When I started working at home I realized how inconvenient it was to not have a fax machine (we don’t have a land line – but our printer can fax…). I spent ages searching for a fax tool that would let me do everything with PDFs online. Today I find a link to Drop.io fax on Lifehacker.

Drop.io itself is a pretty neat service:

Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called “drops.”

The service has no email signup and no “accounts.” Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want. To make a drop just click the big red button that says ‘drop it’

Adding fax, just makes it that much cooler!

You can now fax documents directly into and directly out of your drop, for free.

No more fax machines, or expensive online fax services. Faxing just shouldn’t be that hard – and it should be free. With drop.io it is both easy and free.

I was working on some Google Docs today and noticed a little New! icon in the top corner. I clicked it only to find this:

Looks like we can now edit our Google Docs offline – I’ll have to play with this before my next Office 2.0 class.

I have written a bunch about this handy tool – most recently I was happy to announce that a version for Mac was released. Now I’ve been pointed to an article about Evernote on Machinist.

Evernote is a forgetter’s dream, but the tool isn’t only for those of us gone mushy in the brain. In the same way that GPS forever changed our relationship to physical spaces, the permanent, constant archiving of both the monumental and the mundane in life will surely alter how each of us navigates the social realm. During a recent interview, I asked Libin whom he considers his target market. In the mode of a TV pitchman, he answered, “Everyone wants a better memory.” And yet this makes sense: Everyone forgets, and Evernote makes it so you never have to.

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Our team has a real affinity for free-spirited types, and so we spend a lot of time thinking up ways to make Google Docs friendlier even to people on the go. If you’re one of those, you already know how you can access your Google Docs from anywhere, how nice it is to avoid having to email yourself files or back up docs with a thumbdrive, and how easily you can collaborate with others.

Of course there was a teeny thing missing: you needed an Internet connection to make Google Docs work for you. Now, for documents, that’s no longer true. As you’ll read on the Google Docs blog, starting today and over the coming weeks we’re rolling out offline editing access to word processing documents to Google Docs users. You no longer need an Internet connection when inspiration strikes. Whether you’re working on an airplane or in a cafe, you can automatically access all your docs on your own computer.

There is a video too.

[update] … and don’t forget about other office tools like ThinkFree which is offering a similar offline service. [/update]

Right now librarians are using wikis to keep track of their conferences and conference schedules (like mine for CIL2008), but Sched.org looks like it would be a much better alternative. Right now it only has a schedule for the SXSW conference, but the site does say “Coming Soonish: Create a Sched for your own event.” I can’t wait to see where this tool goes!

Check it out and read more at TechCrunch.