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TinyURL is fast and free, and the URLs it makes never expire. Also available
is SnipURL (http://www.snipurl.com), which does pretty much the same
thing, but adds tracking features.
Find yourself making TinyURLs often? Just go to http://tinyurl.com/
#toolbar, and drag the TinyURL! link onto any browser??™s Links toolbar.
Thereafter, just click the button to create a TinyURL from the current page.
If you use Firefox, try TinyURL Creator (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/
firefox/addon/126?id=126, or better yet, http://tinyurl.com/574q9). To use
the tool, right-click an empty area of the current page and select Create Tiny
URL for this Page. A shortened URL is created on the spot and copied to
your clipboard for your immediate use. A similar tool, Maxthon (free from
http://www.maxthon.com), works with Internet Explorer and SnipURL.
So, what do you do when someone sends you a long URL? Well, you can
highlight it, copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl-C), and then paste it into Notepad
(Ctrl-V), where you can then proceed to carefully reassemble the URL
onto one line. (Take care to remove extraneous characters, such as spaces
and punctuation, while leaving the stuff that belongs intact.) Then, copy it
again and paste it back into your web browser??™s address bar. But if you??™re
using Firefox or SeaMonkey, you can streamline this process with the free
Open Long URL extension (https://addons.
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