What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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Q: Do you use an online fax service? If not, do you know about any of them? I am thinking about getting rid of our landline, and I need a solution for the faxes. A: I use the free version of eFax. Pretty decent but for inbound faxes but I still use a real fax machine in the rare cases I send an outbound fax. A potential downside to the free account is that you usually won't get a local number. In fact, I think the eFax number I was assigned has its area code based in Washington. It still… Continue reading...
Straight from the department of I had that idea 10 years ago and never did anything with it, I discovered a new web service today called Shoeboxed. To use the Shoeboxed service you send all of your paper receipts to them so they can scan and categorize them. No more jamming all of your paper receipts in a shoebox just in case you need them years later. Like I said, I had this idea almost 10 years ago but I guess I was ahead of my time. I wanted the service so I could have digital copies of all of… Continue reading...
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Have you ever been stuck in your closet trying to figure out what to wear? All of the usual questions cross your mind. Is it warm enough out for this shirt? Does this shirt go with these pants? Didn't I just wear this a couple of days ago? This week's technology I'd like to see solves all of this. It's a digital closet. Think of a big database that stores all of the information about your clothes that can be accessed using a touch screen panel with a built-in scanner in your closet. I think I'd start by tagging all… Continue reading...
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I was helping a client the other day and we were discussing phone lines and fax machines. He was trying to figure out how many phone lines he needed for his home phone, business phone and fax. I told him that there was no need any more for a dedicated phone line for a fax machine. And I wasn't even referring to getting one of those little gizmos that you can hook up to your phone line that automatically detect whether an incoming call is a voice call or a fax. Nope. I was referring to how obsolete having a… Continue reading...
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