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VapURL Creates Self-Terminating Temporary URLs
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Need to create a URL that disappears into thin air? VapURL creates a shortened URL with a shelf life. More »
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Untiny Reveals The Destination In Shortened URLs
2:30AM Kevin Purdy | Shortened URLs aren’t going anywhere soon. Creating and sharing them is easy, but previewing where they’re leading you usually requires add-ons or software. Enter webapp Untiny with quick copy-paste or URL tweak solutions, and plenty of optional helper tools. More »
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Tini.us Creates Secure And Feedback Friendly TinyURLs
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Tini.us goes beyond the basics of URL shrinking with additional features like password protection and aggregated comments about the URL you just visited. More »
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Long URL Please Replaces Shortened Links With The Real Thing
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Long URL Please changes almost all shortened links in a page back to the real URL—so you can easily see where a link is really taking you. More »
FoxyURL Integrates One Click URL Shortening Into Firefox
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox: FoxyURL is both a URL shortening website and a Firefox extension that is fantastically simple to use. If URL shortening was any easier, it would have to be telepathic More »
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TinyURL Decoder Displays The Real Addresses Behind Shrunken URLs
12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox with Greasemonkey: TinyURLs and kin are great for packing links into small spaces, but not so great at revealing where the link will take you. Remove the mystery with TinyURL Decoder. More »
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Freaking Huge URL Lengthens Too Short URLS
12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | We’ve talked a lot about making URLs shorter, from Hive Five topics to fancy Unicode tricks. What about the times you want to make your URL bigger? More »
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Tinyarro.ws: Because TinyURLS Just Aren’t Tiny Enough
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Someone must have heard your complaints about TinyURLs not being tiny enough. Through the magic of Unicode, Tinywarro.ws makes your URLs even more minuscule. How tiny? Tinyarro.ws turned Lifehacker AU’s URL into http://➡.ws/ᘬⓨ, TinyURL by comparison turned our URL into —12 characters longer. What is this URL shrinking witchcraft? Tinyarro.ws replaces the alpha-numeric string used by other URL shrinking services with a single Unicode character. Unicode was developed as a way of representing symbols from world writing systems in a consistent way across computing platforms. Thanks to systems not based on the Latin alphabet, there are around 100,000 unique characters and symbols. The downside of that is you may end up with a symbol that means “horny turtle”, or other cryptographs of various hilarities or embarassments. When you click on a URL created with the service, you are directed to a splash page that shows the real URL you’re being forwarded to, which is a nice touch for those committed to work-safe browsing. Tinyarro.ws is free to use, doesn’t require a sign-up. Tinnyarro.ws [via Download Squad] More »
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SHUURL Creates Secure TinyURLs
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | SHUURL is a URL-shrinking service that adds some security styling to your links, providing everyone who clicks a security rating and thumbnail preview of the page you’re linking to. Every URL you shorten with SHUURL is compared to the database at the Web of Trust, a crowd-sourced website rating service. Anyone who follows the URL will stop first at the SHUURL website and see a thumbnail of the site you’ve linked to alongside its WoT rating. That preview is a nice protection layer, but some images may be too small to tell if its safe for work or not—something you can solve with the more standard TinyURL service by turning on previews. SHUURL is a free service, no sign-up required. SHUURL [via Download Squad] More »
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