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FaxOrama iPhone application

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

UnityFax is proud to introduce to you our new iPhone application for sending faxes from your mobile phone – the FaxOrama app, which is available through the iTunes store. Using this application you can snap images with your camera, then send them by fax or e-mail.

In this blog article we will describe to you how it works.

When you download, install and start the application you will see the splash screen:

Splash screen

You will then will be forwarded to the main page:

Faxorama iPhone app main page

Here the two main options are “Send a Fax” and “Email faxable PDF”. The first one is used to send faxes by snapping images from your camera and the second option allows you to email these images in a format that is ready to be faxed. There is also a “Help” button in the bottom-left which provides instructions on the use of the app and a “Settings” button at the bottom-right which will display the following screen:

This screen allows you to enter your name, email address and default page quality.  These global settings are saved and used to auto-fill when sending faxes or emails.

You are now ready to use the app!

When you select “Send a Fax”, the following screen will be displayed:

“Scan from Camera” will forward you to the iPhone camera screen:

When you snap an image, it will be ready for faxing.  You can review it by zooming in to ensure it is readable and quality is good. You can then select “Send Fax Now” or add additional images.

If you select “Send Fax Now”, the following screen will be displayed.

The “From Name” and “From Email” should automatically be filled-in with the information provided on the “Settings” page.  You can now add a subject, the recipients name and their fax number.

When you are ready, tap “Send Now” and your fax will be sent.

Fax letter sent

See – sending faxes using iPhone is that easy! Go ahead and test it yourself.

(*) The free service allows you to send two faxes (up to five pages each) per day. If you use your UnityFax.com account e-mail, then you will have no limits in sending faxes.

Mad Dog Attacks Fax Machine

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Remember how the cat attacked the fax machine? Well this beagle dog is thinking to do the same soon:

FTP service for fax management

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

In a previous article we did show the UnityFax secure storage service. The default interface of secure storage is web based – it is accessed through the password protected “Download (FAX)” area on UnityFax.com. The incoming faxes are organized in folders for each month and the sent items are in the “Sent” folder. It does provide a convenient “Search” feature with which you can search for a specific fax letter.

Sometimes you may encounter a situation in which you wish to download all of your faxes from the secure storage at once. It is a common situation and a good backup practice to keep a local copy of all your PDF/image files with faxes and have them fully synchronized with the secure storage on the server. Yes, the web interface will let you do that; however it has to be done manually, since it does not support bulk functions. A much more convenient way to accomplish bulk operations is by using the FTP service.

For a small additional monthly fee you can access and download all your faxes in the secure storage via FTP or Secure FTP (SFTP). It can be activated from the “Services” section of the administrative control panel:

As soon as you activate the service it will be immediately available. To access your files you will need an FTP client. One example is the freeware program FileZilla which we will use for our example usage below. Of course there are many other clients available and the UnityFax FTP service should work with all of them.

When you start FileZilla you will see a default screen divided in four panels – log, local files/folders, remote files/folders and transfer queue. On the toolbar there is a hostname, username, password and port text fields and a quick connect button. You have to type the following information before you connect:

Hostname: ftp.faxorama.com
Username: <your user account e-mail address>
Password: <your user account password>
Port: 21 (this is the default port)

The screen should look like similar to the following:

When you click on the “Quickconnect” button the FileZilla client will connect to the server and download the directory listing. You will see the folders listed on the right side panel:

Now you are able to browse the folders and view your files from the right panel and you can download them to the local computer. We will show how to make a full backup of all data. First we need to choose to which folder the files will be downloaded. In our case we did create a folder called “Fax backups” on drive “C:”, which is currently empty:

Select the files/folders from the right panel (in our case, for full copy of the secure storage backup, we will select all folders in the root), right-click on one of them and choose “Download”:

The files will be added to your download queue (the bottom panel of the FileZilla screen) – you will see all PDF/image files added to the “Queued files”. The transfer of the files should take some time depending on how many files you have and your connection speed. When everything is finished you will have your full backup downloaded on the local computer (in our case in the “c:\fax backups” folder). You can now close FileZilla and browse this folder through “My Computer”.

Email Fax Service

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

When I first started working for myself I had run into a couple problems with having all of the necessary tools to run a business the way that I knew I would have to. I started my own product business online and almost daily I would get requests asking me for my fax number so I could get log information faxed to me directly. Well the problem there was I didn’t actually own my own fax machine.

I talked to a couple of my friends and one of them asked me if I had ever heard of a service that would allow you to use a fax number online. Of course I hadn’t heard of something like this before so I thought I would start doing some research. I eventually found an email fax service and thought this couldn’t be better.

Having a fax machine is really something that every business should have especially as early as they can get one. However wouldn’t it be really great if you didn’t have to use a fax machine at all and instead could simply fax people through using an online service such as your email?

I think that would be more than fantastic and after discovering that there were several places I could turn to for applications and software that would allow me to do this I was quite excited.

I quickly learned of the sites that would allow you to create software that would actually allow you to get faxes that people needed to send to you sent directly to your email address so you could acquire them on your own time. This is in fact quite an amazing piece of software and something I found great for my business.

If you can relate to my situation at all than perhaps an email fax service can help your business too.

Internet faxing plans are available for just pennies a day and give you advanced faxing capability that is not available from a typical fax machine. With one of these send fax online services, you can send a fax directly from email, from your secure online account, or many programs already on your computer.

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Mad Cat Attacks Fax Machine!!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

How To Get Free Fax Number?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

If you are familiar with sending and receiving faxes, such as important documents, then you are also aware that it requires you to have a fax/phone line. These lines are paid and usually cost more then $20 a month. So you may be wondering if there is a way to get a fax number for free.

There are providers such as UnityFax that offers this kind of solution in order for you to send and receive fax through email. So, to take advantage of their service, you need to create an online account over their webpage. When you sign up for their service, UnityFax will provide you a toll free or local number where you can send and receive fax messages anywhere and at any time. This is easy since all you need to do is to have access to the Internet. Added to that, using a free fax number through UnityFax will save you money and save the environment.

You see, getting a free fax number is easy with UnityFax. You need to stop paying for your local line and signup with them to take advantage of their service offer. Most of their local plans offer unlimited receiving.

Fax by Email

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

There are always new things that are appearing as options to make life easier for people. Now we see that fax by email has become a popular choice for many. Are you not sure what this is? Well to put it simply, it is the ability to send or receive fax messages via the Internet by using your computer.

There are a lot of benefits that people are finding with this type of faxing messages. No longer is there the need for an expensive fax machine, a separate phone line, and all the other added costs like paper.

There are a lot of choices that a person has when it comes to choosing a company that offers fax by email services. Looking around the Internet can help you find who and what all is available. Then you can see what is out there and the costs that are associated with them.

By using this type of fax system you no longer have the issues with paper jams and all the extras that cost you money. Paying a company a very fair charge per month can be the best option for a lot of people. Think of the savings that result from not needing the extra equipment and phone lines that were required in the past!

Make sure that you know what you need to get out of a fax to email service. Some people want to be able to send and receive, while others only need to be able to receive faxes. There are differing prices for various services. By researching what is available in options can be the most beneficial thing that a person can do. It is also a way to make sure that you are getting what you need. Why pay for the extras if you are not going to use them?

An online fax service, or fax by email service, allows you to send and receive faxes using the Internet without the need to ever print or scan documents. These online fax services give you faxing capability that was never possible using a traditional fax machine.

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