Computer Questions

[katykat]

I have DSL. Is there a way for me to send a fax through my computer?

Also have noticed that my computer seems to run slowly in the past few months. I have tons of memory and 256 RAM. I don't know which start-up items I need to keep running. Microsoft updates add so much stuff and I am confused as to what is necessary for me to keep running. Any ideas?

Otherwise, hope everyone is having a great day!

[pbj12]

I don't have a clue, but just wanted to say hi!

Smoochies.

[katykat]

I don't have a clue, but just wanted to say hi!

Smoochies.
Smoochie back at ya'! Miss your smiling face!

[pbj12]

It looks like this :D

[Theo!]

There are online fax services you can use. I pay $10 a month for MyFax.com, which allows me to send and receive faxes through my e-mail. The downside is that you'll have to scan each page individually before being able to fax them out, but receiving them is a breeze.

[katykat]

Theo, I so seldom have any need to fax that I would not want to pay a monthly fee. But I'm glad to know that such a service is available.

[katykat]

It looks like this :D

:confused: This is how I usually look!

[pbj12]

Does your printer scan? Because you could save the fax charges by just scanning a document and emailing it. That's what I do.

[radar2]

Hi, katykat,

I don't know the answer to your question - my computer it slowing down too...

But I wanted to say Hi!

[katykat]

I do scan things all the time. I'm not sure if I can email to this particular destination.

[katykat]

Hi, katykat,

I don't know the answer to your question - my computer it slowing down too...

But I wanted to say Hi!

A big ol' howdy to you, radar2! Long time, no see. Hope life is treating you well!

[Administrator]

I have DSL. Is there a way for me to send a fax through my computer?

Also have noticed that my computer seems to run slowly in the past few months. I have tons of memory and 256 RAM. I don't know which start-up items I need to keep running. Microsoft updates add so much stuff and I am confused as to what is necessary for me to keep running. Any ideas?

Otherwise, hope everyone is having a great day!

For Inernet use, DSL or Cable would be the bottleneck.. not your computer. Not that there is anything wrong with DSL... but most computers (I don't dare say all) are going to process internally faster than an external network connection.

Off the top of my head, my first concern would be RAM. 256mb is not much these days. Probably some of the programs you've added since you bought the computer will have a minimum requirement of 256mb. Minimum is never good.. it's typcially a prayer the developer throws out there so they can put 256mb on the box. If you'll notice, I think most basic machines today are shipping with 512mb - and you'd be encouraged to go to a 1gb. Due to my photography needs, I ordered my last MacPro laptop with 2gb or ram.

Video card can also be getting bogged down if you're doing things that are graphic intensive, but I'd look to the RAM first.

You can usually add RAM to a desktop machine easily and cheap. Just remember the chips need to go in pairs. So... if your computer has four slots for RAM, it probably came with a pair of 128mb = 256mb. So, your options are to add another pair of larger chips to fill all four slots... or fill all four slots with larger chips. Depending on how old the machine is, I usually recommend buying as much RAM as you can afford. It makes a significant difference.

For ease of explanation... think of your hard drive as a cupboard and your RAM memory as a countertop. Now... we all would like to have bigger cupboards... but most of us NEED bigger countertops. Right?

Admin

[noregrets]

I have DSL. Is there a way for me to send a fax through my computer?

Also have noticed that my computer seems to run slowly in the past few months. I have tons of memory and 256 RAM. I don't know which start-up items I need to keep running. Microsoft updates add so much stuff and I am confused as to what is necessary for me to keep running. Any ideas?

Otherwise, hope everyone is having a great day!

Hi Kat! How are you? I've been working my backside off. When am I going to see you?

Copy all of the stuff that you need and want off of your computer and get it reformatted and re-installed. Unfortunately, it's the best answer and should be done every year or so, even though it sucks!

Otherwise:

1) Hit the start menu, go to Programs, go to Accessories and then to System Tools. Run "Disk Defragmentor". You will probably have to run it overnight. After that, launch "Disk Clean-up". Go do something for a while, come back and follow instructions. If you run Internet Explorer, go to Tools menu, Options, and choose "Delete Files".

[Administrator]

Copy all of the stuff that you need and want off of your computer and get it reformatted and re-installed. Unfortunately, it's the best answer and should be done every year or so, even though it sucks!


A great work-around I've discovered is to invest in an external hard drive. They're very affordable these days.... probably around 50 cents per gb.

What I do now is use my computer's internal drive only for programs. Any work generated, documents, graphics, photose.... my "stuff," I keep on the external drive (actually, because off my photography work I have two terabyte of external hard drive space). The big advantage is, first I can easily do program re-installs as noregrets is suggesting, but more importantly, when I upgrade to a new system, it's simply a matter of installing the programs I use and plugging in my external hard drives... and I'm back to work. But, it also leaves your actual computer running lean n' mean.

Admin

[Theo!]

I'm with Admin on your computer needs. I've been building my own for years, and his advice is very sound.

If you don't have a regular need to fax items, I'd just go to the UPS Store or someplace similar that has a fax service available.

Admin, I've gone the same route with an external hard drive. I install programs on my C drive, have a second internal hard drive where I keep backups, and use my external as a shared primary data drive between my desktop and my laptop.

[kaydee]

katykat, try e-fax. Some their services are free (maybe only incoming?). I don't use it but a friend of mine uses it all the time.

[Chaos]

There's a fax sender built right into Windows--If it's not showing up under "Programs" or "All Programs" --> "Accessories" --> "Communications", insert the "Resource CD" that came with your computer (as I recall, you have a Dell, don't you?) find the fax program on that and install it--Then you can scan documents into your computer or produce Word documents and scan them from there if you want--

Personally, I haven't cared for the built-in fax program since Windows '98 when it was simpler and more intuitive to use--And you can't receive faxes with it, only send them--I've been using WinFax Pro to send faxes ever since I converted to Windows 2000 and subsequently PX--Got it for practically nothing.......I think about $10.......at a computer show because there was a newer version out and it does everything I need it to--You can attach scanned docs or Word docs etc. to the cover page and fax them that way--

I don't use that for receiving faxes, though, because (at least the version I have) has only two settings for receiving; one where you have to know that a fax is coming and be sitting at the PC awaiting it so that you can manually tell it to receive this call as a fax or one that will answer all calls as faxes, both of which I consider to be a pain--I also have a program called Call Station ($30) which serves as an answering machine, phone dialer and call screener among other things, and can also be set to detect if an incoming call is, indeed, a fax and will receive the fax automatically whether I'm around or not--Hence, I just let that take care of incoming faxes for me--

And you do have to have a fax modem installed in your PC to use any fax program--If yours didn't come with one, you'll need to get one, though they're fairly cheap and easy to install--

A second internal or external hard drive is also a good idea as others have said--I run an automatic backup of my data (documents, pictures, music, call and fax logs, bookmarks, firewall settings etc.) to an external hard drive once a week so that my data is protected and I wind-up reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling my software about twice a year just to clean up all the junk that has a tendency to build up over time--With the data backed-up, it's not a big deal to format and reinstall Windows and your software and then just run a restore operation from the backup program to put all of your data back where it belongs and it not only speeds up your machine because it gets rid of lots of little junk bits of stuff that accumulate but it also frees-up hard drive space by getting rid of those things, too--

And yes, 256 MB or RAM is pretty minimal anymore--Check with Dell to see if you can increase it to at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB--Memory is cheap and super easy to install and it's worth it to have as much as your PC will take--C

[katykat]

I'm so out of touch with technology I didn't realize that one could get RAM in Gigabytes! I do use a number of photo programs so from what you and others have said, it seems that installing a lot more RAM would be a good solution.

I have a Dell Dimension 8250, but I can't remember what kind of RAM it has. Is there a way to find out without taking the machine apart?

[katykat]

Hi Kat! How are you? I've been working my backside off. When am I going to see you?

Copy all of the stuff that you need and want off of your computer and get it reformatted and re-installed. Unfortunately, it's the best answer and should be done every year or so, even though it sucks!

Otherwise:

1) Hit the start menu, go to Programs, go to Accessories and then to System Tools. Run "Disk Defragmentor". You will probably have to run it overnight. After that, launch "Disk Clean-up". Go do something for a while, come back and follow instructions. If you run Internet Explorer, go to Tools menu, Options, and choose "Delete Files".
Hey! I'll be in NY next Friday. Thought for about 10 seconds about going to the city for St. Patricks, but since it will snow (it always snows when I come for St. Pat's) I think I will avoid it. I'll call you before I leave home.

[katykat]

Thanks to all for the fax suggestions. It is clear that I do need more RAM.

I have some slot thingies on the front of the computer for some kind of memory thingies. (See how computer savvy I am?) I don't have any of the thingies to stick in there. Should I get one? How much data do they hold?

Chaos, thank you for thinking that I would be capable of reformatting etc. The truth is, I can't even figure out how to open the freakin' machine!

Say, I have a network card and a router to network with my other PC. I don't use it, however. Would that slow my machine down?

[SeptMorn]

:) those slots thingies are probably USB ports, and the only memory thingies they will support would be like a external hard drive.

I could be wrong though, I just never knew there would be memory things on the outside of a PC?

[noregrets]

A great work-around I've discovered is to invest in an external hard drive. They're very affordable these days.... probably around 50 cents per gb.

What I do now is use my computer's internal drive only for programs. Any work generated, documents, graphics, photose.... my "stuff," I keep on the external drive (actually, because off my photography work I have two terabyte of external hard drive space). The big advantage is, first I can easily do program re-installs as noregrets is suggesting, but more importantly, when I upgrade to a new system, it's simply a matter of installing the programs I use and plugging in my external hard drives... and I'm back to work. But, it also leaves your actual computer running lean n' mean.

Admin

Good point! I use my iPod as my backup drive. It's such a handy little thing!

[noregrets]

Hey! I'll be in NY next Friday. Thought for about 10 seconds about going to the city for St. Patricks, but since it will snow (it always snows when I come for St. Pat's) I think I will avoid it. I'll call you before I leave home.

Thank you for not coming on St. Patricks. We really don't want the snow!

[poolman]

I am totaly amazed at that little thingie you put in that little USB port and it holds more info than my first few puters.

[Tuffy]

That is amazing isn't it Pool.

Ok, my computer did not change time. Normally I can always count on my computer to change. I go to Microsoft and they start asking questions I can't answer. So, other then calling my ex, how do I know what operating system and what updates I have?

I will say this about AOL although I grew to hate them and no longer have them, they did do this nice little thing about telling me when to fix things.

[Administrator]

I am totaly amazed at that little thingie you put in that little USB port and it holds more info than my first few puters.

In my other "life" I"m a motorsports photographer. One evening I left the track to get something to eat with friends. While waiting for our table I'm standing there sort of jiggling the change in my pocket... but noticed it wasn't change... it was compact flash cards. Four of them, actually, at 2 gigabyte apiece. And it dawned on me... I'm standing their holding 8 gigabytes of memory in the palm of my hand no bigger than a matchbook.

I can recall buying my first 1gb hard drive and thinking.... "I'm done! I'll never need another hard drive." Right... :D I now have 2TB (terabytes) sitting on my desktop. ;)

Amazing.

[magic-cat]

When I got my first desktop back in 1997, everyone told me it was the king of kings, lord of lords and host of hosts. I don't even remember how much memory, ram and whatever else it held.

Then I got a lap top, which my son explained to me had twice the memory of the desk top. Whoa!

And then my second computer came along, which had more than the lap top. Then the next desktop went bigger than that, and finally the laptop I've got now is supposed to be bigger memory than any of those.

Mr. Amazing tells me it's out of date and not powerful enough. :eek:

I can't wait until they make computers biologically compatible and a little more like Wii. I want the chip installed in my brain, and wires along the neurons of my fingers so that I can type on and invisible keyboard.

So scifi! So cool!

[poolman]

The one thing I do not like about progress is once you halfway figure a system everything changes and you have to start over.

[Mark..]

You don't need to tell anyone that info. Just:

1) Double-click on the time, in the right hand, lower corner of your taskbar. Manually change the time.

2) OR Wait three weeks and it will be right again, without you doing a thing!

[Lindsay]

Katykat!!! Howdee!!!

In answer to your question, I asked AT&T Tech support that same question back in the day when it was still SWBell. They said it's possible, but not easy, so for all intents and purposes, they say no. I do have fax software and have been able to send faxes but for some reason I can't receive them. You have to have a regular phone line hooked up to a data/fax modem (not your dsl modem/router) to do it and that always seems to interfere with stuff. I never took the time to figure it all out because I just don't fax enough to mess with it.

So.. I have a fax machine.

[2ndWind]

The one thing I do not like about progress is once you halfway figure a system everything changes and you have to start over.

Wow, maybe the quote thing will work for me this time. That's definitely the truth. I have a T-Mobile Nokia cell phone from about 2003, and don't want a new one because I don't want to learn how to use it. People smile when I pull it out--it's twice the size of the newer cellphones--but it works perfectly, doesn't break if you drop it, has no camera gadgets, etc, and I'm planning on keeping it until it no longer works....

[Lindsay]

Admin, my first computer had 212MG harddrive space and a whopping 8MG RAM. It was a custom build because at the time you couldn't purchase a machine with 8MG RAM for under $3500 or so. The man that built it actually argued with me that I would never need that much memory and it was foolish to spend the money, but at the time, I was enrolled in a college course on MS Office and it recommended 8MG.

I too, remember my first 1G harddrive. It was a dream of mine to have that much space and for Christmas, my husband shelled out $250 and bought it for me. I thought I'd arrived!!! That and 8MG RAM... what more could I ever need?

My smallest jumpdrive is bigger than that!:D

[poolman]

Don't get me started on cell phones!

I had to purchase new ones a few months back and they are microscopic! My fingers can't press the little buttons so I have to keep my thumb nail long and pointy to hit the keys.

I want my big old bulky bag phone from the early 80's back. At least it had big glow in the dark numbers and buttons for call or hang up instead of little squiggles.

[Administrator]

Admin, my first computer had 212MG harddrive space and a whopping 8MG RAM. It was a custom build because at the time you couldn't purchase a machine with 8MG RAM for under $3500 or so. The man that built it actually argued with me that I would never need that much memory and it was foolish to spend the money, but at the time, I was enrolled in a college course on MS Office and it recommended 8MG.

I too, remember my first 1G harddrive. It was a dream of mine to have that much space and for Christmas, my husband shelled out $250 and bought it for me. I thought I'd arrived!!! That and 8MG RAM... what more could I ever need?

My smallest jumpdrive is bigger than that!:D


Well, gee ... I'm catching myself bragging here that mine is smaller than yours. LOL

In the office we had a 286 with 512K of ram and a 20meg hard drive. LOL... and no windows or mouse. At home I started in 1988 with a 105mb hard drive.. "386" (no pentium chips) and 4 meg of ram. Funny... most tech support people would be ready to give me the old "probably not enough ram" since most basic boxes came with one or two meg. The 4meg would shut them up in a hurry while sending them to really figure out the problem.

Wait? Did I say tech support? That must age me... kind of like when they used to pump gas AND it was 30 cents a gallon. ARGH!!!!

[Lindsay]

That must age me... kind of like when they used to pump gas AND it was 30 cents a gallon. ARGH!!!!

Age YOU? Lord. I remember when a boyfriend of mine worked at a gas station and would have gas wars with the station across the street. He'd call me when gas got as low as it would go. One time I paid $.07/gallon. 50 cents would let us drag main all evening! Gas was regularly $.19/gallon.

And yes, your 286 was smaller... mine was a 386 DX40. That was a turbo, dontcha know? All my friends were green with envy. *LOL*

[poolman]

I paid $4k for my first 386 and dot matrix printer in the early 80's. Lotus was a nightmare!

I'm dating myself but I can only remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon and cigarettes were 25 cents a pack.

[noregrets]

I can recall buying my first 1gb hard drive and thinking.... "I'm done! I'll never need another hard drive." Right... :D I now have 2TB (terabytes) sitting on my desktop. ;)

Amazing.

I remember floppy diskettes AND I remember when they were bigger than my head.

[cherryblossom]

Don't get me started on cell phones!

I had to purchase new ones a few months back and they are microscopic! My fingers can't press the little buttons so I have to keep my thumb nail long and pointy to hit the keys.

I want my big old bulky bag phone from the early 80's back. At least it had big glow in the dark numbers and buttons for call or hang up instead of little squiggles.

Long nails on a man? :eek: Anyway, I'm in love with the microscopic cell phones, the cuter the better. And it helps tremendously if they are pink. Must be a girl thing.;)

I love the USB port technology. You can plug in anything to your computer system and it's so easy and convenient.

My 14-year-old son is the computer whiz in the house. Anything I need to know concerning software, hardware, program operation, the internet, he can tell me! I love it! It sure makes life easier for me.

The thing is, he knows how to hack into computer systems...and has done it before...:( :eek:

[Tuffy]

Fine, I wasn't going to play this game but I remember learning BASIC and Fortran having to use punch cards for the programs in 1980. This starting my total indifference to computers were I learn exactly what I need to know and nothing else. I remember dropping all my punch cards that I had just put 6 hours into and thinking at that moment I wasn't going into engineering, I was going to be a social worker.

We also used to have an Apple 2E, I think this was 1986, I know I was using it in grad school for papers.

[Unique Handle]

I started my career doing Operating Systems mods for a large airline named after a country some of you might recognize. Our four-floor data center had far less online storage capacity than a freaking USB jump drive / key has today. On the other hand, try refrigerating your beer under the false floor of a USB key.

Modern techology never comes without some penalty.

[magic-cat]

I started my career doing Operating Systems mods for a large airline named after a country some of you might recognize.

For those who might still be wondering, I believe Unique is referring to the nation of Quantas.

[ejmuller]

Set the Way Back machine, Mr. Peabody! I remember using the MagCard system and the IBM Displaywriter and the Wang dedicated word processing system back in my early days as a legal secretary. When I first started my career in IT, we didn't even have networks yet - just the "sneaker network" which was copying files to floppy disks and walking them around when you needed to share files.

My, how times have changed! Now I can get a hard drive that hangs off my key chain and holds more data than my first computer. Geez, I sound like a geezer. (I'm not - I just sound like one!)

[ejmuller]

For those who might still be wondering, I believe Unique is referring to the nation of Quantas.

I thought it was the nation of Pan Am!

Gee, that brings back memories too. I used to work in the Pan Am building in New York City, back when Pan Am used it as its world headquarters. The people who worked there were so dedicated and loved that company. When Pan Am went down the tubes, there were people crying in the hallways and sobbing in the lobby. The saddest thing was when the building was sold and they changed the logo on the building to Met Life. For me, it will always be the Pan Am building. :(

[magic-cat]

My first thought was that he was referring to the nation of Virgin Atlantic. And then I thought to myself, "Well, that's just plain silly."

[ghead1]

when I first started working here in 1988, we all had "portable computers"... Compaq 386's that took 5.25 " floopies. The hard drive was negligible. We never did backups...

They were about 15" wide, 14" deep and 15" tall all closed up, weighed about 20 lbs or so, and they unfolded so the keyboard lay flat and the screen kind of popped up... a black screen with orange typeface. We used Excel and Word, but it was primitive. We each had a dot matrix printer in our office, and the day before loan committee it sounded like a nest of angry wasps in the office!

[Tiddly]

I trained and worked the IBM Displaywriter too!

[Tiddly]

Hi Katykat!!! I have faxed from my computer before and received faxes and I don't pay a monthly fee. It's been a long time but I think you can!

[magic-cat]

I owned my first actual computer in 1995, and it wasn't much more than a glorified word processor. I bought it second hand from my church, and they dutifully informed me, "Just so you know, it doesn't do Windows."

I remember giving them a truly blank look and answering, "That's okay. I can do them myself."

:D

[Tiddly]

The one thing I do not like about progress is once you halfway figure a system everything changes and you have to start over.

That is so true Pool, Same here! I wish a computer would stay great for at least 5 years!

[Unique Handle]

I remember about ten years ago coining the terms GiggleByte (so much memory, it's laughable) and TerrorByte (so much memory, it's frightening). And now Giga and Tera have long since supplanted Kilo and Mega as our storage prefixes-du-jour.Bill Gates once stated that 640Kbytes of RAM would be more than sufficient for any conceivable PC application. The sad reality is that Vista needs about 500 times that amount just to display an empty desktop (but with bubbles!)If Gates had seen those bubbles coming, I'm sure he would predicated that no PC would ever need more than "tons more than a whole lot of exabytes" of RAM.

[magic-cat]

I predict computers of the future will take up entire rooms and run on reel-to-reel information and have lots of blinking lights and buzzing noises.

Then we'll really start to see progress!

[Tiddly]

I remember about ten years ago coining the terms GiggleByte (so much memory, it's laughable) and TerrorByte (so much memory, it's frightening). And now Giga and Tera have long since supplanted Kilo and Mega as our storage prefixes-du-jour.Bill Gates once stated that 640Kbytes of RAM would be more than sufficient for any conceivable PC application. The sad reality is that Vista needs about 500 times that amount just to display an empty desktop (but with bubbles!)If Gates had seen those bubbles coming, I'm sure he would predicated that no PC would ever need more than "tons more than a whole lot of exabytes" of RAM.


Does anyone here hav the Vista? Our home office at work won't let us run it yet because too many bugs/kinks..... so what's one to do buying a new computer?

[dadwmu]

Hwy, when did this format change? Is this site more user friendly?

[ghead1]

Tiddly, I guess buy something with no programming and get Linux... I hear that's REALLY the way to go.

I've got XP professional, and I like it...

[Unique Handle]

Does anyone here hav the Vista? Our home office at work won't let us run it yet because too many bugs/kinks..... so what's one to do buying a new computer?

I've had a few copies of Vista running here for a few months and yeah, there are some glitches, particularly in the 64-bit world. Still, if you're going to order a new O/S, Vista is actually quite stable and moreover, buys you a few more years on the support horizon.

I just ordered 100 copies a few hours ago, so I'd better be right.

[Unique Handle]

I predict computers of the future will take up entire rooms and run on reel-to-reel information and have lots of blinking lights and buzzing noises.

Then we'll really start to see progress!

Back in the days of large control panels full of blinking lights and guys running around in white UNIVAC jumpsuits, some of our longer-haired night-shift operators (LHNSOs) would turn all the lights out and just kind of ... stare at the lights.

The buzz did not originate from the electronics.

[Unique Handle]

Now that I'm a Member here, I find that my anecdotal tales of the Tube Age seem to carry that much more weight.

[zuzuzu]

If the automotive industry had evolved as quickly as the computer technology industry, we would all be driving Rolls Royces that cost $10, get 500 miles to the gallon, and which keep us from getting geographically lost. On the other hand, they would self-destruct at least once a year, killing all the occupants.

[Musicman]

Slow computers can be a variety of things. It's best to call a local "Geek Squad" and have them diagnose the problem for you.

There are so many things that can affect your PC's performance, and some of it is preventable.

Hard disc space is cheap these days. If your HD is over 80% full, you are likely having slow response times due to that. If you do not have a schedule to DEFRAG your HD routinely, it will definitely slow your PC down.

Any program installed and deleted, leaves a footprint in the registry. If this registry becomes too cluttered, it will slow down your performance.

Visiting some websites will now install 3rd party software without your knowledge or consent. Use Windows Defender, or something reliable to remove rogue proggys and trojans/viruses.

Want to see what launches everythime you start Windows?

Click START, then RUN. In the new window, type msconfig (XP users only).
In the new window that pops up, click the far right tab labeled "STARTUP".

Basically, you can deselect all those items without adverse affect on Windows. If you don't know what it is, ask an expert, or Google it.

Some ROGUE proggys are designed to run silently in the background and hidden. That't why it's best to go after a problem as soon as you see one.

Personally, I store and backup everything I want to keep. I format and RESTORE my system about every 12 months just to keep it smooth.

MM

[Tiddly]

thanks for that information!

[zirelda]

Does anyone here hav the Vista? Our home office at work won't let us run it yet because too many bugs/kinks..... so what's one to do buying a new computer?

I just ordered 3 new machines from Dell and asked for XP and they said Ok. I'm going to wait until the first service pack comes out before I buy Vista.

Microsoft will be supporting XP until 2011 which gives us all some time.

[Unique Handle]

I should perhaps point out that although I have ordered a whack of licenses for Vista (and Office 2007 Pro), we do not actually pay for them. Microsoft - yes, big old bad old Microsoft - has a tremendous philanthropic program when it comes to not-for-profits. It would be a huge understatement to say that without their generosity, we would not be able to offer the same standard of care for our clientele. So, like, THANKS MICROSOFT!

The icing on this little cake is that for less money than what the software would have cost retail, we can actually buy (and in fact, just did) a whole whack of Core 2 Duo machines that can run Vista x64 complete with bubbles. So, like, THANKS Unnamed computer vendor who could have seen their name in red if they'd knocked off another 20 per unit!

Life is very good in the not-for-profit world today.

[noregrets]

Oh, by the way...it's snowing and it's going to snow all day tomorrow. Thanks Kat.

[noregrets]

Hwy, when did this format change? Is this site more user friendly?

I dunno. One day it was all changed! I like.

[4Wardmarch]

I've used efax.com. It worked very well. I forget which, but in one direction it is free. Either sending is free and you pay to receive, or receiving is free and you pay to send.

[Tiddly]

great to know!!!!