Someone must have heard your complaints about TinyURLs not being tiny enough. Through the magic of Unicode, Tinywarro.ws makes your URLs even more minuscule. How tiny? Tinyarro.ws turned Lifehacker's URL into http://➡.ws/투, TinyURL by comparison turned our URL into http://tinyurl.com/3yw6ew&mdas...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I love links! And, of course, I love Twitter! So, it’s no wonder I enjoy checking out links on Twitter, and tracking them. Links are shared constantly on Twitter, and it becomes impossible to keep track of everything. How do you know wh...

by Stoney deGeyter Years ago dynamic websites posed significant problems for search engines. While the engines have come a long way since the early days of dynamic website development, there are still some key problems that arise. Google has gone public stating that you don't need to fix your dynami...

Not too very long ago, I was banging my head against the wall looking for a way to find what URL’s I had my Adsense ads showing on. It’s not hard to remember the URLs that you are currently doing upkeep and maintenance on, but the URLs of revenue share forums (forums.digitalpoint.com) an...

Flat- or tree- URL scheme for a site redesign? I am in the process of migrating a site (from Typo3 to Django, yay), and need to make a decision about URL schemes. The site previously had URLs of the kind: "/category/name_of_entry". However, the categories have moved around, with old ones b...

I'm writing a shell script to take a webpage and convert it into a text file. I'd appreciate tips as to how to store URLs, save the file with the URL's title as its name, and also just general tips as to how to improve the script and/or achieve the process better. Specific questions inside. I'd like...

Right now there are lot of services which allows you to shorten long URLS when you want to share it with your friends and family. Shortening is really nice technique as it saves people wasting time to read all those URLs and even it does not break in Emails.  However  the problem comes when you wa...

When it comes to shortening a long URL, most people will think of TinyURL or one of the hundreds of other URL shortening sites. Most, if not all, of these sites take a long URL and generate a short URL based on their domain name. For example, if you use TinyURL to shorten the long URL http://makeuse...

"Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo." Once you have regular expressions mastered, and understand rewriting URLs using the Apache module, then keep this cheat sheet around for quick reference....

The latest entry in the URL-shortening service is Tr.im, and while there are a number of features that might make you switch from reader favorite TinyURL, the most compelling is that with so few characters in the service's domain name, it creates really tiny URLs. A quick test for shortening the add...