Go online the next time you need to send a fax. It may save you money.

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What if I told you that you could send and receive faxes without a fax machine or a fax modem? Today Cat tours the websites that let you do it and walks you through the steps of using these services.

To receive a fax
The Web service you choose will give you a phone number (ideally in your area code) that you can give out to people. That's your fax number. When you receive a fax, it will arrive as an email with an attachment.

To send a fax
You actually send an email as an attachment. The attachment can be a document or a scanned-in image. Since you're not dialing by phone, you need to put the phone number of the receiving fax machine in the "Send To:" field. For example, to send a fax via eFax to 415.555.1212, you'd address the message to 14155551212@efaxsend.com.

Cost
Receiving faxes is free. Sending faxes is going to cost you. There are a few sites that will let you send for free, but they're extremely slow, unreliable, and heavily advertiser-supported (which means every fax you send will be preceded by a one-page advertisement). These free fax-sending services are a dying breed.

Even if sending faxes is not free, Web faxing is still cheaper than traditional faxing or faxing through your modem. The process is similar to faxing via your modem. Everything you'll send will be either a simple text message or an attachment. If you want to send a paper document that doesn't already exist as a file, you'll have to scan it.

Although cheaper, Web faxing does not have anything like the organizational capabilities of faxing via modem. If organization is key to you, try WinFax Pro. But if you're doing a volume of faxing, especially internationally, you'll save a bundle on Web faxing.

Read on for a comparison review of the top contenders in Web faxing.

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