03-10-2003, 09:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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KSE TrueFax 2.0 & the Zen of Faxing
"Sending documents securely is a great concern for business executives, especially when they are out of the office. Sending e-mail remotely can leave an executive vulnerable to corporate espionage, and there are certain documents that need to be sent or received via fax in situations where someone doesn't have access to a secure fax machine."
"KSE Software has a solution for secure faxing with TrueFax 2.0. This software for Pocket PCs lets users send and receive faxes directly from their Pocket PC, and guarantees that documents will be sent and received securely, eliminating worries about corporate spying or espionage. It gives users the ability to fax or receive faxes whether they're at a hotel, at dinner or in a business meeting."
This software got me thinking - how often are faxes still used? I have one in my office, but I only get perhaps two to five faxes a month, and I rarely have to send faxes...but for those instances when I do need a fax machine, I'm happy I keep my around. This got me thinking - what if I just used a Pocket PC for faxing? That would work OK for sending (I have a CF modem kicking around here someplace), but not really for receiving. How do you manage your fax scenarios?
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03-10-2003, 09:09 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 495
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i send and receive faxes a great deal at work. im sure businesses that place information in printed form continue to use them.
for receiving faxes i use jfax -- which gives me my personal fax number for incoming faxes but sends the .tif file to my email account where i can view it, store it, print it etc...
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03-10-2003, 09:19 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,639
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Originally Posted by Cortex
i send and receive faxes a great deal at work. im sure businesses that place information in printed form continue to use them.
for receiving faxes i use jfax -- which gives me my personal fax number for incoming faxes but sends the .tif file to my email account where i can view it, store it, print it etc...
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I use eFax which is probably the same kind of thing.
Nice thing is, that faxes come to my email so I can get them when traveling. I use my Thinkpad when traveling, I'm sure that a connected PDA would work with eFax just the same.
I do have a fax machine. It ran out of thermal ribbon about a year ago and hasn't been used since. Shows how little I used it. Having said that, I think my scanner is broken so maybe I'll have to get some ribbon.
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03-10-2003, 09:20 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24
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A simple workaroung to receive faxes on the go.
I use KSE Truefax to send & receive faxes. Sending is easy - receiving needs some thinking, unless you keep your PPC on and connected to a phone all the time.
How do I manage to receive faxes?
1. I have all faxes sent to my T-Mobile mailbox. Once a new fax is in, I receive a call from the mailbox, that a new fax has arrived.
2. In the mailbox-settings I have set the standard-faxnumber to be used to print-out faxes from my mailbox to the number of my mobile phone. This phone (SonyEricsson T68) is connected via Bluetooth to my ipaq 3870.
3. As soon as I receive the first info-call from my mailbox, I start the PPC and KSE-Truefax. Put Truefax to receiving mode and within a minute or so the fax-call from my mailbox arrives.
4. Truefax is set to automatically take incoming fax-calls from the mobile phone.
Alas, all incoming faxes end up on my PPC.
A little tricky, I admit, but it works well for these (admittedly rare) instances where I need to receive a fax while on the go.
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03-10-2003, 09:48 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 104
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Though I am not currently using my Pocket PC to manage faxes, I do still use faxes for my voiceover work. A studio often faxes me a script so I can go over it before recording an MP3 audition and shipping it back. Also, some voiceover work requires an NDA before you can even do the audition, so faxes are still worthwhile, at least in that sense.
I don't know that I am ready yet for managing my faxes via PDA, as i don't have constant connectivity yet, but the thought intrigues me.
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03-10-2003, 09:51 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 85
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Re: KSE TrueFax 2.0 & the Zen of Faxing
I probably send and/or receive 20 faxes per day, varying between 1 and 50 pages per fax - when i'm not using fed ex - lawyer = paper oriented profession. i have truefax for the ppc, used it for setup and never again - but great to have on the road for the capability of "printing" when necessary - can fax to a hotel you're staying at, etc.
I signed up for e-fax, never really used it - more of a "let's see what this can do"
so, in the computer field, faxes may not be that necessarily, but for other fields, still critical
just my 2 cents - btw - while i was typing this, i had a fax going through...
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03-10-2003, 10:20 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 60
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I use AirComUSA for my inbound and outbound faxing, even from the PPC.
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03-10-2003, 10:31 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,768
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faxes
I use the internet fax service from these guys :-)
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03-10-2003, 11:11 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 17
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I still want a plugin for A Efax type Service  ops:
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03-11-2003, 12:42 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,350
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In my line of work - legal - faxes are still used a lot. But then again, the same goes for WordPerfect.  I can send and receive faxes with my Pocket PC and a GSM phone using KSE Truefax or BVRP Winphone Pocket. W?BIC!
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