Put your fax machine in the trash and get ready to fax straight from your desktop.

It's time to dump the fax machine and stop wasting paper. Yes, with Windows XP you can fax straight from your computer. No more fax paper, no more $2 a page at Kinko's. If you have a modem, you have all you need.

"Why a modem?" aghast broadband users exclaim. (And they thought they were so much cooler than dialup users!) Well, faxes travel over phone lines, not broadband lines. If you have an old modem, even a slow one that chokes and chortles and gasps, you can use it to send and receive faxes simply. Learn how here.