Do you know what tinyURL is? It’s a way to convert long links to short ones in case you are posting info on Twitter (140 Characters) or anything else that has a limit to the amount of characters you can type. Many times, when you copy and paste URLs, they can look messy and long.
Take for example a link to a book on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Layers-Complete-Photoshops-Powerful-Feature/dp/0321749588/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299169304&sr=1-2 ß That’s a link to a Photoshop book. This link is 126 characters long. It’s a bit too long to post if I were to try to share the link on Twitter.
Instead, I can copy and paste the address into TinyURL.com and get the following: http://tinyurl.com/65jl4fe ß This is a link to the exact same page, only much smaller (26 characters) and easier to share.
Start using tinyURL!
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