I have never been into technology or gadgets.  My poor long suffering sister and future brother in law are both in IT (I use the phrase "in IT" in the loosest of contexts here as I know they have degrees but as to what they actually do, well, they work with widgets and dongles).  These two often receive phone calls from me telling them that the "thingy" on the screen that takes me to facebook is gone, or that my documents have disappeared, yes, yes, I did press delete, but surely it can't be gone, it must still be in the laundry basked somewhere.  So coming from a very low base, I had to learn a couple of things when we moved to the farm a couple of years ago.  Having always relied heavily on the companies I worked for to provide IT (by this I mean the actual computer) as well as support (like my sister, but less irritated with me because they get paid to help me), I was extremely chuffed with myself when I bought my very first laptop, with legal copies of wor...