Tag: FAX

The upcoming version of Canon's document management system, Uniflow 5, will have a keyword-based security system. A user will not be able print, scan, copy or fax any document that contains a banned word. Uniflow (or 'uniFLOW'), which is only available on very high-end (and expensive) Canon products, is a management suite used by large businesses -- such as law firms -- that need to keep track ...

If you still regularly encounter documents that need to be filled out, signed and -- ugh! -- faxed, get ready for some good news. A new iPhone app called Zosh lets you apply your signature to all manner of documents, and send them off without the use of outmoded '80s tech that should have died alongside of 8-tracks and Betamax. If you detect a hint of anger in my tone, it's because I frickin' ...

It's not very often that I have to send a fax anymore. Usually a scanned PDF will do. But every now and again you need to send a document to some employer, government agency, or other institution and only a fax will do. But what do you do if you don't have a fax machine? For years, my default solution has been to use FaxZero, a web site that lets you upload short PDF or DOC files to send to a ...

PamFax is a plugin for Skype from the same people who make Pamela, an application that lets you record Skype conversations. As you may have guessed from the name, PamFax lets you send documents to fax machines using Skype. The company recently released PamFax 2.0, which adds a ton of exciting new features including support for Macs, the ability to receive faxes from 27 countries in addition to ...

We rarely run into situations where we absolutely have to send a fax these days. Most of the time, a PDF will do. But if you need to send a document to someone whose only means of communication with the outside world is a fax machine, you can still sign and send the contract necessary to help that nice Nigerian fellow's funds out of the bank account they're stuck in. Drop.io is a file sharing ...

PamFax, the Skype add-on we told you about a few months ago that lets you use Skype to send documents to fax machines has come out of beta. While in beta, the service was unavailable to US customers, but now that it has officially launched PamFax makes it easy to choose a Word or PDF document from your desktop and send it to any fax line in the world. The application has a few other nifty new ...

For most day to day purposes, you can pretty much replace your telephone line with a PC-based VoIP solution like Skype. You can make computer to computer calls for free. And for an annual fee or a relatively low rate per minute, you can make calls to telephone lines from your PC. But up until now you had to hang on to your telephone line if you needed to send and receive faxes. Well, sort of. ...

Every once and a while we have the need to fax things. It seems rare these days, but there is always that one instance every few months or so when we have to run around to copy shops looking for a fax machine. Not anymore. Google Operating System found a free service called TPC Fax that lets you send faxes to major cities by email. To send a fax, you send an email to an email address formatted ...

ScanR is an interesting service that lets you turn your camera phone into a "scanner." Basically you snap a shot of a document or whiteboard with your 1MP-or-better camera phone and e-mail it to ScanR, whereupon they'll send you a cleaned up, tagged version of the image as a PDF or a fax. The examples on the ScanR web site are pretty impressive, and if the fax option works well it might ...