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TinyURL.com is a neat little site where you can submit a really long URL to make tiny. When someone clicks the TinyURL link (or pastes it in their address bar), they are briefly taken to the TinyURL.com page, then instantly redirected to the appropriate site. It’s a real simple concept, but it’s also really handy, especially when you’re posting a long URL into an email where the text wrap might break it.

For example, this gargantuan 322 character URL:

http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=157+E+Rosemary+St,+Chapel+
Hill,+NC+27514+(Hell)+%4035.914810,-79.054805&saddr=Micr
osoft+Corp,+1+Microsoft+Way+%23+8,+Redmond,+WA+98052+(Micros
oft+Corp)+%4047.644154,-122.118906&f=li&hl=en&dq
=hell&cid=37062500,-95677068,15779228992678768709&ll
=54.876607,-93.691406&spn=43.504226,119.882812

… becomes this a sleek and paste-friendly one.

http://tinyurl.com/f7enh

Only 24 carbs chars!

I use that particular TinyURL link to give directions all the time. :) Very handy.

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"TinyURL.com" was posted on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 and is filed under Technology.