totheGeek | Web Tools You can USE » URL Tools http://www.tothegeek.com Online Tools, Internet, Web based tools, Image, Video, Audio, online applications, Office tools. Fri, 08 May 2009 09:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Shortest URL shortening service at u.nu http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shortest-url-shortening-service-at-unu/ http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shortest-url-shortening-service-at-unu/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 11:40:05 +0000 admin http://www.tothegeek.com/?p=369 There are number of popular URL shortening services like TinyURL, bit.ly and many more. U.nu is latest and the shortest URL shortening web service on the internet. Even not so long URL like [http://www.tothegeek.com/] can be become shorter like [http://u.nu/3kk4].

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Just enter any URL is the box provided and hit the shrink it button. You will get shrinked URL: the direct shortened URL, HTML code and forum BBcode. Checkout shortest URL shortening at u.nu

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]]> http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shortest-url-shortening-service-at-unu/feed/ 0 Shorten URL & password protect online with 2pl.us http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shorten-url-password-protect-online-with-2plus/ http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shorten-url-password-protect-online-with-2plus/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:06:49 +0000 admin http://www.tothegeek.com/?p=361 There are number of URL shortening and snipping web services with TinyURL.com being most famous. 2pl.us web service allows you to shorten long URLs and even password protect them enabling you to share shortened links with only specific people online.

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To get started: enter long URL, custom alias (optional) and password for the URL. You will get shortened URL in the form http://2pl.us/fgwuyi – when you open this URL, you need to enter correct password to access original URL. Add password protection to your shortened URLs with 2pl.us

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]]> http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shorten-url-password-protect-online-with-2plus/feed/ 0 Protect your email address from spam & be safe http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/protect-your-email-address-from-spam-be-safe/ http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/protect-your-email-address-from-spam-be-safe/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:28:30 +0000 admin http://www.tothegeek.com/?p=311 Email address shared in usual text form like yourname@yahoo.com can easily get mis-used. Email IDs can be extracted by email bots, which then start sending loads of spam emails. You can avoid all this by using free web service like Scr.im

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Instead of sharing email ID as plain text, you can share it in the form of short URL. For example, instead of joe@email.com type http://scr.im/joe. Short URL will contain your actual email ID, which anyone can visit and see the email ID. Checkout Scr.im to prevent email ID getting spammed and be safe!

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]]> http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/protect-your-email-address-from-spam-be-safe/feed/ 0 Share shortened Google Search URLs with Gog.is http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/share-shortened-google-search-urls-with-gogis/ http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/share-shortened-google-search-urls-with-gogis/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:48:19 +0000 admin http://www.tothegeek.com/?p=208 Gog.is provide a quick way to share any Google search URL. Just write http://gog.is and put the keywords in the url, like this: http://gog.is/clerks – this will be redirected to Google Search for keyword clerks [http://www.google.com/search?q=clerks]

From now on you can share Google search URLs by just typing http://gog.is followed by search keywords. Even URL format like http://gog.is/what/is/love also works. Checkout Gog.is

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]]> http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/share-shortened-google-search-urls-with-gogis/feed/ 0 Shorten URLs & Track clicks on them with Cli.gs http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shorten-urls-track-clicks-on-them-with-cligs/ http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shorten-urls-track-clicks-on-them-with-cligs/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:19:27 +0000 admin http://www.tothegeek.com/?p=92 Cli.gs is a URL Shortening or URL snipping service with analytics features. Enter any long URL and shorten it with a click of a button. You can see statistics of number of clicks of your URLs or cligs.

You can create a free account to track all your cligs without anyone else accessing stats of you cligs. Shorten URLs and track them with ease using Cligs.

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]]> http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/shorten-urls-track-clicks-on-them-with-cligs/feed/ 0 Convert Multiple Links into One Link with Shrink2One http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/convert-multiple-links-into-one-link-with-shrink2one/ http://www.tothegeek.com/archives/convert-multiple-links-into-one-link-with-shrink2one/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:31:29 +0000 admin http://www.tothegeek.com/?p=47 Shrink2One makes sharing of lot of links easy. It allows you to convert multiple URLs or weblinks into one shrink-ed link. Enter or paste different URLs in the box on the homepage and click on ’shrink now’ button.

You will get ’shrink one’ URL, which you can share with your friends online. This unique URL will list all the URLs originally entered by you. Nice way to share lot of URLs on forums and IM. Shrink2One

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