{"id":2066,"date":"2009-05-21T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2020-11-27T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:45:33","slug":"fax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/21\/fax\/","title":{"rendered":"FAX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I seem to be achieving one of my goals for this house buying process &#8211; do as much as possible electronically &#8211; at least more than the last time I went through this dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hate FAX machines. I hate the &#8220;me use markum stick on dead tree to make decision real!&#8221; culture. I can move my life savings with the click of a button &#8211; but I have to pass information through paper to (for example) apply for a mortgage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, two technologies helped a lot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/onebox.com\">onebox<\/a> manages my business phone number. They provide a virtual switchboard from which I can control what *real* phone number rings when you dial that business number. I can point my number to my colleagues when I&#8217;m on vacation &#8211; and perhaps most beautiful &#8211; if you send a FAX to that business number, it shows up as a PDF in my email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/faxzero.com\">faxzero<\/a> accepts PDFs and faxes them for me. Under three pages of material is free, but they put an ad on the cover sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between these two I&#8217;m nearly paperless &#8211; at the very least I avoid the idiot dance of finding my fax machine, plugging it in, finding a land line phone to connect to it, etc. The remaining problem is that I still need to print, sign, and scan stuff. I could fix that with photoshop and a scanned version of my signature &#8211; but that strikes me as a security risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be achieving one of my goals for this house buying process &#8211; do as much as possible electronically &#8211; at least more than the last time I went through this dance. I hate FAX machines. I hate the &#8220;me use markum stick&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin","category-real-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}