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Short LinksDon't make it hard on yourself.
Short links are cool for things like Twitter. A new site giving you short links: is.gd.
The way you shorten a link with is.gd is as follows.
- Copy the target address to your clipboard.
- Surf to is.gd.
- Paste the clipboard contents into the text field.
- Click the push button labeled 'Compress That Address!'
- Select the result on the new page you're taken to.
- Copy that selection back to your clipboard.
- Go back to wherever you started and paste your result in.
Couldn't be more difficult! There's a better way: the ACP Web Services.
- Select the URL you want shortened in your browser location bar.
- Click on your services menu to a URL shortener (bit.ly in this case).
- Automagically find yourself at the results page and 'Click to Copy'.
- Go back to wherever you started and paste your result in.
It's only half the work. If that. Don't have the ACP Web Servicess yet? Ah. Easy to fix.
- Surf to the ACP Web Services page.
- Download either the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version for 10.6. Or both.
- The AWS.service module is less than 25 KB on disk. That's it.
- Follow the instructions and put AWS.service where it's supposed to go.
- You got other programs there and reams of cool resources.
- Once you've done that, you're ready to rock.
- You don't need to repeat any of the above ever again.
Three URL shorteners are already included in the ACP Web Services, along with a URL expander; more good stuff will ship with the coming release.
See Also ACP Web Services (Download URLs at the Bottom)
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