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Video Demonstrates The Danger Of Shortened URLs
5:30AM Adam Pash | Computer security company Symantec highlights just how easily shortened URLs can direct users to malicious sites and software in this video. More »
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Bit.ly Short-Links And Shares Files, No Hosting Needed
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Bit.ly, the web’s most popular link shortening service (thanks in big part to Twitter’s semi-official endorsement), has added the ability to quickly short-link pictures and other files through a partnership with media-sharing site yfrog. More »
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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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AtTheBigRiver.com Quickly Short-Links Amazon Products
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Want to turn your friend onto the unappreciated genius of Big Star? Send them to big-star.atthebigriver.com and they’ll land on Amazon’s search page, no gigantic URL or searching on your part required. AtTheBigRiver.com aims to make Amazon linking easy. More »
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Su.pr Shrinks And Shares Your Long URLs
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you want more from your URL shrinker than just a shorter URL, Su.pr—from the people behind StumbleUpon—left beta this week and brought a bunch of features with it. 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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Force Firefox Autofill To Behave By Removing “WWW” URLs
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Lifehacker reader Jordan loves the easy browsing that enabling auto-completion in Firefox provides, but found it just didn’t work for some sites. The fix? Removing bookmarks with “www” stuck at the front. 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 »
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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