Can I shrink a really long URL to make it easier to share?
They say necessity is the mother of all inventions, except for the bastard children of people looking to be lazy and productive.
Tinyurl has been around for a long whiles now and many of you probably use it on a daily basis and don’t even know it. Websites use it to hide links, people use it to make it easier to tell someone a link over the phone as well as using it to overcome the limitation of how many characters you can type in a mobile browser.
It is very straight forward and best of all it is free. As we say at Ask the Admin - Free is for me!
Just go on over to http://www.tinyurl.com Input the link and boo yah you are returned with a short link.
Use it how you will. For good or evil – to get porn links through email filters, freak out your friends with unexpected goatse or something equally as disturbing (Rick Rolling) … Any ideas?
Do you use tinyurl or something similar?
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about 4 years ago
yeah that is a cool website..
I have been using this for quite a long time now and I love the service.
The special thing that we can use them to hide our referral links too. (I dot do that although!)
you got a cool blog. but why you do not have comments as pop-up??
the page reloading thing is not good man..
please do have a look at my blog and if possible please subscribe to my feeds. I am sure you will love the stuff!!
about 4 years ago
There is something out there even better than TinyUrl. It is called DecentUrl. It is better because it makes the URL much shorter but lets you keep a small part of the original URL so that the clicker has some clue of where they are going. Give it a go.
about 4 years ago
@KneeCarrot – I am impressed. This is awesome. How long have they been around for or at least how long have ou been using them? Do you have any affiliation?
@CompuWorld – What? Pop up comments? Page reloading thing?
Am I missing something here? Let The Admin know man… Get at me in the comments.
about 4 years ago
aah…the tinyurl. I remember something funny about this. It actually caused a lot of problems when I used to work for HP tech support. Some guys used this for giving customers(users..old habits don’t die) lengthy URLs. These were stored and repeatedly given. But, the URLs expires after sometime which are sometimes reassigned to some other URLs. Once such case got the user to a porn site.Oops…..It was a funny thing later. But, the poor guy was fired(I was told).
Also, while I am it,do you use Windows PE for deployment? I was thinking maybe, an article about that would be a great read. What say admin?
about 4 years ago
@sRiki – good story. Pe deployment coming up… stay tuned.
about 3 years ago
There's a Firefox extension for this, it's pretty handy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12…“> “>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12…
about 3 years ago
There's a Firefox extension for this, it's pretty handy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12…“> “>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12…
about 3 years ago
http://teckb.com/turl/ “>http://teckb.com/turl/
If you register in this site you have stats with the number of visits.
about 3 years ago
http://teckb.com/turl/ “>http://teckb.com/turl/
If you register in this site you have stats with the number of visits.
about 3 years ago
I work for one of the big computer manufacturing companies in level one tech support. We were just forced to stop using tinyUrl's and any other similar program due to the fact that they recycle the links. Eventually.
So say you have a TinyUrl pointing to a Dell Latitude Main Board drivers page and you decide to save the link and use it again if you ever reformat your computer.
Then 2 years later you open up that dell chat transcript or email and click the link – and you get gay bestiality porn because the link got reused. So might not want to save the tinyUrl and might want to bookmark the destination page.
about 3 years ago
I don't know if that was you hinting that you work for Dell but I have heard the same thing from HP tech reps. And I have seen it happen to end losers over here at the office. But I find it an invaluable resource during the day when talking to idiots that type dot when I say dot com.