What is the best softwrae to send faxes and receive?  Free if possible?
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From Bob Rankin Yes, there are a few places online that allow you to send a free fax, no strings attached. You don't need a fax machine, you don't need fax software, you don't have to give anyone your credit card number. My favorite is FaxZero, which lets you send a fax to any fax machine in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or Canada for free. All you need is a computer on the Internet and a valid e-mail address. Faxzero is web-based, so you can access it with a PC, Mac or Linux based computer.\n\nHere's how it works... First visit FaxZero.com and fill out the fax form. Enter your e-mail address and carefully type the Confirmation Code. (This prevents malicious users and automated bots from abusing the system.) Then type the text of your fax (for a quick text-based fax) or attach a file. You can send plain text, PDF, Microsoft Word (DOC), or an Excel spreadsheet (XLS) file. Ready to send? Whack the Send Free Fax Now button!\n\nA confirmation message will then be sent to your e-mail address. Your fax won't be transmitted until you click the link in that message. You'll receive an e-mail confirming that the fax was either delivered, or that it failed for some reason.\n\nFree Internet Faxing... Really?Yes, it's really free. The service is supported by advertising on the cover page of the free faxes you send. That seems like a small "price" to pay for sending a free fax. You don't have to buy a fax machine, fax software, fax supplies, get a fax line, or pay long distance phone charges. And typically the cover page is mostly blank anyway. Why not fill it up with something useful? \n\nAnd you needn't be concerned about getting spammed or scammed if you use FaxZero. Here's the FaxZero privacy policy:\n\nWe hate junk e-mail and junk faxes, and will absolutely not send any unsolicited e-mail or faxes. Users will receive e-mail messages (such as confirmation messages) as part of the process of using the service. If you subscribe to the FaxZero mailing list, we will send occasional news about the service, which may include advertisments for our marketing partners. Your name, company name, e-mail address, and fax number will appear in the "Sender Information" area of the faxes that you send. FaxZero will not share your information, nor information about the people you send faxes to, with marketers or anyone else, unless compelled to do so by court order. \nCan I Send Unlimited Free Faxes?No, the free service provided by FaxZero is limited to 2 faxes per day, and there's a maximum of three pages per fax. If you need to send more than that, you can use the FaxZero Premium service. Sending a premium fax costs $1.79, and there's no ad or FaxZero logo on the cover page, so you may like that for business communications. The number of pages increases from 3 to 10, and there's no 2-fax-per-day limitation.
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Yep, he got it in one, e-fax, http://www.efax.com/\n\nFrom e-fax-\n\nSignup for eFax Free:\n\nWith your eFax Free account, you will get a non-local eFax number to receive faxes in your email (subject to certain limitations as set forth in the Customer Agreement). After you see what eFax Free can do, upgrade to eFax Plus and get all the benefits of a local eFax number, plus the ability to send faxes. To get your eFax Free account, please complete the form below.\n\nSo recieving efaxes is free but you can't send for free, I don't know of any free service that will allow you to do both.
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www.winfax.com has a free service.
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Any fax machine works with VOIP. You can even use a free fax via email from jfax or efax. I have VOIP using Skype and Meritcall at meritcall.com and I have a fax machine that I use to fax people with and I use Meritcall. But to receive, I use my jfax free version and I print them myself.\n\nIt's hard to use Skype with fax machine because you have to get a Port Converter for Skype. Which means you have to buy a hardware that will enable your usb to phone line.  Which cost about $30. Search for USB Skype in Google or Yahoo.\n\nI bought my fax machine in '89, and it's still being used, then migrated to VOIP 4 years ago, and it still works.
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http://www.myfax.com/\nhttp://www-faxtoemail.com/\nhttp://home.efax.com/\n\nGood luck!
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Basically you can't, because the fax machine desn't have an e-mail address, and isn't connected to an e-mail server-- it's only connected to a phone line. But there used to be a way to do so...\n\nYears ago, before the Internet, MCI offered an e-mail service called MCI Mail. You dialed up with your PC and modem and either composed your message online or uploaded a specially formatted text file. You could then either: \n1. send it as an e-mail to another MCI Mail user; \n2. send it as a telex to a telex machine; \n3. send it as a fax to a fax machine; or \n4. send it to a special printer that would print it out for delivery either as first-class mail or overnight delivery via a courier service. \n\nLater, when the Internet became popular, MCI Mail could be used to send/receive e-mail to/from Internet addresses. \n\nMCI Mail ran successfully and profitably for 20 years before being decommissioned a year or two ago.
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I don't think so, but you can receive faxes using "e-fax", which will send you an e-mail notifying you that you've received a fax.  \n\nYou need to download and install the e-fax "viewer" to read them, so you can only read them and/or print them, on your computer, or on a computer that you can downlaod the "viewer" on.  It's pretty cool, and I've been using it for a couple of years now.\n\nGo to www.efax.com.  The free version limits how many pages you can receive in a month, and gives you a generic fax number.  The paid version lets you choose your number, and lets you send faxes too.\n\nThey also have "e-voice" which does the same for voicemail messages.
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If you want something that will do everything you want, is easier to use than openoffice, is also free, and is only 5mb instead of 90mb to download, then try abiword:\nhttp://www.abiword.com/
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Hi Brad...faxing from within Appleworks is available.  Simply go to the File -> Print menu item. In the Print dialog window select the Fax.\n\nConsider visiting and joining the free Apple Discussion forum:  http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa\n\nYou can find more helpful answers for Mac-related questions from this forum.
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you dont need any software you already have the facilty to do this on your pc. click start / run / then type "CMD" in dos window use the net send command to send messages to others on your LAN
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If you don't care about the cover sheet having an ad, you can use FaxZero.com. \n\nFree Fax\n    *Free!\n    *Ad on the cover page\n    *Maximum 3 pages per fax\n    *Maximum 2 faxes per day
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use efax...  link is below!
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From Bob Rankin. Yes, there are a few places online that allow you to send a free fax, no strings attached. You don't need a fax machine, you don't need fax software, you don't have to give anyone your credit card number. My favorite is FaxZero, which lets you send a fax to any fax machine in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or Canada for free. All you need is a computer on the Internet and a valid e-mail address. Faxzero is web-based, so you can access it with a PC, Mac or Linux based computer.\n\nHere's how it works... First visit FaxZero.com and fill out the fax form. Enter your e-mail address and carefully type the Confirmation Code. (This prevents malicious users and automated bots from abusing the system.) Then type the text of your fax (for a quick text-based fax) or attach a file. You can send plain text, PDF, Microsoft Word (DOC), or an Excel spreadsheet (XLS) file. Ready to send? Whack the Send Free Fax Now button!\n\nA confirmation message will then be sent to your e-mail address. Your fax won't be transmitted until you click the link in that message. You'll receive an e-mail confirming that the fax was either delivered, or that it failed for some reason.\n\nFree Internet Faxing... Really?Yes, it's really free. The service is supported by advertising on the cover page of the free faxes you send. That seems like a small "price" to pay for sending a free fax. You don't have to buy a fax machine, fax software, fax supplies, get a fax line, or pay long distance phone charges. And typically the cover page is mostly blank anyway. Why not fill it up with something useful? \n\nAnd you needn't be concerned about getting spammed or scammed if you use FaxZero. Here's the FaxZero privacy policy:\n\nWe hate junk e-mail and junk faxes, and will absolutely not send any unsolicited e-mail or faxes. Users will receive e-mail messages (such as confirmation messages) as part of the process of using the service. If you subscribe to the FaxZero mailing list, we will send occasional news about the service, which may include advertisments for our marketing partners. Your name, company name, e-mail address, and fax number will appear in the "Sender Information" area of the faxes that you send. FaxZero will not share your information, nor information about the people you send faxes to, with marketers or anyone else, unless compelled to do so by court order. \nCan I Send Unlimited Free Faxes?No, the free service provided by FaxZero is limited to 2 faxes per day, and there's a maximum of three pages per fax. If you need to send more than that, you can use the FaxZero Premium service. Sending a premium fax costs $1.79, and there's no ad or FaxZero logo on the cover page, so you may like that for business communications. The number of pages increases from 3 to 10, and there's no 2-fax-per-day limitation.
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No but you can send faxes with Microsoft Word.  I don't know what kind of connection you have, but you may have to plug a phone line in to do this.  But I have done it many time and it always works well.
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That is a modem card for a laptop computer that also has fax capability (with the correct software)
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Look into OpenOffice.  I hear it is as good if not better then MSOffice and is 100% compatible and the price is right- free!
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You could use efax or something like that. Incoming faxes are free. Outgoing cost a few cents.