Send You a Fax? Are you serious?

The one bit of technology that’s still around that surprises me is the fax machine. I understand that there are some documents where you say you need a signature, but do you really? Why can’t we have a digital signature really mean something?

With services like eFax, receiving a fax sent to your virtual fax number into your Inbox is very easy. It’s a little hard to find now on eFax’s website, but it’s still there. The other challenge is when you really need to fax something to someone else. Most of the times I’ll end up printing a document (or even scanning something) into my computer as a PDF and just emailing the PDF. Sometimes that’s just not an option and you do need to use the old-school fax function.

Here are a couple of sites that provide you these options. The vast majority of them charge per fax or offer a few free ones then charge for more usage (isn’t that a drug-dealer’s strategy too? Guess there’s another confirmation of why computer workers are called computer "users").

• How to Scan and Fax Documents Online for Free
• FaxZero service
• Five Ways to Send a Free Fax Online
• MyFax
• Online Fax

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