How To Soldering Simplified: A Newbie’s Guide to Through-Hole Soldering Perhaps you’re at the same point in your repair journey as me: I know my way around a screwdriver and spudger, have popped many a cable and swapped my share… July 25, 2024 by Connor Bassolino - iFixit
How To How to Make Your Laptop Last Longer This post was originally published November 2019; it was updated in June 2024. I’ve had laptops I liked, and I’ve had laptops I loved. But my current laptop—a ThinkPad 13 Chromebook—is… June 4, 2024 by Whitson Gordon
What's In Your Toolbox? iPad Rehab’s Microsoldering Mom: What’s In Your Toolbox? This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Today we’re featuring Jessa Jones of iPad Rehab, who is… May 12, 2023 by Gwendalyn Garcia - iFixit
Fixers The Road to Civil Engineering Is Paved with Repair Intentions Repair is everywhere, and so are iFixit Technical Writing Project (iTWP) alumni. Students in the iTWP are a diverse group from across the U.S. and around the world. Our previous… January 19, 2023 by Sarah Westberg - iFixit
Repair Stories Cables: A Pandemic Love Story These last two years made me appreciate some nearly forgotten things. Long dog walks, board game night, reading an actual book: all pleasant rediscoveries in rough times. Maybe the most… April 14, 2022 by Kevin Purdy
What's In Your Toolbox? Computer Clan’s Krazy Ken: What’s In Your Toolbox? This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Today we’re featuring Krazy Ken from Computer Clan, a YouTube channel for… February 24, 2022 by Kevin Purdy
What's In Your Toolbox? Woodbrew’s Dylan & Molly: What’s In Your Toolbox? This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Today we’re featuring Molly and Dylan from Woodbrew, who make DIY… February 11, 2022 by Kevin Purdy
Brain Candy Five Strategies for Finding Out-of-Stock Parts Try as we might, iFixit can’t sell every part for every device that needs fixing, whether due to price, demand, logistics, or some mix of all three. So we sometimes… February 8, 2022 by Kevin Purdy
Fixers Everyone is a Genius Apple made a pretty smart choice (dare I say…genius choice?) when it named its in-store repair service the Genius Bar. The name aims to assure customers their broken device is… January 17, 2022 by Olivia Webb
What It's Like to Fix What It’s Like to Fix: Linotype, Intertype, and Old Presses This is What It’s Like to Fix, an occasional series detailing the different kinds of work, and people, needed to fix the world. When I started work as a newspaper… September 9, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
