ISSUE 23.36 • 2026-09-07 PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Spirit Airlines, an ultra-low-cost carrier that served nearly 90 destinations in the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean, went bankrupt and ceased all flight operations on May 2, 2026. Google, the search giant, won a competitive bidding process and will pay $10 million to buy Spirit’s […]

COMMENTARY By Will Fastie I don’t have a problem embracing change, except for grocery prices. In most cases, my complaints are usually centered on things made worse by changes or on things that should be changed but aren’t. I want stuff to advance, to become better and more helpful. My complaints seem to be rising. […]

FROM THE FORUMS I recently wrote the article Older software to the rescue, which included a note about my having replaced Adobe Acrobat DC with the ten-year-old program PDF Fusion. The forum topic associated with the article received a lot of traffic. Although I mentioned other old software in the article, forum participants homed in […]

When you move from one computer to another, the first thing you have to take stock of is the accessories that go with it.  Case in point: The new Apple silicon-based local AI machine arrived, and I realized that all my USB-C to USB-A adapters were either at home, or they went the wrong way […]

SOFTWARE By Will Fastie Adobe continues to be very annoying, to the extent that I reverted to older software to duck the problem. In the past three weeks, two of my “clients” (of the friends-and-family variety) came to me asking for help. In each case, the problem was Adobe software. Then I finally got fed […]