send URLs — to funny sites , nurse videos , or of import entropy — via electronic mail has become almost a internal interest ; whohasn’tsent someone to a Web site ? This simple undertaking has dramatically changed how we share data : you just paste an interesting uniform resource locator into an email ( or , even more commodious , habituate the “ electronic mail this connection ” feature of most WWW browsers , which mechanically open a unexampled email message and pastes the link ) and broadcast the message ; when the recipient view the substance , a simple press the tie train him or her to the must - see site .
But anyone who ’s ever received such a content via e-mail knows that it does n’t always forge as planned ; often the URL is so long that it spans more than one line , and many email clients , and even Web - ground e-mail services , have worry figuring out where the uniform resource locator ends and regular textual matter begins .
One resolution is for the sender to always let in the full URL ( includinghttp:// ) and to shut in that uniform resource locator in angled brackets (
As a resolution of all this scuffle , many people turn toTinyURL.comwhen sending links . You paste your long , tangled tie into a form on the TinyURL site and select the “ Make TinyURL ! ” clit , and the site pay you a URL short enough that it ’s guaranteed not to bankrupt across multiple business line . ( When someone clicks the URL , they ’re automatically redirected to the Web land site to which you designate to institutionalize them . ) For lesson , using TinyURL.com , this :
becomes this :
( you could rather send the “ preview ” form of the URL , http://preview.tinyurl.com/2zzypk , which take the receiver to a page on the TinyURL site that show where the link will take them ; they can then decide whether or not to go on to it . )
TinyURL is a clever resource that takes the hassle out of sending URLs via email . Unfortunately , it add hassles of its own . You have to imitate the destination URL , go to TinyURL.com in your browser app , paste the URL , select the Make TinyURL button , copy the result “ Tiny ” universal resource locator , and then paste that universal resource locator into your email message . Not a horrible routine , but certainly not a smooth workflow . Rachel Blackman ( a.k.a . , Riverdark Studios ) has made the outgrowth much uncomplicated withTinyURL Service 0.2 (; free ) . ( Thanks to Scott atMacUserfor find this one ! )
As its name implies , TinyURL Service is a Mac OS X Service ; to install it , you dismiss it into /Library / Services ( to make it available to all users on your Mac ) or ~/Library / Services ( to qualify its employment to only your own account ) . After logging out and then back in , TinyURL Service will be available to all Services - aware coating .
You use TinyURL Service in one of two ways . If you ’ve already pasted your too - long uniform resource locator into an email message ( or any other schoolbook field ) , you just foreground the desired uniform resource locator and then chooseApplication Name- > Services - > Shrink URL ; after a couple seconds , the full URL will be supervene upon by the lilliputian version .
or else , you’re able to save the step of pasting the URL in an email message first by highlighting that uniform resource locator in , say , your Web web web browser ’s speech field , and then choosingApplication Name- > Services - > Shrink URL to Clipboard ; this commute the URL to a Tiny edition right then and there , and then copies the lilliputian URL to the Clipboard for glue anywhere you wish . ( The basic Shrink URL control has a keyboard shortcut , Shift+Command+T , but I was n’t able to get it to turn ; you may have better luck by assign your own crosscut — to either or both commands — using Service Scrubber . )
Unfortunately , the elbow room Services study , TinyURL Service ca n’t “ Tiny - fy ” a URL that ’s on the Clipboard ; it has to be highlighted text edition in a Services - aware software . But TinyURL Service is still a handy add - on for letting you check that your e-mail recipients can easy visit the links you send — without requiring you to imitate / paste / surf / copy / paste to do so .
TinyURL call for serving - aware covering and is a Universal binary .
