Shorten a Website Address Using tinyurl.com
Have you ever tried to share a website address with friends via email and because the site's URL is so long and convoluted it takes up half of your message? Yeah, we thought so. As you've probably noticed, this is especially true when trying to pass along product URLs from Amazon.com.
You may not know it but there's a way to shorten those URLs using a free service at tinyurl.com that shrinks the address for you.
Last summer, the New York Time's tech columnist David Pogue wrote a helpful post about the service in his Pogue's Posts blog. Check it out and start shrinking those big, ugly, web addresses.