![]() ![]() Now while there is a unit that can do wireless ( the ES-300) in the reviews some say it’s a little flakey. And that’s when I remember how hard it is to share a USB based device when it doesn’t want to be shared. And of course, me being a geeky gadget girl I would like to share the scanner with other computers on my peer to peer network. But while I don’t need it to scan into QuickBooks, as I don’t use that software at home, it just has nice easy scanning software that I can take my receipts and keep them in smaller electronic versions rather than in boxes of paper. So of course now I have to have one at home. Now it’s not 100% foolproof as you do have to review what it read but it certainly is more accurate than some of the AI chat things that Microsoft and Google love to demo these days. It’s a USB based scanner and I can easily scan in invoices we receive and there is an add on called the Epson smart scan accounting edition (for $99 for the software) that scans in the invoice, reads the document and then connects it to QuickBooks desktop or online and adds it to either bill pay or write a check. I’m a gadget girl and one of the things I got recently at the office is a small little desktop scanner called the Epson ES-200. organizing your tax data isn’t tonight’s topic). (As an aside, be kind to your accountant and get your information in early as well as recap your receipts on an Excel spreadsheet, Google docs, or Open office document to make it easier for them and cheaper for you, but I digress …. When you have to find those receipts and documents if you fill out a tax return. In the United States, it’s that time of the year we call tax time. Posted on Februat 00:40 CST by Susan Bradley So what technology did you rely on then, is now being slowly killed off? Did you rely on faxing? But that’s not to say in theory fax machines connected to network devices bring vulnerabilities, but then too do humans and keyboards. But as you can see from that, there are a lot of “ifs” in there. If, however you had a device like the Brooktrout in your workstation or server, and if the attacker knew your fax machine answered at a certain number, and if the attacker send a specially crafted signal to the fax/brooktrout board, then they could, in theory, do potential bad things on a network. Especially with fax machines connected to phone lines, they typically were not connected to the RJ45 connection. Typically as well the fax machine is less connected to the rest of the network. A fax machine also can’t be phished like a human can be with email. It’s just HARDER to hack into a fax machine versus a computer. It’s not protected as it transmits across phone lines. If someone intercepted that screeching sound transmission and had a receiving device listening, they could read that transmission. So here’s a dirty little secret about faxing. If you depended on faxing, this was the board to have. Back in the day there was a specific fax board that was the best computer faxing board around. Slowly but surely faxing is starting to die out. On the back of the unit they even still have a plastic hole where the fax machine USED to be connected with an analog fax board, but clearly the manufacturer deems faxing with a phone line to no longer be used. That just means it has a hook into an online faxing service. So if you go shopping for a multi-function fax machine – beware of devices that include “cloud fax”. I found it fascinating that there is a hole in the back of the unit where the faxboard USEDto be. Rather it means a trial for a cloud fax service and if you want it to continue you have to pay for it. Nor does it mean a free cloud faxing service built in. When it says “Cloud fax” it does NOT mean a plain old analog fax that uses a phone line. First off when it says it’s a “Multifunction Wireless Printer with Print, Copy, Scan and Cloud Fax Capabilities” beware on that last part. Now this unit is not for the faint of heart. So I replaced it with a Lexmark MC3426i unit. The other day I retired an HP color laser all in one that I had here at home because my Sister was about to chuck it out the window. Posted on Februat 22:05 CST by Susan Bradley ![]()
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