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Make Your Own Jewellery Cleaner 
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Jewellery cleaner works great for restoring luster to your precious-metal accessories, and it can even take that awful, funky metal-gone-bad smell off of not-quite-precious objects. But paying for the stuff is surrendering to huge markup. Over at RecipeZaar, one helpful user posts a recipe for homemade jewellery cleaner, using salt, baking soda, dish detergent, water, and aluminium foil. It's s
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Killer Commands for Ubiquity
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
The Tools for Thought blog runs down 15 useful commands you might not have known for Ubiquity, the experimental Firefox extension that acts on your typed requests (which Gina
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Ranking potential baby names by popularity
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
There's plenty of baby naming resources on the Internet, but the majority have a US-centric focus and thus discuss names like Liondrae that with any luck we won't see on Australian shores for a while. One
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IceTV adds Facebook application
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Having recently rolled out an iPhone app, electronic program guide (EPG) provider IceT
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How to plan for an overseas move
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Sun, 31 Aug. 2008
Blogger Mediamum shares the experience of planning and executing a family move from Sydney to Colorado in just
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My Perfect reverse search helps pick the best goods
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
If you're planning on buying something expensive, a typical bout of online research starts with a Google search, a bunch of tabs and an eventual decision-making process. Aussie webapp My Perfect reverses t
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Soup Up Your Homebrew-Hacked Wii
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
You've hacked your Wii to run homebrew apps and play back DVDs without any difficult hardware hacking and now you want to dive into more of your homebrew options
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Make a 5-minute chocolate cake in a mug
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
Got a sudden urge for a slice of cake, but don't want to head out to the local bakery or risk dietary ruin by cooking an entire cake which you know you'll end up gorging on?
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Mozilla Crowns Best Firefox 3 Extensions
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their official Extend Firefox 3 Contest, and they're an impressive crop
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YouTube Podcaster Creates Video Feeds from Searches
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
YouTube Podcaster takes your YouTube video searches and creates RSS feeds of either links or download-able videos from them. In a standard RSS reader, the search results come back as video titles and links, but copy the link to the iTunes feed and you'll get a stream of MP4-formatted
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pptPlex Puts PowerPoint Slides on an Interactive Canvas
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Windows with Office 2007 only: pptPlex, a free Office add-on, makes PowerPoint presentations less of a one-way street and more of a neighbourhood exploration. Afte
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Can your browser history reveal your gender?
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
Here's an interesting twist on browser history: a Web-based calculator which looks at the sites you've visited, weights that against whether those sites have a larger male or female readership, and then mak
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iTunes movie service officially launches in Australia
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
As predicted here some time ago, Apple has officially made movies available in the
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Top 10 How To Videos
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Your crafty older relatives used to have to mail-order their video tutorials or wait for "This Old House" reruns to get their DIY on, but the age of streaming video has been good to those who like to tinker and try out neat tricks. From prying open beer bottles with telephone b
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BigPond ditches DRM for MP3 format
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Telstra's BigPond Music arm has started selling music in unprotected MP3 format, making it a much more appealing rival to the iTunes store than when it was a Windows Media-only shop (which blocked any iPod users for starters). All four major labels have signed up for the store, and tra
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Why Free Public WiFi is everywhere, but shouldn't be trusted
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
I've always been pretty suspicious of the networks labelled 'Free Public Wifi' that seem to spring up whenever I open my notebook in airports, and mildly curious as to why they're so prolific. Sure, I've occasionally tried one when there's no other visibl
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uTorrent Updates to 1.8, Mac Release Looming
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has released its first stable update since January: uTorrent 1.8. The changelog is huge, but the main improvements are better Vista support and IPv6 support (the latter means bet
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Digsby Test Release Slashes Memory Use in Half
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
Windows only: Free multi-network instant messaging application Digsby is testing a new release with significant improvements. The very young IM client quickly found a place among the five best in
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iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Apps You Can't Find in the iTunes Store
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
The iTunes' App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users hundreds of applications to install on their devices, but power users who want functionality above and beyond what Apple's SDK allows still want to
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How to Extend the Life of Fresh Cut Flowers
(unknown author) via Lifehacker Australia on Fri, 08 Aug. 2008
Keep the fresh cut flowers your neighbour or sweetie gave you lively for as long as possible by adding this DIY solution from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden to the water: Mix 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon bleach, and 2 tablespoons lemon or lime juice in a quart of warm water. Hav
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