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Some registered charities get free Microsoft software. Others can get Windows upgrades for £10, and copies of Microsoft Office for £20 or Microsoft Office Professional Plus for £28 (these prices exclude VAT) from TT Exchange. Technology Trust also provides Adobe, Google and other software and advice, as well as running the Microsoft Software Donation Programme for UK charities.Microsoft’s Office 365 Nonprofit scheme provides the Business Premium version to qualifying charities for £1.30 per month. This lets you download full versions of the latest Office programs for PC and Mac. It also includes a 50GB mailbox, a terabyte of cloud storage and other features.Microsoft lists roughly a thousand companies in its database of registered refurbishers – search here for United Kingdom – so you might want to look for a local supplier. IT For Charities has a list of about a hundred suppliers. Alternatively, a quick search will find plenty of options, including Tier1online and Laptops Direct. Prices typically range from £100 to £300, but can be more or less, depending on age and condition. Even a £45 laptop might be an improvement on what you have now.A lot of refurbished laptops are Lenovo ThinkPads, because these were often the first choice for large enterprises buying – and then replacing – thousands of machines at a time. There are also plenty of Dell and HP laptops around, but I’d suggest buying a ThinkPad as they are generally robust and very familiar to refurbishers and repairers.In particular, the ThinkPad X220 is a good choice, if you can get one with an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor and 4GB or 8GB of memory at an affordable price. In 2011, Trusted Reviews described it as “chunky”, which is fair enough, but still gave it 9 out of 10. These machines are as fast as most current laptops, sometimes faster, and they have much better keyboards.

(See Which ThinkPad laptops have the best keyboards?)The ThinkPad T Series and W Series laptops are good alternatives, but even chunkier and less portable than the X Series. There are plenty of T420 and T430 laptops around and they’re decent value. In all cases, check the list at Notebookcheck’s Comparison of Mobile Processors (CPU Benchmarks) and aim for a fast processor. I think you’ll be surprised at the difference.Microsoft has just launched three new Lumia smartphones running Windows 10, including a Lumia 550, which is on pre-order at just £89.99. However, there’s no reason why you can’t use your Apple iPhone. You may think that “mix-and-match brands don’t like each other,” but Microsoft is an exception. It offers dozens of apps for iPhones, iPads and Android devices, including the main Office apps.You mention that you have a problem with iCloud, but you don’t have to use it. You can install apps that will upload your photos to Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Google, or Flickr instead.

You already have OneDrive – it is part of the Microsoft account that you use with Windows 8 – so you could easily use that. Either way, it costs nothing to open another account at Outlook.com, or – for the free terabyte of storage space – at Flickr.When you install OneDrive on your iPhone, you can set it to back up your photos automatically (this also gets you an extra 3GB of storage, unless it’s changed recently). In the Settings menu, make sure that Camera Backup is set to On, and that Photo Downloads is set to Original, not to Resized. If you synchronise OneDrive on your PC, all your mobile phone photos will be copied to your PC, much like Apple’s system. You’ll also be able to access your OneDrive photos online from any PC or Mac, or an Android phone or tablet, via an app or a web browser.Although Apple rarely supports anybody else’s devices, there is actually an iCloud for Windows program. This should automatically copy new photos to your Windows PC, and it will offer you the option to download all your iCloud photos, by year. It’s a very good idea to do this before making any changes to your current system. In fact, don’t just download all your photos, back them up to CD or DVD and/or an external hard drive, and test that your backups work.

Only after you’ve done that should you think about messing with the iCloud settings.Police have used special powers from the counter-terrorism laws in order to seize a laptop that belongs to a journalist from BBC Newsnight, it has emerged.The BBC and Secunder Kermani, who joined the broadcaster’s flagship current affairs programme last year and has reported extensively on UK-born jihadis, were the target of an order officers obtained from a judge under the Terrorism Act.Police sought the order to read communications between Kermani and a man in Syria who had publicly identified himself as a member of Islamic State and who had featured in Newsnight reports.The editor of Newsnight, Ian Katz, said on Wednesday: “While we would not seek to obstruct any police investigation, we are concerned that the use of the Terrorism Act to obtain communication between journalists and sources will make it very difficult for reporters to cover this issue of critical public interest.”Journalists and press freedom campaigners criticised the seizure of the laptop, which is understood to have taken place earlier this year.Jo Glanville, director of the campaign group English PEN, told the Independent there was “hysteria” around terrorism which was greater than in the aftermath of the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks.She added: “If journalists go near something to do with terrorism, the police can use the Terrorism Act [2000] to go after their sources.”

A BBC spokesman said: “Police obtained an order under the Terrorism Act requiring the BBC to hand over communication between a Newsnight journalist and a man in Syria who had publicly identified himself as an IS member. The man had featured in Newsnight reports and was not a confidential source.”Orders obtained under the Terrorism Act leave journalists with little or no comeback when police use them to seek access to material. By contrast, a public interest defence has been used in the past to contest attempts by the police to gain access to information using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.David Miranda, the partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, is preparing to appeal against a ruling that he was lawfully detained at Heathrow airport under counter-terrorism powers.

Three high court judges concluded last year that Miranda’s detention at Heathrow under schedule 7 of the Terrorism 2000 Act in the summer of 2013 was legal, proportionate and did not breach European human rights protections of freedom of expression.The judgment stated that Miranda, a Brazilian national, was stopped in transit between Berlin and Rio after meeting the film-maker Laura Poitras. He had been carrying encrypted files, including an external hard drive containing 58,000 highly classified UK intelligence documents, “in order to assist the journalistic activity of Greenwald”.curious thing about modern computing is that it’s gone almost entirely portable. Tablets and smartphones are growing faster than their laptop counterparts, but the older-fashioned desktop computer still exists and a lot of people still want them.In fact do not be fooled by the hype: the growth may be faster in extremely portable computers but according to figures from International Data Corporation (IDC) the good old PC has returned to growth. Over 10% more PCs were sold in the second quarter of 2014 than the same period in 2013.You can divide desktop computers into two broad categories. One is the all-in-one unit, in which the computer appears to be built into the screen. Many people like the styling and convenience, but critics tend to call them laptops on sticks with very little scope to upgrade without the help of an expert.

Their chunkier counterparts are the more traditional-looking desktop systems that attach to a separate monitor. The advantages can be many, such as the ability to replace only the computer when it has gone wrong, rather than the monitor as well.James Morrish, HP’s chief technologist, UK and Ireland, says sales of desktop computers are still strong. One of the key reasons is the affordability they offer as well as the ergonomics of a larger screen, keyboard and mouse, he explains. The first of those criteria is worth bearing in mind for home workers and people without a dedicated IT budget in their business; you get a lot more computing power for your money with a desktop system, the miniaturisation required for a laptop is something we take for granted but it comes at a premium. If portability or mobility isn’t a buyer’s priority then a desktop is hard to beat, says Morrish. Desktop PCs can provide more flexibility as they are often easier to configure and upgrade, less likely to be stolen or broken and offer a longer lifespan.A quick straw poll of LinkedIn and Twitter users found that a lot of people still like a chunkier computer at their desk. On Twitter, PR manager Craig Coward says he prefers a desktop in the office because of the full-sized display and keyboard without the need to fiddle with USB connections and docking stations. Musician and teacher Darren Pullman was even more precise, saying he used a desktop computer because it had a 27in monitor.Over on LinkedIn, Cathal Morrow says he prefers a laptop, with Matthew Tyler pointing out that he’d never left a desktop computer on a train. Sharon Sweeney highlighted the issue of touch typing, which she says is more difficult on a laptop.As mentioned earlier, though, the form is changing. Morrish says: Style and design are becoming as important for desktops as for other devices such as notebooks and tablets.

However it’s not just looks: size matters as well, says Morrish. Increasingly, smaller form factors such as micro PCs or all-in-one designs are gaining popularity as they reduce the space taken up on the desk and improve the appearance of the workspace. Additionally, enhancements to the user interface are being made with better display technology and the incorporation of touch and gesture recognition. Overall the user experience with desktops can be a very rich and productive one.The design issue has been important for decades but not quite understood until comparatively recently. In the mid-1990s when home computing began to become mainstream, manufacturer Packard Bell started issuing desktop systems with clip-on plastic strips of different colours to match someone’s home décor. The journalists at the launch may have laughed, but appearance is vital now, not only for the home but for reception areas. The Apple iMac appears to be the sleek computing object of choice for many but it’s far from the only one, with Dell’s Inspiron 23 5000 Series Touch coming in as low as £599 on the web and looking very smart, while if you have a keyboard and monitor already, simply opting for the HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Desktop Mini PC will offer change from £450. Apple’s kit is traditionally more expensive and it has just released its budget iMac desktop computer with a slightly slower chip than usual at £899.The cost differentiator in the desktop versus laptop debate is a powerful argument and so is the sheer computing power at a particular price point. There appears to be life in the desktop market yet, and for the home worker who does not need to carry his or her entire office around with them daily, that is a good thing.

One problem with the desktop computer is that you cannot just slip it into your case when you need to remember something. Your work may be behind in the office just when you need it in a meeting.One answer is to put everything into the cloud. Depending on your levels of trust in their security, a service like DropBox, Google Docs, Box, Microsoft Onedrive or one of the many other online storage facilities can ensure you have access wherever there is an internet connection.If you need something portable there are numerous thumb drive and larger drives. The Toshiba STOR.E Canvio attaches to your computer and offers 10 gigabytes of cloud storage so you can access the files even when it is at home and you are not.I’m thinking about getting a laptop for my seven-year-old son and I’m looking for ideas. He’s keen on playing games, but his dad is very wary of it, especially given recent research that has criticised it as a learning tool. I’m hoping that I can interest him in using the computer for things other than shooting games and collecting bananas. I’m also concerned about his safety and security. We have an iMac, which I use professionally, and I’d like to keep him off that too. But I’m not a Mac nut – I also have a Samsung netbook. What would you suggest?

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