How to Fax in Lion

Faxing has been around in one form or another since the mid-1800s, and while there’s no question that it’s disappearing from many businesses around the world, there are still industries that rely heavily on faxed documents, notably real estate and construction, where paper trails of signed documents remain important. While standalone fax machines aren’t going away any time soon, it’s relatively easy to find multifunction print/scan/fax devices, and Internet faxing has become commonplace, it has become more difficult to fax from a computer.

That’s especially true for users of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which deprecates faxing in several ways.

I find this particularly

I find this particularly ironic because I purchased a NOS G5 Power Mac with a 23" CD and AppleCare in February of 2008, but when I tried to register the hardware with Apple online they would not accept it. Even bringing the paperwork to the Apple Store was not acceptable.

It *had* to be faxed. Once I sent the fax, all was good (thankfully because the PM died 2 years and 11 months after I bought it!).

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