Here are 3 apps which help you in sharing things easily by making them short and tiny.
1. TinyUrl
I’m sure almost all of you reading this know about TinyUrl. It’s a url shortening service and it shot into fame recently when it became an extremely useful way to share links in Twitter. There’s also a nice bookmarklet which you can add to your browser toolbar and it lets you shorten the urls in 2 clicks.
2. TinyPaste
Another very useful service, especially for twitter users who have the 140 characters limitation while conveying a message. TinyPaste lets you type the long text in a box and creates a url linking to that long text. Hence you can now easily share long sentences on twitter. There’s also a nice Firefox add on which adds TinyPaste to the mouse right click.
3. TinySong
TinySong lets you type in a song and create a tiny sharable link which enables you to share that song easily with your friends. Once you type in a song and hit enter, it shows the relevant searches and then you need to click on the particular song to create the link. The song search is powered by Grooveshark, a cool music sharing website.
Hope the above mentioned services help you in some way or the other.
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i don’t know about the tinysong
i will try some jands on on tinysong
TinyURL does help to make the long url shorter, which makes it easier to share.
But, at the same time, there is a downside to this. We have to be very careful not to click on tinyurl from unknown source, as you don’t know what you are really clicking on until it redirects to the original page.
Ramesh
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Interesting List.
I’ve used the first two, not the third.
@Ramesh
Yes, that’s right. You might want to read an article I wrote on the very same topic here:http://aravindjose.com/blog/2008/05/09/how-to-be-safe-while-using-and-clicking-on-shortened-urls/
and if it is a TinyURL, you may check ‘to-where’ the URL points by making use of the “Preview” feature of TinyURL.
that is to know where a TinyURL like tinyurl.com/1a2b points to, go to preview.tinyurl.com/1a2b
and if it is “snurl”, go to peek.snurl/(link_code)
Just a word of caution: I hate TinyUrl because you have no idea where they are leading you to. You can’t trust them. If I click on a link, I want to know where I am going!
http://decenturl.com/ is a lot better because it tells you what domain you are going to.
:O i never knew about tiny paste looks nice and usable
@sharfah yeah actual link is alot better lets say you want to share link here in this commenting screen and you post a long long link and the text breaks poor frames it will then come handy. http://decenturl.com/ you still dont have idea before clicking it ?! its all risky be with security tools and feel safe better idea
Good list! Some other similiar tools to tinyurl if you wish to try:
Fireurl.com
Is.good and
Bit.ly
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