Tag: URL-SHORTENER

If you're tired of clicking on shortened URLs without knowing exactly what web site they're taking to you, Long URL Please can help. This Firefox add-on automatically converts most shortened URLs on any web site into old fashioned long and boring URLs. The extension supports 64 popular URL shortening services including TinyURL, Snipr, bit.ly, and Digg. Long URL Please attempts not to break your ...

The field of link-shortening services is getting a bit crowded these days, with new ones popping up seemingly every week. U.nu is one of the latest contenders, and its attractively short and easy to remember base url might help it catch on. A U.nu link is way easier to type out or read to someone over the phone than the unicode characters offered by tinyarro.ws, for example, and it's shorter than ...

After widespread complaints about Digg's new URL-shortener/toolbar, the DiggBar, Digg has responded and agreed to change the way the DiggBar behaves to address the problems people had with it. Number one on the list was the way the DiggBar framed other sites and used Digg's new URLs for everything, never revealing the URL of the actual destination site. Number 2 was the problem of DiggBar URLs ...

Sure, we've reported on some seriously miniscule URL shorteners before. Bit.ly and tr.im are both respectably lacking in length, and ought to work fine when you need to cram a link into a Twitter post. Tinyarro.ws takes the shrinking game to a whole new level, though, by using unicode characters to get even shorter addresses. Not only is the base link down to three characters and a dot -- ?.ws -- ...

After the whole clickjacking nightmare on Twitter, some of you might be looking for a better way to shorten (truncate) URLs. One good solution is provided by Shuurl. You can Shuurl at work in the screenshot above. Not only are users provided with a thumbailed image of the destination page, they're also tagged with Web of Trust-style safety icons. The coding is the same as atraffic signal: green ...

New URL-shortening services start up all the time. To compete in such a crowded field, they have to distinguish themselves from the pack with a novel feature. For 1link.in, that's multiple links shortened into one, with one click to open each of the links in new tabs. There's also a password option, and the ability to register so you can keep track of all your saved links. One advantage of ...

There are a lot of god URL truncators out there, like Snipr, Is.gd, and TinyURL. For a new service to stand out, it's got to bring something interesting to the table. Tr.im does just that. Apart from offering URLs that are about as short as you're going to get (8 characters on my tests), they've added a couple interesting features. For starters, Tr.im will truncate your link and automatically ...