iFixit CC-Licenses Over 100 Apple DIY Manuals
Over the years, the tear-down gurus at iFixit have opened up 91 Mac models, 34 iPods and a couple of iPhones to repair what ailed them.
Now, they’ve released the guides in CC-BY-NC-SA license, with the blessing of Lawrence Lessig, who has also delved into a few computers himself thanks to the guides.
The nice thing about the content being CC-licensed is that by following a few rules (attribution, not using the material for commercial gain) you can recover, modify, publish these documents giving them a longer shelf life than the site if necessary — and translators around the world can get to work with non-English versions.
While DIY repairs aren’t for the fainthearted, I’ve used iFixit to transplant a MacBook hard drive and change a first-gen iPod battery, the step-by-step instructions got the job done flawlessly.
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Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco native who has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. You can find her on 
