May 11th, 2009

Faxes which were popular in the 1980’s have slowly disappeared  with the advent of e-mail and file attachments, but very often a government agency or employer requires another agency to fax a document and certainly  the agency you could buy a fax machine for such rare a occasion.

But lucky enough, there are some services online that let us fax documents and PDFs for cheap or for free. Today there are four websites that allow us to send fax online and come with a free or trial version.

FaxZero and eFax provide straight-up faxing services without bells and whistles. Even FaxZERO will send faxes for free, just as long as they arre under three pages, and just as long as you don’t mind an ad on the coversheet, and just as long as you don’t want to send more than two in a day.

FaxZERO has a premium service that charges 1.99$ for each fax and limits the number of pages per fax at fifteen. If we need to send more than two faxes a day and you don’t want to pay for the premium service, then we could think of deleting our browser cache and cookies and using another IP address, either through the TOR network, proxies or simply by resetting our router.

Meanwhile, Qipit is a more comprehensive service when compared to faxZERO. Qipit is not merely an online faxing service, but also helps us upload photos of documents, business cards or receipts from a mobile phone or digital camera, and improves the image quality through a patented technology called Realeyes3D. Next images can be emailed or faxed.

Once our document is on Qipit, we can select to either view a PDF version of it, email the document or fax it. Qipit’s image optimization technology proved to be quite powerful. I never expected that a photo taken with a mobile phone camera could actually be put to use.

Via: Switched.

Aspire One AOA150 is a Acer mini laptop or Netbook which will be very flexible for those who need a cheap laptop with complete features to support your mobility and needs. Acer Aspire One AOA150-1920 Netbook has thin shape and light with it’s 2.9 pounds weight. This Netbook can do all the standard laptop can do and you can even get it in cheaper price compared to other laptop with similar features.

With the familiar operating system, Windows XP Home can be used for work or study while gathering the data from the internet through the built-in 802.11b/g WiFi, 10.1-inch CrystalBrite TFT LCD display with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. You don’t have to be hesitated to purchase Acer cheap laptop since it has already quality verified before sent back to the market. Acer laptop sale offers you the chance to get the netbook of your cream which normally charged at quite expensive cost to a lower one with similar quality.

Those Acer laptop computers are supported by 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, ), a 160GB hard drive for digital storage and 1GB DDR2 533MHz memory, has a SD Card reader completed with the Multi-in-one media card reader, plus three USB 2.0 ports. This Acer laptop also has quite loaded software which makes it very suitable for those who need simple and affordable Netbook with to support the mobile productivity needs.

As we see some Acer Aspire one customer reviews say this Netbook can do it. I have gaming-powerhouse as a desktop (Thanks Tiger) for everything beyond what this Netbook can do. This household has both the 8.9” and 10.1” models; both have been great. When they are not side-by-side I would say they both were the same size; but when I use the 8.9” the screen seems to small, but the feel is totally different with the 10.1”, it feels just right. Well, you may see more Acer Aspire one customer reviews on TigerDirect.

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A unique robotic hand by name of RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments) has been developed by the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.

RAPHaEL is able to firmly hold objects which are as heavy as a can of food or as fragile as a raw egg, but handy enough to gesture for sign language.

This is fully articulated robotic hand is powered by a compressor air tank at 60 psi and a novel accordion type tube actuator. Microcontroller commands operate the movement to coordinate the motion of the fingers.

This air-powered design is what makes the hand unique, because it does not require the use of any motors or other actuators, the grasping force and compliance can be easily adjusted by simply changing the air pressure.

The grip originates from the extent of pressure of the air. A low pressure is used for a lighter grip, whereas a higher pressure allows for a stronger grip. The compliance of compressed air also helps in the grasping as the fingers can naturally follow the curve of the grasped object.