Repair Stories The Right Tools: Two Nano Battery Replacements Trevor Bugera submitted a story this week about fixing two iPods—his wife's Mini and her friend's Nano. Neither iPod would hold a charge, and the Mini recently started showing the… March 11, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories It’s Alive! Two Broken iBooks Become One Working Computer When Juan Ordonez's elementary-school-aged daughter started clamoring for a computer, he had an idea. Rather than buy her a brand new laptop and pay for all kinds of fancy capabilities… March 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers Women in Computers: Don’t You Know that Grandma’s the Fix-It Girl? Jodi Spangler has worked a lot of interesting jobs. She climbed telephone poles for a while in Michigan (until she fell off a pole from twelve feet in the air).… March 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Recycling Where 4,000,000 Cell Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected When you donate a phone to Cell Phones for Soldiers, or Sprint Project Connect, or The March of Dimes, it will end up at the Recellular warehouse. I sat down… March 8, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Tools iMac 21.5″ and 27″ Dual Hard Drive Kits! Our most-recent iMac 21.5" teardown revealed an interesting tidbit: unused mounting points that were curiously in the shape of a 2.5" hard drive. After a bit of investigating, we found… March 6, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Tools Secondhand Tools: Dozens of Drills At the Lajpat Rai electronics market in Delhi, secondhand tools wait for customers. The drills are so artfully displayed—I wonder how much packaging material it would save if Home Depot… March 4, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
E-Waste Necessary Electronics Accessories Right outside the Ghana electronics scrapyard Agbogbloshie, our car was approached by a young man selling refurbished TV remotes. This is a side of Agbogbloshie you don't see as often… March 3, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Contests Guess that Mystery Machine—Now with a Prize! Do you know what this is? Tell me in the comments. I’ll update Monday morning with the correct answer—the first person to guess correctly gets a $20 iFixit gift certificate!… March 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Site News Turn Your Broken Device into an Online Repair Manual We're trying hard to keep devices out of landfills by creating awesome repair manuals for them. And we've even enlisted the help from college students throughout the country to create… February 29, 2012 by Miro Djuric
E-Waste See Inside a Canadian E-Waste Recycling Facility Servers were the size of refrigerators and a single CPU chip had about $300 of gold when Montreal-based electronics recycling company FCM Recycling started harvesting precious metals from computers' circuit… February 29, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
