Best known for its awesome teardowns, the Mac-oriented repair company iFixit is launching a online community devoted to fixing high-tech products, rather than tossing them away. “The world has a problem with rapidly consuming devices and tossing them aside, ignoring long-term environmental impact,” said iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens on the company’s blog

Last week’s bombshell that Apple’s upcoming OS 10.6.2 update dropped support for Atom processors seems to be unfounded. The Atom is the chip of choice in netbook hackintoshes, and many speculated that Apple was trying to kill the hackintosh market. But Stell, the hacker who first sounded the alarm, now says support for Atom is mysteriously back.

Filed under: Gaming , Software , iPhone , iPod touch There’s an exciting announcement at All Tech Related this week that has us saying, “We can’t wait!” ZodTDD, the developer behind GpSPhone (a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch), announced the development of an N64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. Zodttd believes that the current generation iPhone and iPod touch have the graphic CPU horsepower necessary to run those games. “…I can’t promise it will run games top notch just yet, as things are too early to say

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , iPhone Let’s file this under ‘really bad ideas done poorly.’ Sony would like to sell you 1,000 ringtones, sound effects, and comedy voices on a data DVD that’s just oh so ready to import into iTunes. Sony doesn’t seem to offer a comparable product for other cellphones, like maybe the Sony Ericsson brand , so I can only conclude this is a plot by Sony to make iPhone owners look dumb when a call comes in.

Filed under: Video , TUAW Business , TUAW Interview Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many, many TUAW Videos to come. We’ve done lots of video on TUAW, from Macworld Expo coverage to WWDC interviews to fart apps and more . This time we’re trying something a bit different

Filed under: iTunes , Music In a limited run of 30,000 units, Apple Corps Ltd. will be releasing the Beatles’ remastered catalog for your consumption in a green apple USB device.

Folks at ChinaOntrade, the online Chinese wholesaler website, who had earlier successfully leaked iPhone 3GS parts weeks before the actual release and also recently in news for leaking pics of what they claim is the SIM tray of the fourth generation iPhone/iTablet are at it again. The website now claims..

Seems like a no-brainer: Take two different concepts that work great separately, Frankenstein them together and — viola! Instant more amazingness! Except we all know how the Frankenstein story ended. The LiquidAUX story isn’t as ugly as that. But it isn’t pretty either

We’ve reached mid-week and to celebrate, we lead off our top trio of deals with an offer on 15-inch MacBook Pros for $1,594 and a 27-inch 2.66 GHz iMac with AppleCare for $2,198. To mark Apple’s 100,000 available apps, we also feature the latest list of App Store freebies. For details on these and other items

Filed under: Productivity , iPhone If you’re lucky enough to have a Google Wave account, you may be familiar with Waveboard . I started out using Wave via a Fluid SSB , running Wave Growl for Growl notifications and Dock badges. Then I found Waveboard, and it made things smooth enough that I haven’t looked at Wave any other way since.

Filed under: iTunes , Music In an attempt to increase movie sales, Apple is pushing out more alternative content on the iTunes Store. Today, they’ve spruced up their “Music Movies” library and added a landing page to promote upcoming releases. Music Movies are music-themed movies, concerts and documentaries that generally feature exclusive content and behind-the-scenes footage.

Late last week, the iPhone finally made its debut in the world’s largest telecom market amidst a lot of apprehensions and speculation regarding how well it will be received.

Everything about this zombie survival game is highly polished, from the music and effects to the controls. Alive 4-Ever is the king of its genre