Abbreviating URL's

Did you know that you can abbreviate URL's? Well, not actually abbreviate them, but you can shorten them.

 

Have you ever run across a URL filled with percent signs and underscores and equal signs? Something that looks like this:

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=0D1ceB_DfBIC&dq=krugman+wells&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=QB-DZ-Yp5z&sig=9i-ysw8CWcJl8UkRF3T-iTIpXQ4&hl=en&ei=sbOdSZPwNJzgM9e3xI0F&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result

 

This could be copied and pasted in a browser, but what if it had to be typed? Here's a solution that is (say it with me) FREE! Go to TinyURL.com and paste in this long URL and it will be converted to something much more manageable, in this case it would be: http://tinyurl.com/aaqu4s Either URL will take you to the same place but isn't http://tinyurl.com/aaqa4s a lot easier to use?

 

So join the movement to stamp out the use of &'s and %'s in URL's and make them tiny.