Can I shrink a really long URL to make it easier to share? ~ Ask The Admin

Sunday, May 04, 2008

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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