You've found what you want more than anything for Christmas on Amazon.com of all places! Now you'd like to send a link to your favorite find to Santa @ north pole dot com. But your link contains 211 characters. It seems long and unwieldy and you're afraid the link will get broken when you email it and Santa will bring you another sweater vest.
TinyURL to the rescue! Copy and paste your LONG link into TinyURL (tinyurl.com). Select a customization if you'd like, or TinyURL will create a random one for you. My 211-character link was shorted to http://tinyurl.com/xmasliwi.
Try it out! Put the Tiny URL of something on your Christmas list in the comments.
By the way: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator....it's geek-speak for web address. Just in case you didn't know.
Good to know if I should ever need it!
ReplyDeleteI use this one all the time. It's ideal for Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI am really glad to know about this option
ReplyDeleteYup. Tiny URL. I use this.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Lonnie and Jane. This site is sooo useful and it has been beneficial when sending emails.
ReplyDeleteYes! Perfect for Twitter and texting.
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ReplyDeleteawesome website!
It has its uses. Particularly with those awful URLs that are out there. But URLs are supposed to be descriptive, so that resourses can be located in a uniform manner. If only that practice was actually followed.
ReplyDeleteIn e-mails I usually link the URL to a bit of descriptive text. But, this is really useful for anything that doesn't have that option.
ReplyDeleteI used it on a book from the Coe library catalog. The link was originally 314 characters! Now it is: http://tinyurl.com/2cqhdvm.
I didn't know about this. It's a great idea and I will definitely use it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what's different about this than just using Edit Link in Google Mail in which you can just 'hot link' (if that's the right term) to a url -- without having to go to another web site. Though I do love the Deluxe Surrey. Perhaps the College should use one for Alumni and Homecoming weekends rather than the extended golf cart.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lisa. I will definitely use this the next time I have a long URL to send.
ReplyDeleteI never realized that a URL could be too long. Guess I learned something! If you are sending my list to Santa, please include this tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/26j2bal
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