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  • How I shorten URLs on a Mac

    These are the programs that you will need: Quicksilver and a browser. Pretty simple, eh?

    I doubt anyone who reads this blog does not know about TinyURL or other URL shorteners: snipurl, dwarfurl, and urlTea. I am sure there are others. I wanted to share with you how I shorten my URLs because I just recently learned about it. Perhaps I am a little slow on the uptake, but I am okay with that.

    Here’s what I do: Let’s say I want to share a link on Twitter, or send it in an email. There are two ways I do this. One is using the very handy Quicksilver, and the other is using a new URL shrinker I just recently learned about.

    For Quicksilver: First, I copy the URL of my website. Then I invoke Quicksilver (be sure to have the Web Searches module installed).

    Search Module

    Type a “ti” to get the TinyURL search up, and then tab twice and paste my link into the search field.

    Quicksilver URL

    When I hit enter, the following screen will appear, and with a quick highlight and copy, I can copy my new tinyurl URL. Pretty handy.

    TinyURL

    The even easier way is with a new website I just found: is.gd. When you get to this website, you need to drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar in either Firefox or Safari.

    is.gd

    Now, whenever you visit a page whose URL you want to shorten, you simply click the bookmarklet, and it shrinks your URL to as small as it possibly can be, then it highlights the result automatically, and you can quickly cut and paste it.

    is.gd done

    I use TinyURL when I want to right click and “copy link location” or I already have the link copied, and is.gd for when I am just casually browsing the web.

    Both of these web apps allow you to include a preview window hosted on their servers so that people can view them. For TinyURL you need to add a “preview.” to the beginning of any TinyURL generated URL, as you can see in the TinyURL image above. For is.gd, it is much simpler, you just add a hyphen (-) to the end of the address and it will give your viewer a preview. So, http://is.gd/46w- is what that would look like.

    Both these options will give you a way to shorten your URLs, especially those pesky Amazon.com links.

    Do you know of any faster or better ways to shorten URLs?


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