There are many websites which developers have designed in such a way that their URL depends on singular words or phrases. For example, many dictionary websites show you the meaning of a word after you simply add that particular word to the URL of that particular dictionary website. This function can be used to quickly [...]
Marketylink is a free vanity URL builder and online campaign management service for website owners and online marketers. But it goes further than a simple vanity URL service and offers a wide range of complementary services like link shortening, QR codes and Google Analytics support . For the uninitiated, vanity URLs is a way to [...]
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 [...]
Most power-users and savvy Internet surfers handle a bunch of tabs at the same time. However, while we can manage and take care of our browser tabs, there is still no quick way to open a list of your favorite websites from one page without using a plugin. Enter OpenUpper. This tool lets you generate [...]
Most power-users and savvy Internet surfers handle a bunch of tabs at the same time. However, while we can manage and take care of our browser tabs, there is still no quick way to open a list of your favorite websites from one page without using a plugin. Enter OpenUpper. This tool lets you generate [...]
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 [...]
If you use Firefox as your main browser and also have eyesight problems that require you to see bigger fonts wherever possible on the computer, then you’d like this add-on. The name pretty much says it all. It helps you make the fonts in the browser address bar bigger in size. It makes it easy [...]
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. [...]
Do you want to share multiple websites in a single message but are running short on text space? This is a situation normally encountered while sharing on social networks or while squeezing your links into a single phone text message. Here to help you in this regard is a web service called HiperURL. HiperURL is [...]
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 [...]
If you have a list of site URLs that you want to open, clicking on them individually can be time consuming. Opening them would consume even more time if the list in an app does not detect URLs, such as Notepad. Here to help you quickly open URLs in such a list is a tool [...]
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 [...]
People working on a project together often share relevant web URLs with one another. If the number of URLs is large, it becomes inconvenient to copy each one individually and paste it in your browser’s address bar. Web URL Opener offers a very simple solution to this problem. Web URL Opener is a free to [...]
You might remember a service called BridgeURL which we talked about here. It basically facilitated the sharing of multiple links all at once by combining them into a single link. Tabulate is a Chrome extension that uses this service to create a single, all-in-one BridgeURL link for all the open tabs in the current Chrome [...]