Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-14 Thread keith smith 
Excellent info!!



 

Keith Smith



On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:58 AM, "j...@actionline.com" 
 wrote:
 
A few ideas that may be useful to someone:

1) There are several services that provide a free phone number
by which to receive faxes by email free. We use one of those.

2) When I need a document "scanned," I use either my cell phone
camera or my Nexus7 tablet which

3) On the *rare* occasion that I need to send a fax because
email transmission of documents is not accepted, I use faxzero.com

4) Recently, I discovered 'tesseract' for OCR on Linux and it
does an amazingly good job to convert jpg or pdf documents to text.

So, I often take a snapshot of a document with my Nexus 7 tablet
and scan the result with tesseract to get text. Works great!

We do have a cheap Canon printer/scanner/fax in a back room,
but now I rarely go there to use it for anything.

Just FWIW.




Keith last wrote:
> I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to
> standup to go to the scanner to scan in docs.  This is great, and I have
> done it in the past, however the manufacturer of my  all-in-one
> printer/fax/scanner/copier has not released drivers that work in windows
> 7 or 8 and I am not sure what is going on with Linux.
>
> As for cost,  I have a business voice line and I added a second number
> that has distinct ringing that activates the fax.  On the off chance I am
> on the phone when a fax is inbound, it goes to voice mail and I can send
> it to the fax when I dial into my voice mail.  All this is an extra
> couple bucks a month.  Much cheaper than fax by email.  And at this point
> works just find.  I see not need to buy new hardware so I can scan docs. 


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Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-14 Thread joe 
A few ideas that may be useful to someone:

1) There are several services that provide a free phone number
by which to receive faxes by email free. We use one of those.

2) When I need a document "scanned," I use either my cell phone
camera or my Nexus7 tablet which

3) On the *rare* occasion that I need to send a fax because
email transmission of documents is not accepted, I use faxzero.com

4) Recently, I discovered 'tesseract' for OCR on Linux and it
does an amazingly good job to convert jpg or pdf documents to text.

So, I often take a snapshot of a document with my Nexus 7 tablet
and scan the result with tesseract to get text. Works great!

We do have a cheap Canon printer/scanner/fax in a back room,
but now I rarely go there to use it for anything.

Just FWIW.



Keith last wrote:
> I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to
> standup to go to the scanner to scan in docs.  This is great, and I have
> done it in the past, however the manufacturer of my  all-in-one
> printer/fax/scanner/copier has not released drivers that work in windows
> 7 or 8 and I am not sure what is going on with Linux.
>
> As for cost,  I have a business voice line and I added a second number
> that has distinct ringing that activates the fax.  On the off chance I am
> on the phone when a fax is inbound, it goes to voice mail and I can send
> it to the fax when I dial into my voice mail.  All this is an extra
> couple bucks a month.  Much cheaper than fax by email.  And at this point
> works just find.  I see not need to buy new hardware so I can scan docs. 


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Re: Search Engines & email

2014-02-14 Thread Matt Graham 

On 2014-02-12 13:21, denise wrote:

In the DuckDuckGo forums I've seen suggestions for email
providers but I haven't tried any yet.  I would appreciate advice
for this as well.


I'm trying to get everything moved from large mail providers to the 
postfix/Courier IMAP/Roundcube combination I have installed on my VPS.  
This is technically more difficult than signing up with 
largemailprovider.com .  There are a lot of steps.  postfix and Courier 
IMAP are reasonably well documented, though, so it's not as difficult as 
it used to be to run your own mailserver.  Remember that no large mail 
service will take as good care of your mail as you will yourself, and 
that there are no ads or tracking on a roundcube webmail client unless 
you fiddle with it to put those things in.


I can put up a brief guide to setting up this stuff if people are 
interested.


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Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-14 Thread keith smith 
I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to standup 
to go to the scanner to scan in docs.  This is great, and I have done it in the 
past, however the manufacturer of my  all-in-one printer/fax/scanner/copier has 
not released drivers that work in windows 7 or 8 and I am not sure what is 
going on with Linux.

As for cost,  I have a business voice line and I added a second number that has 
distinct ringing that activates the fax.  On the off chance I am on the phone 
when a fax is inbound, it goes to voice mail and I can send it to the fax when 
I dial into my voice mail.  All this is an extra couple bucks a month.  Much 
cheaper than fax by email.  And at this point works just find.  I see not need 
to buy new hardware so I can scan docs.  If I need it I'll do so.

Your feedback is much appreciated!!  

 

Keith Smith



On Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:07 AM, Brian Cluff  wrote:
 
My point was that faxing is old technology that can (and should) be 
completely replaced by email/web/cloud storage... whatever is the most 
appropriate for your document.

Email is more reliable, and you get to see what the document looks like 
before you send it and it's even more of a time saver, because you don't 
even have to stand up and go to the fax machine.

Fax requires special equipment that can have all sorts of problems from 
low toner, paper jams, incomplete document retrieval, mechanical 
failuresetc...etc...  It also requires in most circumstances a 
dedicated phone line, so you get to pay $45 a month for a low quality 
version of a document when you can get a high quality one for free.  Not 
to mention the cost of the paper, toner (costs for both sender and 
reciever) and the machine itself.

It's the one piece of equipment that everyone thinks they need until you 
point out the alternatives and then they quickly decided that they don't 
need to pay a bunch of money every money to service Luddites.

Brian Cluff

On 02/13/2014 06:49 AM, keith smith wrote:
> Faxing can be a great time saver.  For instance if I forget to give my
> CPA something, I can fax it and save myself the hour round trip drive.
>
> Also faxes get read.  Emails go unopened and I probably will not get the
> cellular number of most of the people I have some sort of relationship
> with so texting is out of the question.
>
> That leaves phone, fax, and email.
>
> 
> Keith Smith
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:11 PM, Brian Cluff 
> wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 01:02 PM, Ed wrote:
>  > Asterisk - who sends faxes->mailmerge?
>
> Faxes?  Do you know of a service for mailing out 8-Track tapes too :)
>
> Brian
>
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