PageSender is 5 years old!
(That’s like 50 in shareware years!)
PageSender was launched 5 years ago today. The “fax software that really works” was released by Smile Software (the “smile” in SmileOnMyMac) at a time before fax capability was built into Mac OS X. Though faxing was later added in OS X 10.3 (Panther), PageSender’s full feature set, stability and excellent customer service made it the favorite of reviewers and users. As Macworld put it, “one application is a shining light in a field dominated by dim products.”
What’s a birthday without a cake? And candles! And singing! (And exploitation of children for commercial purposes!)
(View the video at YouTube.)
Coming May 8th: PageSender 4 with some great new features, including spam fax filtering and PDF cover pages!
(Those who know me will recognize the sacrifice I made getting a photogenic white-frosted cake, rather than chocolate…)
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:38 am
Happy Birthday, PageSender! Love the video. My kids will do anything for cake.
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:47 am
Yeah, uh…think you could fax me a piece? : )
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 am
Great news and a great surprise! PageSender is a real workhorse. I look forward to trying out the new features of version 4.0. Happy Birthday to me!
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
That was absolutely adorable. Happy Birthday Page Sender! Here’s to many more
May 8th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Ah Great! - we use pagesender, Disclabel and PDFpen and we hope you grow in the next 5 years!
May 8th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Thanks, Wayne, Chris, Edward, Jane and of course Peg (my sister and mom of my favorite film stars!). It was a great birthday. And now PageSender 4 is out! Maybe we need another cake to celebrate…
May 10th, 2007 at 8:59 am
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May 15th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Happy Birthday. I think it’s great that you reward your in-house development team with cake, and may I say they look like the best behaved and happiest bunch of code warriors this side of Finland. But is it just me, or are they getting younger and younger?
May 18th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Cake is the fountain of youth, as far as I’m concerned.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Help!
I am trying to send a fax from “Preview”. The fax goes to the out box. I get message, “Waiting for Modem (in Use)” I have tried aborting, It will abort but then message reappears. Modem indicates it is “idle” until I select a fax in the out box.
I have tried rebooting. I have tried removing modem. I have done a reinstall of 4.2.2. I have insured that the fax modem for Apple’s fax is not selected in the printer preference.
Seems to have started after last software update from Apple.
Any ideas”
March 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
@Ken: It’s best to send your tech support questions to support@pagesender.com — you’ll get a prompt and helpful answer.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Problem was fixed. Great support from PageSender Tech. Modem was set wrong in the preferences.
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