General Tips & Info FAQ

Another way to make shorter urls

There's also shorl which gives you a mnemonicised code (rather than the other two's alphanumerics) and a password. The password is used to access stats on how many people have visited your shorter URL (not for limiting who can visit your shorl).

Shorl has a nice bookmarklet feature, you save the bookmarklet in your bookrmarks or favorites, then when you're at a site with a really long url, just click on the bookmarklet and you'll get a popup window with the shorl url.

(Thanks to Iain Truskett for this info!)