to send reminders via SMS &#8212; but with a little tweaking, you can use it as a means of getting free SMS messages from your friends and family.
Reader Chris L writes in with this suggestion:
Create a publicly editable calendar, and set SMS notifications for it. A friend simply has to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Your Lights Are On! Sends SMS To Save Your Car Battery</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/your-lights-are-on-sends-sms-to-save-your-car-battery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/your-lights-are-on-sends-sms-to-save-your-car-battery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=339435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Leaving your car lights on overnight is still one of the more reliable ways to kill the battery. Your Lights Are On! lets you notify other drivers if they&#8217;ve failed to switch off the lights via text message.
The no-frills and free service is pretty straightforward. If you see a car with its lights on, you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>IPhone 3.0.1 Update Fixes SMS Vulnerability</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/iphone-301-update-fixes-sms-vulnerability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/iphone-301-update-fixes-sms-vulnerability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple today released the first update to the iPhone 3.0 software to address an SMS vulnerability that threatened the security of your iPhone. From Apple: 
 We appreciate the information provided to us about SMS vulnerabilities which affect several mobile phone platforms. This morning, less than 24 hours after a demonstration of this exploit, we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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