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Not everyone is as sophisticated as us email readers. Believe it or not there are still people who use and actually prefer the archaic fax. So for all of you who decide you want to receive a fax without paying out to a service like eFax what are you to do? Thankfully there is a solution. Its called K7. K7 gives you the ability to receive faxes or receive voice messages in your email free of charge. While the voice mail is good, it still doesn’t come close to GrandCentral’s ability to recover incoming voice mails, however GrandCentral can’t receive faxes either.

K7 makes money from it’s banners on their website and your faxes will come in unmolested. there are no limits, or hidden charges. One other extra benefit is that if you have a fax nearby and need something scanned quickly you can scan your page in and receive it in your email. Keep in mind Fax scanners are crude at best, but if you are in a pinch it could be pretty handy.

This is a guest post by Chris Carey of Noheat.com

Hamachi is a program which lets you interact with friends through the internet on a virtual network. It’s main feature let’s you interact in ways on the internet which you normally only can do on a private LAN. For example, you should be able to play an older PC game that only supports LAN through the internet with friends.

You can create a private network of your own for free. If you’re friends are everywhere in the world, you can use Hamachi so it’s as if they’re right next to you on your local area network!

I think that this program’s great, but isn’t perfect yet. You can instant message on it to individuals, but you cannot have a chat room, or a lobby like in IRC. I sometimes experience problems when I use it with Vista, but it does the job on XP. These are simple updates that work on for their newer versions.

Nonetheless, this program can also be a major problem solver for some as well. Hamachi is freeware, but a paid premium version is also available.

This is a guest post by Charles Leclerc of soniccagedome.com