Shorter URL’s

Have you ever tried to send someone a URL only to find it is about 4,000 characters long (well, maybe not quite), that wraps around, breaking up the link and generally making a nuisance of itself?


One of my favorite tricks is to use the TinyURL service at www.tinyurl.com. Simply copy that big long URL from your web browser, and surf to www.tinyurl.com. From here you can paste the URL in a box (to make it tiny). You even add an alias that you chose. So something like:


http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/business/server/express/?CPID=STBANNACAFY11Q1000000113300000930012001BAN032


Becomes


http://tinyurl.com/FreeBESXPress


Now you can simply paste this much more manageable URL/Web link instead. (Helps reduce spelling errors too!)