Tiny URLs
How does one handle those looooong Web links?
Are you tired of posting URLs in emails and on discussion groups only to have it break when sent, which causes the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together?
Solution: My friend, Andrew Darlow, recently told me how to convert those long URLs to short ones using TinyURL.com
Example: Here’s the URL link to Epson’s Web site for the page that lists the drivers and downloads for their Epson Stylus Pro 3800:
This URL has a length of 134 characters, but within just a few seconds the TinyURL.com Web site was able to convert that long URL to a length of only 25 characters:
... a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. The service is free, and it only takes seconds.
Postscript: Here’s a 212 character Yahoo Maps URL (I’ll spare you the actual link) to a map of my office in Salt Lake City that TinyURL converted to only 25 characters: http://tinyurl.com/2hz5s6
Posted by Royce Bair on 04/18 at 10:56 AM
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