Short links are all the rage on the Internet nowadays. As the popularity of Twitter grows, the popularity of creating links that use less and less of our precious 140 characters grows with it. Most short link services do not offer much in the way of options. You create the link and send it, and [...]
Shortened links have become a standard in our social media use. We like them because they are easy to create, share, and promote. However, it can also be a tool for hackers and fraudsters who use these short URLs to hide malware or dodgy webpages. Fortunately, we have Decryptlinks. This simple tool lets you securely [...]
DyingLinks is the ideal way to create semi-permanent short links to URLs. It’s a very straightforward service with no login which allows you to set up redirection links which expire according to a set of pre-defined rules. You can set up links which will not work until a future date, which expire after a certain [...]
Do you have something that you want to share and find out if people are actually clicking on it? Maybe you have a file you are sharing with a friend and you want to see if he clicked the link to download it. Perhaps you want to see if a link you shared on Twitter [...]
Today the Internet is all about short links. They allow you to share links on Twitter without going over the very limited character count. They make it easy to share the cool things you find on the Internet. However, what if you want to share two links that are similar? Should you generate two short [...]
When you see a shortened URL online, you cannot figure out where it leads before actually clicking on it. This can lead to unexpected situations if you are clicking the links at work; at times it can even compromise your data since the link can lead to a malicious website. Here to help prevent that [...]
While conducting research on a topic, you would gather URLs of online sources relevant to the subject. To group these URLs together, you could create a folder in your browser’s bookmarks. But sharing this folder with others presents a challenge. Here to help you easily create shareable groups of URLs is a web service called [...]
Using your phone’s keypad to type in long URLs is very inconvenient. There have been apps that send links directly from your computer to your phone but synch issues can cause problems. Here to provide you with an extremely simple way to open up long URLs on your phone is a tool called ShortEnuf. ShortEnuf [...]
Literally hundreds of URL shrinking services have launched over the last couple of years and most of them offer nothing unique or different. In this crowd, VyuMe (pronounced View Me) is among the very few that do stand out due to unique features. In addition to offering a very good URL shrinking tool, VyuMe also adds a [...]
If you are having a religious discussion with people online, it is always wise to support your perspectives with the exact references. If you are referencing the Bible, you should be able to show your friends which verse you are talking about to support your argument. Here to help you reference Bible verses online is [...]
While writing an SMS message or a post on an online forum and social network, you want to keep your text as little as possible. This makes it problematic to share multiple URLs in a single message. Thankfully there is a web service that squeezes multiple long URLs into a single shortened one. This service [...]
If you are on a webpage that has a long URL, then sending that URL to your iPad can be a problem. One solution could be to shorten the URL and type the shortened version in your device’s browser. But shortened URLs remain active for a long time, something that is undesired by some users. [...]
To easily share links on social networks you normally employ various URL shortening web apps. For each link you want shortened, you have to revisit the web app and pass your URL through it. Here to offer you batch-shortening of multiple URLs is a web service called KiTl URL Shortener. In addition to letting you [...]
Have you started using Google+? If you have, then you’ll know that the profile URLs look quite ugly, and are pretty hard to remember. While you can always use URL shorteners like bit.ly to create a short URL for your Google+ profile, getting a vanity URL from a service dedicated to Google+ is much better. [...]
While the phone apps you share websites through might let you shorten the long URLs, they will not let you save the history of your shortened URLs. This makes it a bit difficult to rediscover a page you shared. Here to help resolve the issue is a phone app called D Bitly. D Bitly is [...]
Since they are very long, magnet links are difficult to share. These links cannot be shortened using traditional URL shorteners. For them, you need to use a web service called MgnetMe. MgnetMe is a URL shortener specifically for magnet links. It works exactly like a traditional URL shortener: you paste in the original magnet link [...]
If you intend to share a bunch of cool websites, which you’ve discovered lately, with a friend, then sending those via email looks like the easiest thing to do. But it isn’t convenient to click on them one by one and open in browser tabs, especially if there are a lot of them. BridgeURL solves [...]
If you use Twitter regularly then your home screen is probably crawling with shortened URLs. The trouble with such URLs is that you have no clue of where they lead to. To find this out without visiting the URL, you can use short link expander LinkPeelr. LinkPeelr is a free web service that expands the [...]
Do you need to find out your IP address? Or do you need to shorten a URL? Perhaps you want to paste something on a webpage to use it later. These and many other handy web services are offered on the impressive website 1dl.us. 1dl.us is a free to use website that contains a collection [...]
With so many URL shortening services coming up, the chances of malware and spam has increased tenfold. You never know whether a TinyURL you see on Twitter is safe to visit or leads to a malware infected or NSFW webpage. Well, URLX-Ray solves this problem by displaying the original link without even clicking it. There [...]