Nerd corner - tinyurl.com

[Mountain Goat]

This is seriously useful little tool:

If you've got a 'longish' url like:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/offers.adp ... st=&q=&qc=

(try and repeat that to your granny on the 'phone '...just wait, dear, I'll go and sharpen my pencil....') then hop along to:

www.tinyurl.com

copy/paste it in there, and you end up with:

http://tinyurl.com/lahre

which is a bit better for granny.

Don't know how it works, but it does. Or does everyone know about it?

Goat

[vrooje]

I've definitely seen it around, but I've never used it.

[Giddy Goat]

Cor! What a whizz kid! Is there no stopping your research capabilities Goat?

[ravetildon]

What an amazing tool. It's especially useful for putting the tiny URL into emails.

[Giddy Goat]

I've been using it since MG pointed us to it, but very occasionally it won't work for a recipient.

Could be me I suppose!